gang lines and into unfamiliar neighborhoods.

massive school closings in chicago are one of the reasons for the upswing in violence.

don't expect ed deformers like rahm and obama to mention it, though.

CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama says that every four months, his hometown of Chicago suffers the loss of as many children as were killed in the Connecticut elementary school shooting.
Obama says gun violence is taking too many children's lives, not just in mass shootings like the one in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 kids. He says 65 children were killed by guns in Chicago last year.
He pushed stricter gun control Friday in a visit to Chicago, ncluding background checks and a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
But he said guns are not solely to blame for the violence. He also pointed to communities with too few fathers involved in children's lives and too few examples of success. He says he wishes he had a father around growing up.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-gun-violence-killing-too-many-children-221524999--politics.html

A commission charged with helping the Chicago public school system decide which schools to close recommended on Thursday that no high schools be closed to avoid making students cross gang boundaries to get to a new school.

Parents and school activists have complained that closing neighborhood high schools would endanger students because of gang violence. Chicago recorded 506 murders due to gang violence in 2012, up 17 percent from 2011..

"Closing high schools highly correlates to drop out rates and spikes of violence," Lewis told Reuters. "Hopefully they learned their lesson about that."

The union said 88 percent of students affected by Chicago school closings or other actions in the past decade were African-American and most closed schools were in poor areas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/chicago-school-closings-violence_n_2452293.html

the purpose of drone strikes is to kill innocent school-children. The two subjects are exactly similar.

I lived in a black & white world. It'd be so much easier... thinking is hard.

So, that has to be taken into account.

And again, the "violence plaguing the nation" thing really doesn't stand up. We're steadily getting less violent, but nobody seems to want to say this. Nobody.