Last week, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl from Chicago, was performing with her high school band at President Obama's inauguration.
On Tuesday, she was gunned down as she sought shelter from the rain under a canopy in a park near her well-regarded prep school — and less than a mile from Obama's Chicago home.
Instantly, the teen — an honors student, volleyball player, and majorette at Kings College Prep School — became the face of Chicago's high, and possibly rising, murder rate.
She also became part of the debate over gun violence that has erupted since the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) cited her death as the latest evidence of the need for more strict gun control.
Gun-control advocates, however, note that Hadiya Pendleton was the 44th person to die in Chicago this year.
"That puts Chicago on pace to surpass last year's total of more than 500 murders," says the Washington Examiner in an editorial. Is that because the city has lenient gun laws? Quite the opposite, according to the Examiner. If anything, the paper says, Chicago is a laboratory that is proving that "feel-good laws" really "do nothing to decrease gun violence."
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when will people realize that "gun control" doesn't work? the FBI noted that the original clinton era ban did NOTHING to the crime rate nationwide. bloomberg himself said obama's 23 proposals would have done nothing to stop the sandy hook shooting. the 50 most gun controlled cities in the US are the most violent and crime-ridden. when guns were confiscated in the UK, criminals were emboldened because they knew their victims were unarmed. same thing everywhere else the populace gets disarmed. lool it all up, doubters, it's true. WAKE UP, GUN CONTROL DOESN'T WORK!
ReplyDeletewhats that you say? 400 guns came from Louisiana? hmmm i'm not an expert but Louisiana is no where near Chicago... Hmmmm, so Chicago has the strictest gun control measures and yet, guns come from Louisiana? hmmm, interesting...
ReplyDeleteAlso notice, HOW HE MENTIONED SEASONED CRIMINALS WON'T BE DETERRED BY GUN CONTROL LAWS????? So there you have it folks, plain as day written in black and white...
What else needs to be said? the guy already said laws WON'T stop CRIMINALS and with the stricter laws for guns, Chicago has the #1 murder rate in the US...
feel-good laws" really "do nothing to decrease gun violence."
ReplyDeleteWell said say no more. This is right out of Obamas hometown.
Why don't they go after the shooters of innocent people and move them off the streets. Once that happens there won't be a need for any more gun control laws, the criminals will be off the streets. Problem solved.
ReplyDeleteIknow, I know, that is just simply too easy. Just saying
Why do they not go to DC to shoot their guns?
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