Posted on 11/07/2015 5:47:09 AM PST by rellimpank
Over time we all will learn more about the savaging of Tyshawn Lee, the basketball devotee who won't celebrate his 10th birthday. Multiple gunshot wounds pre-empted that prospect Monday afternoon. Depending on where the first bullet hit, his body responded as best it could: His nerves likely activated chemical neurotransmitters that created an atmosphere of pain, shock and fear in his brain. Owing to massive tissue damage, loss of oxygen-carrying blood or both, Tyshawn ultimately drew one dying breath.
We hope every Illinois lawmaker finds a private moment to imagine that annihilation of a child on this city's South Side. Especially the Chicago lawmakers who have blocked legislation that would stiffen sentences for gun crimes.
Maybe, as is custom for the lawmakers, they'll decry the violence on their streets, do absolutely nothing about it and move on. They're absorbed by big battles they'll fight in Springfield. If the lawmakers again duck responsibility — if they shrewdly wait for the rest of us, too, to move on — the dying breath of Tyshawn Lee still will faintly echo the dying breaths of so many Chicago children:
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Of course these events have nothing to do with the culture of Chicongo......
Gun control in action.
Violent criminals are secure in the knowledge that their victims will not be armed.
That’s slowly changing in Chicago since they were forced to issue concealed weapon permits. Sadly it won’t stop the gang shootings of innocent bystanders.
Is it gun violence or criminal violence?
If it’s gun violence, then why are people put in jail? If the victims were killed by knives, would it still be a crime.
Most thinking people watching tv/movies understand that it’s connection to the real world is just enough to make it look real.
For some, tv/movies become their reality.
Most people have been in an auto accident, just a fender bender.
Please tell me about the movie that reproduced the same feelings as when that car suddenly came out of the alley and you ran into it?
Yes, they can use character and plot development, music, lighting ...to get you pumped up.
Yet, it is understood that you are safe in your chair.
RVN 1969, I was shot in the head.
No movie can compare.
We have a large group that think Rambo or The Deer Hunter are true and factual.
I try to forget the many times I’ve been ask about Russian roulette in Vietnam, and by educated people too.
Yes, I understand that russian roulette is an allegory,a good one; I have given up trying to explain it.
LOL! Stupid liberals want to ban guns but not lock-up the bad guys. Typical liberal Democrat mindset.
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