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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.
"If you're going to make an omelet, you're going to have to break a few eggs."
That's what an Obama admin official said when he was told that a U.S. Border Patrol agent had been murdered with a gun that his agency had deliberately let the drug cartels buy and smuggle out of the country.
Will we hear a similar statement, when these people get around to explaining why they keep pushing "gun control" laws that do nothing to reduce murders like this one, and the Sandy Hook massacre, and the Aurora theater shootings etc.?
And I agree, no additional measures are going to cure what can only be characterized as a disease.
Doesn't matter how many laws a particular city puts in place if, as was noted in the second post, guns can "walk" their way all around the country with abandon.
And I agree, no additional measures are going to cure what can only be characterized as a disease.
Doesn't matter how many laws a particular city puts in place if, as was noted in the second post, guns can "walk" their way all around the country with abandon.
It's not so much from around the country, they come from around the world. People don't want to realize that for some reason. Not all guns in criminal's hands come from a legal owner/buyer. They come from over seas inside the same shipping containers, boats, planes, etc. that bring in the narcotics. Since you can't easily buy a full automatic AK-47, MP-5 or SKS type rifle in the US, how are these gangs getting them? Overseas. You can even buy a fully automatic AK from China over the internet.
And I agree, no additional measures are going to cure what can only be characterized as a disease.
Doesn't matter how many laws a particular city puts in place if, as was noted in the second post, guns can "walk" their way all around the country with abandon.
Doesn't stop people from exploting it to take jabs at Obama.
Hadiya Pendleton Dead: Chicago Teen Who Performed At Inaugural Events Fatally Shot
CHICAGO — A 15-year-old majorette who performed at some of President Barack Obama's recent inauguration festivities has been shot to death in Chicago.
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Hadiya Pendleton Dead: Chicago Teen Who Performed At Inaugural Events Fatally Shot
