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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:01 PM Apr 2014

Amid weekend of violence, 6 children shot Sunday night

A South Side shooting left four girls and a boy hurt, and on the Northwest Side a 15-year-old girl was shot while riding in a car as shootings across Chicago Sunday night added to the toll of a violent holiday weekend.

At least nine people were killed and at least 36 wounded since Friday. Two of the deaths came Sunday morning when a Cook County Sheriff's Office correctional officer apparently shot to death his wife, a Chicago police officer, inside their Southwest Side home before turning the gun on himself, authorities said. Three of the deaths and 14 of the wounded were shot between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Sunday.

Five children, ranging in age from 11 to 15, were shot by someone who fired from a car shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the 6600 block of South Michigan Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

The children had been playing at a park near an elementary school and were walking home when a car pulled up and someone asked if they were in a particular gang, family members and police said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-2-men-seriously-wounded-in-south-side-shooting-20140420,0,3822278.story
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Amid weekend of violence, 6 children shot Sunday night (Original Post) SecularMotion Apr 2014 OP
Without even reading the article, IronGate Apr 2014 #1
Also, quite certain these were people living in poverty. STOP, don't look at that, it's the GUNZ! NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #23
Do YOU have an opinion on the topic of your own thread? Jenoch Apr 2014 #2
I'll go out on a limb and assert that shooting children is bad. Your opinion on the subject, alas, Jgarrick Apr 2014 #3
Please ignore the pro-gun trolls who are trying to derail threads. SecularMotion Apr 2014 #4
Now your talking to yourself? IronGate Apr 2014 #5
I have been Duckhunter935 Apr 2014 #16
I don't want anyone blocked, IronGate Apr 2014 #17
I hope he just gets bored Duckhunter935 Apr 2014 #18
Amen to that. IronGate Apr 2014 #19
Are you talking to yourself sarisataka Apr 2014 #6
I'm not frustrated or burning out. SecularMotion Apr 2014 #7
There are a couple I suspect sarisataka Apr 2014 #9
Just FYI DashOneBravo Apr 2014 #22
no.. but I wonder about your brother SQUEE Apr 2014 #25
All The Way DashOneBravo Apr 2014 #26
That isn't gun culture gejohnston Apr 2014 #8
Superintendent McCarthy has a solution - Bicycle cops DonP Apr 2014 #10
2nd Amendment activists that won't even take Easter weekend off. Marshall III Apr 2014 #11
Equating second Amendment activists with drug dealers and gangsters. gejohnston Apr 2014 #12
I agree. Everyone who thinks that a gun is the answer to problems is disgusting. Marshall III Apr 2014 #13
Like a hammer, blueridge3210 Apr 2014 #20
In Chicago getting caught with an illegal gun has the same penalty as shoplifting. ... spin Apr 2014 #14
So can we hear your thoughts on this? Duckhunter935 Apr 2014 #15
time to ban guns.... ileus Apr 2014 #21
Criminals doing criminal things. ManiacJoe Apr 2014 #24
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
23. Also, quite certain these were people living in poverty. STOP, don't look at that, it's the GUNZ!
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 11:54 PM
Apr 2014

You'll learn that the push from the phony-left against guns is a push against the poorest among us.

That is why you won't find many posts by certain members that aren't about keeping guns away from people, that's their one size fits all approach.

 

Jgarrick

(521 posts)
3. I'll go out on a limb and assert that shooting children is bad. Your opinion on the subject, alas,
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:19 PM
Apr 2014

remains a mystery.

Unless you'd care to enlighten us, mind you.

 

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
4. Please ignore the pro-gun trolls who are trying to derail threads.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:29 PM
Apr 2014

They attack any posts that show the negative effects of gun culture.

 

IronGate

(2,186 posts)
5. Now your talking to yourself?
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:35 PM
Apr 2014

I'm curious as to how much longer the host of this group is going to put up with your constant disruption?

 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
16. I have been
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:13 PM
Apr 2014

convinced to let him keep posting and show how shallow he is and just generally looking silly.

 

IronGate

(2,186 posts)
17. I don't want anyone blocked,
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:42 PM
Apr 2014

but I really have to wonder how much more the host is going to put up with.

isclaimer: Guns don't interest me in the least, I do own a few, but the whole debate bores me, what gets my blood boiling is someone purposely disrupting a group for their own agenda while being the host of an opposite group who blocks members arbitrarily.

