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Sad.
And people wonder why gun control is needed
Sick, sick society
Killing children
Then morons gloating on the Internet, thinking they're scoring political points.
****ing idiots.
Whomever was the intended target more than likely ticked off someone in a gang. The gitl was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If anyone knows more, they are more likely to keep their mouths shut.
I guess if all these kids had been armed, they could have had a real shoot out.
Doesn't stop people from exploiting it to take jabs at Obama.
No, it doesn't.
The most ironic thing about this, is that they adamantly argue, when talking about F&F, that if not for the guns, that agent wouldn't have been killed. Notice the "but he could have been killed some other way" argument never comes up. Oh, no.
If not for the fact that those guns "walked" from the U.S. to Mexico, that poor man would be alive today.
But somehow, when we are talking about American children, it's not the guns.
Do you think that it occurs to them that we saw through that hypocrisy months ago which is why their chest-beating over F&F wasn't taken seriously?
It never changes in Chicago. When I lived there, almost 30 years ago, there was a high school basketball star named Ben Wilson who was shot & killed by gang members while walking down the street with his girlfriend. His coach called him 'magic johnson w/ a jump shot,' and he was ranked as the #1 high school player in the country that year.
There is a period of hand-wringing, vows for more gun control from people like Daley, Blago, and Rahm. The result--thirty years later, nothing has changed.
It never changes in Chicago. When I lived there, almost 30 years ago, there was a high school basketball star named Ben Wilson who was shot & killed by gang members while walking down the street with his girlfriend. His coach called him 'magic johnson w/ a jump shot,' and he was ranked as the #1 high school player in the country that year.
There is a period of hand-wringing, vows for more gun control from people like Daley, Blago, and Rahm. The result--thirty years later, nothing has changed.
Current gun laws in Chicago are less restrictive then they were 10 years ago, yet the homicide rate continues to climb.
According to police, the suspected shooter was apparently a gang member. Such individuals are not known for obeying laws.
It is unlikely that any of the laws currently being pushed by various paranoid gun-haters, would have stopped this shooting.
In part because they are all ALREADY IN FORCE in Chicago where this shooting took place.
The gun-haters are responding by pushing those laws anyway, to disarm law-abiding citizens who haven't shot anybody (and even could have protected her) instead of criminals like the one who murdered Hadiya Pendleton.
Chicago honor student Hadiya Pendleton, who participated in Obama inauguration festivities, shot dead just blocks from her school
Pendleton, 15, was a member of King College Prep marching band that traveled to Washington. Police believe she may have been caught in the middle of a gang-related shooting.
By David Boroff / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 9:31 AM
A 15-year-old Chicago honor student who participated in inaugural events celebrating President Obama's re-election was fatally shot Tuesday just blocks from her school.
Hadiya Pendleton was among approximately a dozen teens taking cover from the rain in a local park at 2:30 p.m. when a gunman jumped a fence and opened fire, according to reports. Pendleton and other King College Prep students had been dismissed from school early due to exams. She was with other members of the school's volleyball team, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.
The gunshots sent the entire group running out of the park in a panic, authorities say. Pendleton and a 16-year-old boy were both hit and collapsed about one block away.
Pendleton was shot once in the back and later died at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. The wounded boy was in serious condition Tuesday night, according to the Tribune.
Many of the teens with Pendleton at the time of the shooting were believed to be gang members and left the scene, authorities said.
This is very sad, i wonder what it will take before liberals actually look to the real crime, and stop assuming the lives of us law abiding people are just not regulated enough.
This is very sad, i wonder what it will take before liberals actually look to the real crime, and stop assuming the lives of us law abiding people are just not regulated enough.
The girl was 15, even if open carry was allowed, she wouldn't be eligible, unless you want to change that also.
The girl was 15, even if open carry was allowed, she wouldn't be eligible, unless you want to change that also.
Hey, if it saves one child's life shouldn't they just kick doors in and rifle (pun intended) through their homes looking for illegal weapons? How about allowing the cops to pull drive-by's on the gangs themselves? It's for the children after all!
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