{"id":397827,"date":"2021-05-17T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=397827"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:26:09","slug":"violence-rips-through-chicago-proving-what-rush-taught-us-liberalism-solves-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/17\/violence-rips-through-chicago-proving-what-rush-taught-us-liberalism-solves-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence Rips Through Chicago, Proving What Rush Taught Us: Liberalism Solves Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: The national media\u2019s very busy covering the war between Israel and Hamas and of course the latest in the covid fights. They don\u2019t want to pay attention to anything else. Well, in Chicago over this weekend, 45 people shot, five people fatally in a 48-hour period. It\u2019s an alarmingly high number and an indication of the lawlessness and a public mentality that such crimes can occur without penalty.<\/p>\n<p>It got zero coverage in any of the television or print press outside of Chicago. So, again, it falls to America\u2019s Anchorman to highlight the atrocity of gun violence in Chicago. Here\u2019s a portion of a call that Rush took from a Chicago resident three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jose in Chicago. Jose, thank you for calling, and I appreciate your patience. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>JOSE: Yes. Hello. Uhh man, I\u2019ve been listening to you for four years, and man, you\u2019re a genius. The reason why I called was when you played the students about how they\u2019re so fearful, but yet nobody talks about how Chicago is, how there\u2019s so much mass killing. And mind you, this is one of the most strictest gun control city in all America.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_60a2ab365ad52c0001177106\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/60a2ab365ad52c0001177106.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&amp;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But yet there\u2019s more killing happening here than anywhere else. Really, what they\u2019re doing is taking guns from good people, you know, like from people that can protect themselves. I was born and raised in Chicago my whole life, and umm it\u2019s sad. But, you know, a lot of my friends you know I seen die since I was 9, at least 30, and uh man, I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m on this show.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You have lost 30 friends?<\/p>\n<p>JOSE: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thirty people you knew have died since you were nine years old?<\/p>\n<p>JOSE: And I\u2019m 26 right now.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wow. That\u2019s more than the Clintons.<\/p>\n<p>JOSE: About 30 people I grew up with and friends, you know. I mean, for me, it\u2019s more like you get numb to it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You have to. Of course, but, see, Jose, here\u2019s the thing. If anybody in this current argument were to bring up Chicago, it has been tried. They are shouted down. &#8220;You can\u2019t compare those. Those are two different things. Those are handguns in Chicago. This was an AR-15, you can\u2019t compare the two.&#8221; They won\u2019t let you because of course when you start comparing the two, Chicago\u2019s much worse, where nobody is doing a damn thing about it. Right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265408\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-022118-Chicago-Gun-Violence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-022118-Chicago-Gun-Violence.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-022118-Chicago-Gun-Violence-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>JOSE: Yeah, and that\u2019s the thing. Like, people want to talk about other places, about what\u2019s going on around the country. Let\u2019s talk about Chicago and let\u2019s talk about all the killing. And mind you, these are Hispanic and black neighborhoods. I mean, I don\u2019t know, like, to me that\u2019s like something, is there a reason why, like, oh, we shouldn\u2019t care because of that? It\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jose, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. I just have an interesting stat. I very much enjoy pointing out things to expose the phoniness of people. According to the FBI, knives kill far more people than rifles in America, and it\u2019s not even close. Recent stats from 2016 show that knives kill five times as many people as rifles in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>BRETT: Government at its core is responsible for just a few things. It really is. It\u2019s responsible for public safety on the local level. It\u2019s responsible for public safety. It\u2019s responsible for the maintenance of infrastructure &#8212; you know, sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic lights. It\u2019s responsible for an ability to enforce local ordinances and laws.<\/p>\n<p>But essentially, the task of government at the local level is a public safety mission. You pay taxes, you live in these neighbors, you are not being represented effectively by the government in Chicago. They take your tax dollars. I don\u2019t know what they do with them, but they\u2019re not using them to keep you safe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-397867\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051721-Crime-Scene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051721-Crime-Scene.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051721-Crime-Scene-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051721-Crime-Scene-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And then they\u2019re pushing the narrative that is popular only at Smith or at Berkeley or at NYU that you should defund the police. The very institution that helps to keep you and your kids safe, your grandma safe when she walks to the corner, right, that institution has to be defunded, has to be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Government at the local level, the state level and the federal level, honestly, have very basic duties that they owe the people of the community. And Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, Garcetti in Los Angeles, London Breed in San Francisco. Pick your city. Pick your city that\u2019s chaotic. De Blasio in New York? They care nothing about those taxpayers or those citizens or those residents. It\u2019s a disgrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: Again, it falls to America&#039;s Anchorman to highlight the atrocity of gun violence in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":397867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Violence Rips Through Chicago, Proving What Rush Taught Us: Liberalism Solves Nothing - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/17\/violence-rips-through-chicago-proving-what-rush-taught-us-liberalism-solves-nothing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Violence Rips Through Chicago, Proving What Rush Taught Us: Liberalism Solves Nothing - 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