Chicago gun violence claims more lives



Three people were killed and 12 wounded Wednesday afternoon
into early Thursday in Chicago.


Gun violence in Chicago took the life of three people and injured 12 others Wednesday afternoon into early Thursday.

The three people killed were shot in separate incidents. They were all males and in their 20s, reported the Huffington Post.

Twelve other people were wounded in other non-fatal shootings across the troubled city.

According to an analysis by Bloomberg, gun violence costs Chicago nearly $2.5 billion a year. In 2012, the troubled city saw more than 500 homicides.

Gun violence in the U.S. came under spotlight after a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14.

In the Newtown shooting, which was described as the deadliest rampage at an elementary school in U.S. history, 20 first-grade children and six adults were killed.

According to an interactive project between slate.com and the anonymous creator of the Twitter feed @GunDeaths, more than 5,720 people across the U.S. have been killed by guns since the deadly shooting in Newtown.

According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 32 people are murdered with guns in the U.S. every day and 140 Americans are treated for a gun assault in an emergency room.

Moreover, the Brady Campaign says that gun violence in the U.S. costs Americans $100 billion a year.

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Published on Jun 7, 2013
While violent crime in most metropolitan areas in the US has gone down over the last decade, Chicago has seen a frightening uptick in shootings and gang-related violence. In 2012 the city boasted the highest murder rate in the country. It's gotten so bad there, that residents have given the Windy City a new, war-zone-inspired nickname—Chiraq. Chicago counts over 100,000 gang members organized into subgangs, factions, and cliques all vying for control over city blocks and settling disputes, either real or imagined, with a pull of the trigger. What's more, getting handguns in the outlying suburbs is about as difficult as finding popcorn at the movies. Thomas Morton embeds with police, and with gang members in the Englewood neighborhood, to find out how things have gotten so out of control in our nation's Second City and why most of the country is turning a blind eye to this unfolding urban nightmare.





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