Yet another mass shooting

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Thirteen people were shot — including a 3-year-old boy — Thursday night at a South Side park when two gunmen opened fire on a group gathered at a basketball court in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.


As bullets began to fly about 10:15 p.m., the group scattered, taking cover wherever they could at Cornell Square Park, police and witnesses said.
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http://www.suntimes.com/22678686-761/13-shot-including-a-3-year-old-boy-in-back-of-the-yards.html

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Please be a little more careful with your choice of words in future.
 
Not sure why you lol'd either ? A 3 year old was shot in the face.

Aside from that - it was gang related (most likely a turf war related to drugs). Coupled with the fact there is massive reductions in police pay and numbers in the USA - and you have increasing crimes like this.
 
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When are those that stick up for America's current gun policies going to put their hands up and say yes, something needs to be done.
 
craptakular said:
Same thing over and over and they do nothing about it.
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To be clear, are you talking about gun crime, or gang crime?

What are you proposing they do exactly?

This is a gang crime going by the witness accounts (if the papers are to be believed), and not an out of the blue school/cinema/etc mass shooting. Doesn't make it any less serious as such, but seems like you were trying to tag it to mass shootings as such, rather than gang violence.

Huddy> I have some interesting discussions on Facebook (well I say interesting.. it is Facebook lol), and when I mention about guns not being the answer I get accused of all sorts of things, it really is amusing to read, like I have mortally offended them or something. People really are polarised over the issue it seems.
 
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craptakular said:
Ban all guns and ban gangs.
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You can't ban or stop gangs but you can inhibit their supply of guns. Only a crack down on the licensing and tighter control of guns can this be achieved. For America, this would take years to implement after they've even made an agreement in the first and they are no where near. Even then, there are no guarantees but something does need to be done and making a start is better than doing nothing and ignoring the issue completely.
 
Clearly its GTA V and Call of Duty Black ops II FAULT!!!!!!!

no one ever killed each other or had wars before those games and lived in peace dancing in rainbows...... Oh wait!!!!!!
 
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I'm loling at the fact that the 'lol america' comment was removed. This is a perfect 'lol america' moment. I think he was lolling at how pathetic the country is, not the fact a child got shot.
 
Chicago, I`ve been there few times... It has something like 4 times less population than NYC and yet more shootings/homicides.

For some reason, I felt perfectly safe there... As long as you are in city or somewhere in the north its fine, suburbs are ridicolously quiet and most of them havent seen crimes in ages...

Well apparently Illinois is legalizing conceal carry after new year, we`ll see how that works out.

Something like 90% of shootings happen in gang neighborhoods, so as long as you not there its fine.
 
Scougar said:
Maybe they are lolling at us for not having guns?
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On the contrary , I would take a guess they envy our gun policies. According wiki, our gun restrictions took place as early as 1903 with the first firearms act shaping up in 1920.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_po...Gun_control_legislation_in_the_United_Kingdom

It's interesting to read that there were some concerns over surplus arms being used after WW1 which would see an increase in gun crime. We had the good foresight to see and act on what was right under our noses at the time.

Nearly 100 years on, America still believe that they have a right to arm. Personally, i think people are taking their constitutional rights too far.
 
^^^ Good info :) Unlike turnip who was so willing to tar an entire country as pathetic... go you!

I do remember my wife telling me about an old guy she cared for who had his entire private gun collection taken from him, when they were bringing in new laws. Whilst I think it's a shame, I'm very glad there are not more gun's on the streets, or not as easily accessible as they could be.

I'm of the opinion that the general public can simply not be trusted with firearms. You get into a confrontation, and a gun is available to you, it's likely to be discharged. If you get into a real emotional fit, then you are likely to go and pick up your weapon, and then use it later. When those weapons are available to the slightly unhinged.... then look-out. (Criminals aside of course).

Unless they are made illegal, I may get a rifle/pistol, but I am pretty certain I won't be buying one as a carry (unless that is part of my employment). I don't trust my inexperience with firearms in those situations. (Ironically going against my previous line of thinking... lol).
 
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