 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
18. I hope he just gets bored
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:44 PM
Apr 2014

He did this same thing for a while in outdoor life. Must be another phase for him.

sarisataka

(18,679 posts)
6. Are you talking to yourself
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:37 PM
Apr 2014

Now I know tone doesn't come through well and it probably sounds snarky. It is not the case.
I sense your frustration and though we may have different views on this issue I wish no one ill.

Might I suggest you take a couple days off from DU and give yourself a rest. Come back with a refreshed attitude. I actually would be sad if you burned out.

 

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
7. I'm not frustrated or burning out.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:41 PM
Apr 2014

Just dealing with a recent influx of returning pro-gun trolls. I expect they'll be banned in time.

Rinse and repeat.

sarisataka

(18,679 posts)
9. There are a couple I suspect
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:46 PM
Apr 2014

Watch careful, you'll notice there are some posters I do no engage as I suspect they will soon be gone. In that we agree.

This is a passionate topic however and not every supporter is a troll.

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)
26. All The Way
Fri Apr 25, 2014, 07:52 PM
Apr 2014

LOL.

Those weren't bad, we used them in jump school.

But the -1B was fine ride to work.

Have a good weekend.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
8. That isn't gun culture
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:41 PM
Apr 2014

It is gang culture and the negative effects of drug culture.
This is gun culture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_sport

This is drug culture:
http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/phil_hands/hands-on-wisconsin-mexican-drug-violence-splatters-wisconsin/article_aefae97e-ad6e-11df-841f-001cc4c002e0.html

The real problem with Chicago and cities like it is that Tammany Hall is alive and well. Like Boss Tweed's minions, a lot of these politicans profit from and protect the gangs from the police while scapegoating "rednecks from Montana".

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
10. Superintendent McCarthy has a solution - Bicycle cops
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 03:11 PM
Apr 2014

After declaring victory over violence last week in a presser with Rahm, he announced he's now putting cops on bikes in the high crime areas.

That will cut down on shootings, the gangs won't have to shoot, the can reach out with a stick and knock the cops off the bike.

Until Chicago leadership stops looking at the gangs and their extended families as a voting bloc, instead of the threat they are, it won't change.

One shooting right in front of a gun free zone safe passage school and another right under a police Blue Light camera, installed to deter crime.

 

Marshall III

(69 posts)
13. I agree. Everyone who thinks that a gun is the answer to problems is disgusting.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 03:57 PM
Apr 2014

Drug dealers, gangsters, right wing "ranchers", warped "militia" members, school shooters....all of them!

 

blueridge3210

(1,401 posts)
20. Like a hammer,
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 08:29 PM
Apr 2014

a gun can be the answer to some problems, but clearly not all. I too have no use for drug dealers, gangsters, school shooters or others who use guns to commit crimes. It is no more appropriate to lump all gun-owners in with the criminals that misuse guns that it would be to associate persons who lawfully operate a motor vehicle in with those who choose to drive while impaired.

spin

(17,493 posts)
14. In Chicago getting caught with an illegal gun has the same penalty as shoplifting. ...
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 06:14 PM
Apr 2014
Proposed Minimum Sentencing Law In Illinois Faces Scrutiny
by CHERYL CORLEY

October 24, 2013 3:09 AM ET

In Illinois, you can face a prison term of one to three years if you use a weapon unlawfully. But you might serve only half that time, or you could get probation or even boot camp.

Chicago alone saw more than 500 murders last year, most by gunfire. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the current law is not what's needed to fight gun violence in the city.

"In fact, I would like to ... note that the same minimum penalty we have for a gun law is what we have for shoplifting," Emanuel has said....emphasis added

A bill backed by the mayor would raise the sentence for unlawful use of a firearm to a three-year mandatory minimum, and require anyone found guilty to serve 85 percent of that time. It's a proposal that Cleopatra Pendleton supports.
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/24/240309612/proposed-minimum-sentencing-law-in-illinois-faces-scrutiny
 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
15. So can we hear your thoughts on this?
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 07:12 PM
Apr 2014

I see a murder suicide with a trained law enforcement officer and a probable gang shooting. How would you prevent this? Care to discuss or are you just going to ignore the SOP again.

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