{"id":6795,"date":"2025-10-09T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:45:55","slug":"he-did-it-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6795","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe Did It\u201d Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chicago Mayor Blames Red States, Trump for City\u2019s Gun Violence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago Mayor&nbsp;<strong>Brandon Johnson<\/strong>&nbsp;is facing backlash after claiming that the city\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>gun violence crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>stems from&nbsp;<strong>firearms trafficked in from Republican-led states<\/strong>&nbsp;and from&nbsp;<strong>federal inaction under former President Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of guns do not come from Chicago,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor every gun that the Chicago PD fights to get off the streets, two or three more new guns come into our city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He cited&nbsp;<strong>lax gun laws in nearby states like Indiana<\/strong>&nbsp;as fueling the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson argued that without stronger&nbsp;<strong>national gun policies<\/strong>&nbsp;and efforts to&nbsp;<strong>disrupt trafficking routes<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago\u2019s progress will remain limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics, however, accused the mayor of&nbsp;<strong>deflecting blame<\/strong>, saying he\u2019s overlooking local issues such as&nbsp;<strong>gang violence and weak enforcement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks have reignited debate over&nbsp;<strong>whether urban gun violence is a federal or local responsibility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Blames Red States, Trump for City\u2019s Gun Violence Chicago Mayor&nbsp;Brandon Johnson&nbsp;is facing backlash after claiming that the city\u2019s&nbsp;gun violence crisis stems from&nbsp;firearms trafficked in from Republican-led states&nbsp;and from&nbsp;federal inaction under former President Donald Trump. \u201cThe vast majority of guns do not come from Chicago,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cFor every gun that the Chicago PD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6797,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}