The date was January 12, 2013. You probably didn’t hear about this tragedy involving guns and two teenage boys. But this was the headline in the Chicago Tribune: “Boys, 14 and 15, killed in separate shootings Friday.” You didn’t hear about it because such events aren’t news in Chicago. They’re ordinary daily occurrences. As we continue to hear calls for ever-tightening gun laws from the Obama administration, and from states such as New York, it is worth thinking about those headlines in Chicago. And in inner cities all around America, places where strict gun laws are already in place.
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So let’s go back to that wretched January 12 story from Chicago, President Obama’s hometown. The murdered 14-year-old had a name, Rey Durante. He was gunned down by two shooters while standing on the porch of his Humboldt Park home. The two men opened fire, according to news accounts, near midnight, striking him multiple times in the chest.
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Twenty children and six adults were killed in Newtown, Conn., last month, and the media quickly, and justifiably, descended to tell the tragic story. In the first few weeks of January in Chicago, 25 people have already been murdered. Most were young black and Hispanic men, murdered by other young black and Hispanic men.

In Chicago, it’s Newtown every month. But the media haven’t converged on Chicago this month.
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You don’t know the names of those kids and adults gunned down in Chicago this January, all by handguns.

You don’t know the names because the media don’t or can’t blame the deaths in Chicago on a weapon like the AR-15, or on the NRA.

You don’t know their names because the media aren’t interested in getting at the real cause of much of the senseless gun violence in America: fatherlessness.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/3...men-lee-habeeb#

We need to stop sending billions of dollars to other countries and use the money to clean up our neighborhoods.
This is a tragedy & unacceptable!

Some gun shooting victims are more equal than others.

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You don’t know their names because the media aren’t interested in getting at the real cause of much of the senseless gun violence in America: fatherlessness.

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To admit that would open up a giant kettle of un-PC worms. It would require admitting that moral equivalence does not exist and that not all cultures are equal.

I wonder how many African-Americans will ever figure out that the left, including Lord Obama, doesn't give a rip about them.

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I wonder how many African-Americans will ever figure out that the left, including Lord Obama, doesn't give a rip about them.

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I wonder how many African-Americans will ever figure out that the left, including Lord Obama, doesn't give a rip about them.

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Certainly not enough! I know several black guys (old & young, wealthy & poor) from my church that know that, but they are few and far between.

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We need to stop sending billions of dollars to other countries and use the money to clean up our neighborhoods.
This is a tragedy & unacceptable!

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We need to stop sending billions of dollars to other countries and use the money to clean up our neighborhoods.
This is a tragedy & unacceptable!

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I'm something at a loss about what could possibly "clean up" those neighborhoods.

Since the 1960s so much money has been spent, with virtually zero benefit, and many would argue that the money has stimulated production of fatherless children, and destroyed the family, the community, and the people.

It was not a lack of money spent, it was a lack of good sense in spending money.

BTW the "end welfare as we know it" and "welfare for work" measures under Clinton with a GOP House majority, worked.

But they have essentially been abandoned, so back to square one under Obama.

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