Chicago - 2000 have been shot. 366 dead. 34 of them children. So far this year.
The Windy City has struggled to quell the crime wave as homicide rates and gang-related violence reaches staggering highs. Mike Tobin sat down with two gang members who agreed to be interviewed under the condition that Fox News not disclose their names or gang affiliations.
To them, guns and violence are a means to survive, they said. They attributed their lifestyles to a lack of opportunity, adding that a major factor driving gun violence in Chicago is that the gang structure themselves have fallen apart.
"There's no one who people look up to," one member, whose face was blocked for anonymity purposes, told Fox News. "Everyone takes orders from themselves. If you want to go kill that man, you're going to go kill that man."
With many of their original leaders behind bars, Chicago gangs have evolved into unstructured groups of friends with loaded guns ready to shoot over the pettiest of offenses, they explained.
An innocent person could get shot for something as small as "stepping on somebody's shoes in Chicago." the gang member told Tobin.
"People get shot over dumb reasons," a second gang member said. "People get shot over someone sneaking with another person's girl."
The first gang member said he is in possession of both legal and illegal guns. Asked which one was easier to get, he answered without skipping a beat, "the illegal one."
Men on the street have no aspirations or hopes for their future, they said. They live day to day and accept the fate that comes with their lifestyle.
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"What happens to guys in the gang when they grow old?" Tobin asked.
Where is BLM???? Where is WOKE???? Where is Kamala Harris????
Hypocrites.
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