23 Shot During Brandon Johnson’s First Weekend as Chicago Mayor

By AWR Hawkins

At least 23 people were shot, one of them fatally, during Brandon Johnson’s (D) first weekend as Chicago Mayor.

Breitbart News reported 21 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning alone in Johnson’s Chicago. One of those shooting victims, a 17-year-old boy, succumbed to his wounds.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times noted the overall number of shooting victims had reached at least 23 by Monday morning.

The gun violence during Johnson’s first weekend as Mayor comes one week after 26 people were shot, four of them fatally, during Lori Lightfoot’s (D) last weekend as Mayor.

There were over 2,700 homicides in Chicago during Lightfoot’s tenure:

The Sun-Times observed there have already been at least 210 homicides at this point in 2023 alone.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010. and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.