7-Year-Old Boy Amari Brown Among 7 Killed in Chicago Shootings over 4th of July Weekend by AWR Hawkins5 Jul 20151240 Beginning Thursday night and continuing through Sunday morning, 38 people were shot–and 7 killed–in Chicago during the July 4th weekend. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, one of the Sunday fatalities was a 23-year-old man who was shot and killed about 2:30 am “in the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood.” Two others with him were shot and wounded. In another Sunday fatality, a 26-year-old was “sitting in his car in the 7700 block of South South Shore Drive about 1 a.m. when someone walked up and fired shots into the car.” A 17-year-old was shot in a separate incident and taken to the hospital, where he is stable. On Friday, a different 17-year-old was shot and killed while playing basketball with his brother at Hadiya Pendleton Park in the 4300 block of South King. A gunman opened fire around 4:45 p.m., killing the high school junior. The boy’s aunt said, “He was a loving child, getting ready to be a senior at high school. He was going to start a summer job on Monday. He was very excited about it.” Another weekend fatality was 7-year-old Amari Brown, who was pronounced dead Sunday morning “at 1:56 am.” Brown was “standing in the 1100 block of North Harding” with a 26-year-old woman when shots rang out just before midnight. “The woman was also shot in the chest and taken to Stroger [Hospital], where her condition stabilized.” Brown’s grandmother said, “It’s crazy. Like who would shoot a 7-year-old? He got shot in the chest. Who would do that? To a baby? All the kids that are getting killed out here – it’s crazy. When is it going to stop?” Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, among which are an assault weapons ban, a limit on where guns can be sold to law-abiding citizens, and of course the statewide requirement to acquire a Firearm Owner ID card (FOID) before acquiring a gun. Yet news of homicides and gun-related crime continue to fill the pages of Chicago papers and news outlets. On June 6 Breitbart News reported that Rev. Michael Pfleger blamed the NRA for the high crime rate in Chicago and suggested the gun rights group would “will pay pay for the murder of [Chicago] children.” WE NEED MORE GUN LAWS TO SAVE US FROM ALL THE GUN LAWS...
Two people were shot and critically wounded last night after a concert in Holmdel, NJ (link). One person was shot and killed and another person was shot and wounded last night in Houston, TX (link). One woman was shot and wounded in an apparent road rage shooting onSunday night in Reedley, CA (link). Two people were shot and wounded in Birmingham, AL last night (link). One person was shot and killed in Philadelphia, PA yesterday evening (link). A woman was shot and wounded on Saturday night in Gillett, WI, before the gunman shot and killed himself; the woman died yesterday at the hospital (link). A woman was shot and killed before the gunman shot and wounded himself on Monday morning in Los Angeles, CA (link).
"In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks — even freemen — could not own guns. Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: “t would give them the full liberty,” he said, “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”" Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/18/the-racist-history-of-gun-control-laws/#ixzz3hr4vigHv And republicans have been trying to protect blacks against democrats ever since.
I'd like it if it were a requirement for all to carry. That way a perp would think twice about it... knowing either his intended victim or someone nearby had a gun and would pop his ass. Likely would think think twice about his intentions.. and GO GET A FARKIN' JOB INSTEAD!!
Just in the last few days Three people were shot and killed and nine others were shot and wounded in shootings across the South Side of Chicago since last night (link). A woman as shot and killed by her estranged boyfriend who then shot and killed himself yesterday in Maryville, TN (link). A man was shot and killed in El Paso, TX, last night, near the same spot where someone else was shot and killed the night before (link). Two people were shot and wounded in a firefight in Kansas City, KS, last night (link). A woman was shot and killed by a gunman who then shot and killed himself on Wednesday in Kingman, TX (link). This is the world the gun industry wants. This is the world we all pay for.