Posted on 03/10/2009 10:49:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
508 Chicago School Students Shot In 16 Months CBS News Interactive: Guns In America CHICAGO (CBS) ―
Twenty-five Chicago Public School students have been murdered this year. As shocking as that number is, there is another figure that's very disturbing as well: the number of students who have been shot in a 16-month period is enough to fill an elementary school - 508 students, according to school officials. CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago's Chief Correspondent Jay Levine asks why, and what is being done to stop it.
Think about it. By this time tomorrow, odds are at least one Chicago Public School student will have been shot. By this time next week, there'll be seven. It's a staggering, frightening, shameful statistic that judging from the reaction we got, those who could do something aren't anxious to talk about.
"No one really wants to address this but we need to call for a state of emergency," said Pastor Roosevelt Watkins.
Chicago Public School students are relatively safe until they leave school, but after that, the closer to home, stats show, the more dangerous it is.
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Busing to achieve racial balance.
That’ll fix the problem.........in the Twilight Zone.
That’s not possible. Chicago doesn’t allow regular citizens to own guns.
PLUS, by Federal law, Schools are “Gun Free Zones”, doncha know!
They should just make guns illegal in Chicago. That’ll fix it.
Sounds like they have a shortage of “parents”. A shortage of “fathers”.
Another cancer left over from community organizers?
We wanted to talk with Brian Samuels, the school official analyzing the data. He wasn't available.
First and foremost, define "student".
Is that someone who actually attends school? Someone who's of age to attend school? Someone equal to or younger than the oldest person in school? Do we count college aged students? Continuing education students and their peers?
Anyway, sooner or later, everyone gets shot.
Quagmire!
...failed policies of the last 16 months...time to pull out of Chicago...
Wow, one would think that Obama’s city would be the shining example for us all.
Now that’s education reform you can believe in.
allow citizens to carry guns for protection....
watch the crime drop.
It is.
Just don’t ask: “Example of WHAT?”
That compares to 293 lost to hostile fire in Iraq over the same 16 months. Guess the Zero’s priorities should be to end the wars in Chicago, Afghanistan, and then Iraq.
No, wait a minute, that won't do ...
BS! They made it up!
I propose an Urban Draft at age 14 and let some Drill Sgt’s adjust attitudes.
“They should just make guns illegal in Chicago. That’ll fix it.”
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I think these misunderstood youths just need a “home they can call their own”. Home ownership will solve everything.
My SUV is currently demanding a “Honk if You’re Paying my Mortgage” bumpersticker.
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