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At least 15 individuals were wounded and another six killed, during violence in gun-controlled Chicago over the weekend.

Ten people were shot–two fatally–on Sunday during a memorial for a Chicago man who had been shot and killed earlier in the day.

Over the weekend the SUV in which Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson travels was broken into and the contents tossed about.

Gun-controlled Chicago already has yielded more than 1,000 shooting victims as of April 27 of this year alone.

Twenty-nine people were shot, one fatally, in gun-controlled Chicago in the 18 hours that began Saturday morning at 2:30 a.m.

On Thursday a mother was looking out the window of the Nadia Fish and Chicken restaurant when a gunman opened fire, killing both her sons.

On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon and 45 other U.S. Attorneys appointed by Barack Obama to resign.

Chicago gangs have targeted gun shipments in Norfolk Southern rail yard on three different occasions in as many years.

An NRA ad released February 28 recounts myriad times the New York Times avoided reporting the “truth” during national embarrassments overseen by Democrats and suggests that America has now stopped seeking “truth” from the NYT.

February is coming to a close and there has already been over 500 shooting victims in Chicago for 2017.

It is Valentine’s Day in gun-controlled Chicago and there have been over 400 people shot in the city year-to-date.

The surge in shootings that marked the early weeks of the new year continued, resulting in more than 300 people shot in the first 30 days of 2017.

Six persons were wounded–two critically–when gunfire erupted at a Chicago memorial for gun victims.

The number of shootings and murders January 1 through January 22, 2017, are higher than they were for the same time period in 2016.

Amid reports that lax prosecution is one of the chief enablers of Chicago gun crime, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois has worked “around the clock” against Chicago “gun violence.”

Chicago and gun control are so intertwined that the legacy of one is the legacy of the other. With that said, it is worth noting that “about 91 percent” of Chicago homicides in 2016 were committed with a firearm, according to the Chicago Tribune.

At first, the 2016 murder figures for gun-controlled Chicago drew attention by hitting 500, which was 32 higher than the total number of murders in 2015. Then the number of murders rose to 700, followed by a Chicago Tribune report that

Over 730 homicides were committed between January 1, 2016, and December 6, 2016 in gun-controlled Chicago.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend violence brings Chicago to nearly 4,000 shooting victims for the year. That figure includes fatal and non-fatal shootings.

Gun-controlled Chicago is fast-approaching 4,000 shooting victims year-to-date for 2016.

Seventeen people were shot and killed and 41 others wounded over the weekend in the gun-controlled Chicago.

Weekend violence similar to that which has been witnessed weekend after weekend throughout 2016 has now propelled gun controlled-Chicago past 600 homicides year-to-date.

Chicago police report ‘at least 19 people were shot’ and six persons killed from Friday night to Saturday morning in gun-controlled Chicago.

Homicides in gun-controlled Chicago so far this year are approaching 600 following another weekend of firearm-related death and mayhem.

In the run-up to Tuesday night’s Vice Presidential debate, The Daily Beast is suggesting VP candidate Mike Pence should be grilled on Indiana murders.

There were “358 shooting victims” in gun-controlled Chicago in September, which helped bring the total number of shooting victims to over 3,200 year-to-date.

Following Monday’s presidential debate Politifact did a fact-check on Donald Trump’s claim that there have been “thousands of shootings” in gun-controlled Chicago this year alone. On September 27 they published the results of their check by announcing that Trump’s statement was “true.”

Donald Trump was discussing the problems Democrat policies create for inner city blacks and Hispanics. He singled out the Democrat approach to policing–which excludes “stop and frisk” while substituting gun control in its place.

Gun-controlled Australia is witnessing gun crime at such high levels that state and federal officials are pushing new controls that will do everything from enact a second national gun buyback to increase sentences for gun crime and illegal gun possession.

Gun-controlled Chicago emerged from another weekend of gun violence on Sept. 12 with a total of 3,033 shooting victims year-to-date, which is roughly 50 more shooting victims than the city witnessed in all of 2015.

A New Orleans City Council committee has passed a package of new gun controls aimed at fighting the gun violence ravaging the city.

According to ABC News, this puts Chicago on track to tie–if not surpass–some high water marks for murder that the city hoped it would never see again. For example, the homicide rate “topped 600 in 2003”–a high point which is easily within reach this year. And the 513 killed in 2008 are almost certainly to be eclipsed by the end of 2016.

Fifty-seven people where shot and wounded and 10 were killed as another weekend came and went in gun-controlled Chicago.

Dozens were shot–four fatally–over the weekend in heavily gun controlled Chicago.

Since January 1, gun-controlled Chicago has had more homicides than Los Angeles and New York combined.

Chicago has many of the gun controls that Democrats insist are the solution to gun violence — and it also has 169 homicides year-to-date.