Fifteen-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was an honor student, volleyball player and majorette who one week earlier was performing with her high school band at President Obama’s inauguration ceremony. On Saturday, First Lady Michelle Obama flew to Chicago to visit Hadiya – paying respects at her funeral.
The King College Prep student is one of 42 homicide victims in Chicago during the month of January. Pendleton’s story is an all too common tale in the Windy City, but you wouldn’t know it due to the media and political efforts to control the conversation – using this deadly epidemic for the national cause of gun control – instead of actually making life safer back in Chicago.
Last year over 500 individuals were murdered in Chicago. The public perception is that the violence is always gang related – criminal killing criminal. Gun control advocates use this point of view to combat critics who claim that Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the country, is an example that gun control doesn’t work. What Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel don’t want to discuss is that gang related or not, innocent children, are being buried in their own backyard.
Fifty-six children – under the age of 18 – met violent ends last year in Chicago, while 133 individuals – nearly one-third of all the murdered victims – never saw their 21st birthday. Still the city and the state don’t want to talk about the nightmare that Chicago’s African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods have become. Nobody is asking how the state of Illinois’ disastrous economic situation is contributing to violence on the streets of Chicago.
What Draconian Laws? Anyone who uses a Gun to commit a crime should receive the “Death Penalty” and it should not take decades of Appeals to enforce. It is time to get these people out of our Culture and Society. There is no excuse for extortion, coercion, robbery, etc. with a gun or lethal weapon. If there was no self-defense involved then it should be an easy conviction irregardless of the social aspects. If there is a severe penalty for your actions then either the individuals adjust their behavior or exit this World. But today there is no enforcement of the law as it stands on the books and there are thousands of excuses for 2nd, 3rd, etc. chances. Evolution is tough but it is fair in its execution because it is blind to race, religion, status, etc. Just like we should put all the Politicians who decided not to enforce the laws they were sworn to uphold in jail. We should establish real accountability and responsibility for once actions in Society.
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MILLER: Chicago’s deadly gun control lessons
Children die despite draconian laws
The King College Prep student is one of 42 homicide victims in Chicago during the month of January. Pendleton’s story is an all too common tale in the Windy City, but you wouldn’t know it due to the media and political efforts to control the conversation – using this deadly epidemic for the national cause of gun control – instead of actually making life safer back in Chicago.
Last year over 500 individuals were murdered in Chicago. The public perception is that the violence is always gang related – criminal killing criminal. Gun control advocates use this point of view to combat critics who claim that Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the country, is an example that gun control doesn’t work. What Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel don’t want to discuss is that gang related or not, innocent children, are being buried in their own backyard.
Fifty-six children – under the age of 18 – met violent ends last year in Chicago, while 133 individuals – nearly one-third of all the murdered victims – never saw their 21st birthday. Still the city and the state don’t want to talk about the nightmare that Chicago’s African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods have become. Nobody is asking how the state of Illinois’ disastrous economic situation is contributing to violence on the streets of Chicago.
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