another day, another mass shooting

iaparent
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:29:45 +0000

@catahoula That is the misnomer about Chicago, staying out of Chicago does not lessen the chance immeasurably, staying out of certain areas of Chicago does lessen the chance but not Chicago as a whole.

I travel to Chicago for work 5 days a week, along with about 300,000 others (just on the train) and that daily venture to Chicago does not heighten my chances of being shot. I would argue that I am more likely to be shot in my affluent suburb than I am to be shot in Chicago and I am in Chicago over 70% of the days in the year.

The Chicago violence is not something that crosses my mind. It is fairly isolated in a couple of areas and those 300,000 daily commuters have no reason to go to those areas. The current administration makes it seem as though Chicago is the wild west and there is a gun toting bad guy around every corner but it is just not the case. St. Louis has a higher per capita homicide figure and has a similar population (311,000) to the population of suburban commuters to Chicago. Your logic would indicate that to lessen the chance of being shot it would be advantageous for everyone to move out of St. Louis and leave it a ghost town, as it is much more dangerous than people giving up their commute to Chicago.

I don’t mean to single you out but the misinformation about Chicago really rubs me the wrong way when painted with the broad brush and seems awfully close to the fake news line.