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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...
Hey, Leroy only packed a .32. These days, he’d get laughed at.
This is true.
It’s a urban black-on-black violence problem.
It is not a law-abiding gun owner problem.
Actually, if you check (NRA-ILA gun law summary for AZ), you'll find that carrying "out in the open" requires no permit. Only carrying concealed.
The original prohibitions on concealed carry assumed that only someone up to no good would hide the fact of being armed. Then, in most states, they decided that carrying openly was "threatening", "disturbing" or otherwise against good order or some such claptrap, and banned that as well.
Actually, I realized after I wrote my comment that I misspoke. Thanks for the clarification.
ping for later
Boarding schools! They need boarding schools!
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