Posted on 02/22/2013 3:28:26 PM PST by raptor22
Gun Control: On his way to a play date with the world's most famous golfer, President Obama stops in America's most violent city to push universal background checks that Chicago's violent street gangs will totally ignore.
Janay McFarlane, 18, was killed late Friday just hours after her younger sister joined a group of teens onstage for President Obama's speech in Chicago on gun violence.
McFarlane was shot to death hours after her little sister, Destini, 14, sat just feet away as Obama spoke in the aftermath of the similar murder of Hadiya Pendleton.
The 15-year-old Pendleton was gunned down in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood, a few blocks from the high school she attended and a few days after she performed with her high school band at Obama's inauguration. The park where she was killed is less than a mile from the president's Kenwood home.
Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago last month, a total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade, after more than 500 murders in 2012.
This carnage in the nation's most gun-controlled city in America has been blamed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others on the flow of guns into Chicago from elsewhere — notably suburban gun shops.
They do not explain why the areas outside Chicago don't have anywhere near Chicago's murder rate. The Windy City's murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people looks nothing like America's overall 4.2, the Midwest's 4.5 or Illinois' 5.6 rates.
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Pish-tosh. A bunch of crooks with guns is Chicago, where they kill each other. An army has direction and discipline. Have you ever seen "Zulu"?
Whoops, I should have read your much-cleverer post before I added mine.
The gangs are the new party cadres.
Line up to kiss their rings, peons!!!
/s/
IMHO
Obama’s foremost talent is community organizer. The Chicago gangs are the very community he organized. The murder rate is a function of his organizational efforts and abilities.
The murders are Obama’s fault
QED
The dims want to disarm the law abiding and leave the lawless alone. This creates chaos. Chaos demands restoration of order. Big brother steps in to restore order. Their kind of order.
This is what they are working towards.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2012/Gangs-and-Politicians-An-Unholy-Alliance/
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