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This Is Not Mutual Combat
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says there is “insufficient evidence” and now Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is a former prosecutor herself, is not happy. Foxx even cited “mutual combat” in this case, as it was reportedly gangs shooting at one another.
It happened in the 1200 block of Mason in Austin around 11 a.m. last Friday. The shooting was caught on a pod camera and police say more than 70 shots were fired. Two groups of gang members were shooting at each other. One of the alleged shooters died and two others were wounded.
Mutual combat is two or more willing combatants throwing some punches and then walking away from each other. It’s not a fight involving dangerous weapons, or deadly weapons. Mutual combat is not one individual dying, and two other participants wounded.
Afghanistan is not the only place involved in a “Forever War”, Chicago could be called Kabul on Lake Michigan. Kim Foxx and federal prosecutors in Illinois have been remiss in enforcing felony in possession of firearms laws. Perhaps they are too busy going after the real domestic terrorists, you know, like parents that attend school board meetings.
Kim Foxx placing the blame on the lack of a comprehensive plan to deal with violence is laughable. The plan is simple, arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate violent felons. Guess who can’t engage in street violence, violent felons that are spending years in prison can’t.
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Published in Policing
Nah. It is people deliberately trying to avoid killing someone else. I am in the middle of this fascinating book which talks about the enormous lengths individual soldiers go to in order to actually look someone in the eye and kill them.
This is a shockingly consistent trend through history. The people shooting in our cities really WANT to kill. Most soldiers are not that excited about doing it, especially when the moment arises.
Example: one of the most effective ways to kill someone in close combat is to stick your thumb deep in their eye and root around. They will die. And we know it. But we recoil at the thought.
There is not a single recorded incident, apparently, of anyone ever doing this.
That is the advantage distance, two-man teams, and some degree of mental abnormality will give you.
This horrible attack is the inevitable result of liberal “compassion” and “equity”. Vicious attacker is released to attack again.
Yes, Yes, No
This doesn’t discount Randy’s point. It is more a matter of degree. Yes, many soldiers will shoot at an individual enemy with an intent to miss, but not to the degree of 70K rounds worth. When you look at aggregate numbers (the way some of these authors do) it is simply (Total rounds expended / persons killed).
That math makes no allowance for, say
In other words, while sounding big and bad, it really is a worthless metric and is pretty useless to any decision maker.