Comments on: Shock Over Chicago Student Gun Deaths

In This School Year Alone, 24 Students Were Killed, Leaving City Rattled To The Core

[middleman8]

Living in the U S always on guard

afraid to walk in your own backyard

volunteer for a combat zone

its safer there than your streets back home

[gunownerdan]

The WAR ON DRUGS is a WAR ON AMERICA.
Prohibition kills. Always has, always will!
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"When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns."

[ubrew12]

they need a strong snitch law:

Someone can call the police, tell them where an illegal/improperly stored gun can be found.

If the police find the gun as stated, they charge the gun owner $800 and take the gun (no other action is taken). The snitch gets paid ~$500 for the information, but is able (somehow) to keep his/her identity secret (even from the police).

This way inner city grandmothers can snitch out their gang-member grandsons without fear of being hurt, of losing their grandsons.

[okcnfrcr]

I will tell you that I worked several gun shows in OKC where it was proven that Chicago based Gangbangers were coming into OKlA and buying their firearms off of the floor from citizens, buying laser sites and ammo to take back to Chicago. This was part of the EL Ruken? gang and arrest was made in Missouri and received a federal conviction. This was just a couple of gun shows that they were caught. It was deteremined that the buys were being made across the country and the law was being skirted by buying from " Stupid" or "Unscrupulous" gun sellers who were selling to anyone who had cash. I for one took a stand at the gun shows against obvious Gangbangers, skinheads and questionable "Straw" purchases, where a clean person was used to buy a firearm for a convicted felon. I wouldn''t let them in the show or they had my personal escort while in there. Call it profiling or whatever, I call it " Bad people don''t buy in a show I''m responsible to help protect" and the community around it.

[cyberus-2009]

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oh here we go, the mayor says we need more laws on guns. and yet handguns are already banned. so why doesn''''t he ENFORCE the ones he has got instead of just passing more that still wont take the guns out of the gangbangers nor solve the lets kill em mentality,, get a family for support, and hold the shooters accountable. thanks

Posted by scaredbygov
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Its no different than drinking/driving laws .. lowering the blood alcohol level didn''t reduce deaths or accidents because the people that are going to get drunk and drive are going to do so whether the BA level is .08 or .18 ... the lower BA level does what banning more guns does .. create criminals out of otherwise law abiding people.

[okcnfrcr]

it''s time for the law enforcement community and minority communities to band together to fight the gang mentality with extreme enforcement action. You can blanket the target areas with patrols of different types and Field Interview and arrest any and all lawbreakers. This can be done by getting community leaders to ride along and experience the lawlessness in the neighborhoods. It is time to stand up to the gangs together, but it would be interesting to see if the minority leaders would stick their reputations out to help in this endeavor. The NAACP and Hispanic Centers can advance their respective constituents'' positions in the community by getting rid of the problem makers. Police do it every day they step in their units for people they don''t know. Let''s see if community leaders have the guts to ride that line in the ocmmunity.

[scaredbygov]

oh here we go, the mayor says we need more laws on guns. and yet handguns are already banned. so why doesn''t he ENFORCE the ones he has got instead of just passing more that still wont take the guns out of the gangbangers nor solve the lets kill em mentality,, get a family for support, and hold the shooters accountable. thanks

[jaw11787]

Shocked? Who is shocked? Here is a real fast way to get "UN-shocked": when the people doing the shooting are first arrested, interview their FATHER and see what he has to say about where his killer child went wrong....yes, you''re right; I am being sarcastic. These people have no fathers in their lives. BINGO! And there is your answer. The cultural shift toward single women having babies is beginning to reap what has been sewn. Now do you see? Now, does Oprah see? You need a man in a child''s life. This cultural shift is too much: ignorant, drop-out women/babies are having babies without a clue or a dollar to their name. But, hey, far be it from me to critize our diverse culture. Get ready for the government grant to study the problem. Dopes...they are all dopes.