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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Yea, sounds like See BS to me also.....
How much Federal and State money has Obama sent, to Chicago schools?
I read that Chicago teachers and administrators are among the highest paid in the country. Why did McCain stay so silent about the high murder rate, within the Chicago schools?
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Total lies!
Look at these three facts:
1. Guns are illegal in Chicago
2. It is illegal to shoot children
3. Schools are gun free zones
Obviously this can’t be happening.
That isn't even a joke - it is literally what these people are all about.
Twenty-five Chicago Public School students have been murdered this year.
Silence from the following is deafening:
1) NEA
2) Richard Daily and the the city leadership
3) Teacher Unions
4) NAACP
5) Media—only white surburban students get coverage if there is a shooting
6) “the Govenor of Illinois to be named later”
7) parents who should be going ape-sh!t over this!!!
Yes, total BULL.
And he is head of a 25,000 member education organization and has a lot of control over what goes in textbooks.
He and his Comrade-in-arms Obama are responsible.
Yes, but how many of them actually DIED?
Perhaps they all need gun safety classes and more range time.
In the same way, terrorism (a word left-wing maggots rarely, if ever, use) on anything and anyone BUT young muslim men.
GET REAL demonRATS!
They probably have gangs operating out in the open in most school yards and in some hallways.
They need to pass another law making illegal things even more illegal. (/sarc)
Damned good thing they’ve got those tough gun laws.
Idiots.
In the same way, LIBERAL GUN-GRABBERS BLAME terrorism (a word left-wing maggots rarely, if ever, use) on anything and anyone BUT young muslim men.
All this after all the money that has gone into community agitating in Chicago..., what’s the world coming to?
BS! They made it up!
Probably ... Actually they mean't to say "508 shot in 16 weeks", I mean, "5080 shot in 16 weeks", or "5080 shot in 16 days" ... Numbers mean nothing if you pick them out of the air ...
What about leanding the banks "$150 Quadrillion dollars" ... We can all play the game! What fun! Amaze your friends with your knowledge of big, big numbers!
It’s already here:
“This collapse will herald the arrival of an anti-Christian chapter of the post-Christian West. Intolerance of Christianity will rise to levels many of us have not believed possible in our lifetimes, and public policy will become hostile toward evangelical Christianity, seeing it as the opponent of the common good.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203179/posts
I live in a small town in Arizona. People here are allowed to carry a gun out in the open as long as they have a permit. How many shootings, robberies, and car jackings do you think we have? It’s not the responsible adults who legally buy guns that are the problem, it’s these young teenage idiots and adolescents that buy them illegally and know that the regular people don’t have guns.
Who was it who used to be a Senator from that area? He must have tried to do something about all the violence. I’m trying to remember the name...
The difficulty is that it's always had a violent crowd. For example, look at their premier education reformer, Bill Ayers.
He's a mad bomber, but not all that good at it. He managed to kill his girlfriend AND his boyfriend when they attempted to build a bomb based on his inadequate design.
You can't expect any better than that out of Chicago.
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