A young talented teen who just performed at the Obama inauguration shot dead... by a bullet not intended for her. And there has been over 40 people shot dead in January alone. If statistics is of any value, and that there were over 500 homicide last year, there will be 450+ people out there breathing right now who will be shot dead by the end of this year. (and you can be one of them)
There will be people who say, "look, Chicago has tougher gun laws and look at those numbers" and then cry gun laws are useless as they embrace gun owner associations. Their reasoning is this: look if bad people have guns, we better have guns.
The talk of gun control is talking about banning high round clips and some semi-automatic weapons... That's a good first step. However, even that is facing challenge after people who lost their loved ones speak out, even Senator who got shot speak up. Waita minute, what kind of gun killed that talented teen and many others? They are probably regular hand guns and no one is talking about restricting them.
I don't feel safe. So do kids I suppose. If kids don't feel safe, how can they grow up correctly and not end up in vicious cycle of gang violence?
In addition to gun control, we need law-and-order restored in our neighborhoods! Are there enough police out there? Are there cameras all over the place to watch over the street corners? We perhaps need propaganda-like posters all over saying: "If you kill, you will be in jail" posters with gruesome pictures all over. A lot more need to be done.
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