When a Mass Shooting Begat Gun Control
Posted By: Pluperfect, 8/10/2019 5:48:57 AM
The seven men gunned to death in a Lincoln Park garage on February 14, 1929 — Peter and Frank Gusenberg, Albert Kachellek, Adam Heyer, Reinhardt Schwimmer, Albert Weinshank, and John May — were mobsters. Members or associates of Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang, which competed with Al Capone for control of bootlegging in Chicago, they were just as responsible as their killers for the crime wave that made the Prohibition Era the deadliest decade of the 20th century up to that point. Still, those violent deaths shocked the American public and led to enormous changes in the nation’s laws and culture — far more than mass murders in our own era.
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When a Mass Shooting Begat Gun Control
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The seven men gunned to death in a Lincoln Park garage on February 14, 1929 — Peter and Frank Gusenberg, Albert Kachellek, Adam Heyer, Reinhardt Schwimmer, Albert Weinshank, and John May — were mobsters. Members or associates of Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang, which competed with Al Capone for control of bootlegging in Chicago, they were just as responsible as their killers for the crime wave that made the Prohibition Era the deadliest decade of the 20th century up to that point.
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Officials call it suicide. I'm thinking Arkancide.
(Snip)He was on suicide watch. I wonder if any of the suicide watchers loses his job.
Likely not. The public doesn't mind if we dispose of this rat without a trial.
But many rich and powerful people will also escape a trial, including the prosecutors who let him skate in Florida a decade ago.
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