I've been busy but I need to comment on these. I'll clean this up later, but except in one case, these kids are REALLY out of control! Actually, it's the PARENTS who have failed to properly raise and control their children!
I'm going to provide personal commentary later, but this is just over the top!
[ UPDATES to include article quoting and my own comments ]
Chicago Sadness
In all, 20 Chicago
public school students have been fatally shot so far this school year
-- seven in March alone -- compared with 24 the year before, said
spokesman Mike Vaughn. Including those who died in non-gun violence, 22
students have been killed this year, and 30 last school year. School
officials could not provide precise figures, but said that killings had
increased markedly over past years.
On Tuesday, hundreds of
Chicago public school students from four high schools gathered downtown
to protest the violence and to call for more gun-control measures, with
the school district sanctioning their absences and supplying buses, the
Associated Press
reported. Twenty empty school desks, each representing a fallen
student, were set up in front of the James R. Thompson Center, which
houses state offices.
A well-known anti-violence crusader on the
South Side, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, had also planned a community
rally Tuesday, and said St. Sabina Catholic Church will offer rewards
for information about the killings.
In response to the increased
violence, Chicago police have been increasing their presence at schools
and have begun monitoring live pictures from 4,500 school security
cameras.
This is a nice stand for the students to take, but gun control isn't the problem. The problem is their peers aren't controlling themselves and their peers aren't controlling themselves because their parents haven't taught them how to control themselves nor do their parents have control of them, their kids.
Teens abducted.
An Amber Alert has been issued for two teenage brothers apparently kidnapped after six gunmen invaded their Catonsville home yesterday, a Baltimore County police spokesman said.
Shortly before 3 a.m., six armed men wearing masks got out of a gray
Chevrolet Suburban in front of a house in the 600 block of Plymouth
Road and forced their way into the two-story house occupied by two
females and eight males, most of whom did not live there.
Once inside, the men awakened the occupants, binding their hands behind
their backs with tape and gagging them, said Cpl. Mike Hill, the
spokesman.
The armed intruders remained in the house for eight hours, until about
11 a.m., when they left with the brothers, Stephon Blackwell, 17, and
Sterling Blackwell, 16, in a black 2004 BMW 645 convertible that
belongs to one of the occupants.
You know there is more here. They were living dirty. In fact, "their home" is a group home and police "retrieved" a lot of money, at least, from the home.
7 Year Old with Gun
The guns came from his uncle's house. One tumbled from the boy's pocket
and onto the classroom floor. The other, police said, was found in his
locker after a teacher took the child to the principal's office.
The boy is 7 years old and in first grade at Randallstown Elementary School.
He was suspended and faces possible expulsion. But police said he will
not be charged with any crime, because there is no reason to believe he
intended to use the weapons - even though both were loaded, with
bullets in the chamber, ready to fire.
"It's a toy to him," said Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County police
spokesman. "This is a first-grader, a 7-year-old. He doesn't know the
repercussions of this or anything."
So, you mean to tell me that the parents never checked the boy's bag? After I spent time at someone else's house, my bag was checked. Then, there is the morning when you are going to school. No one checked the boy's bag then? And how can an uncle lose two guns and not know it? This doesn't add up, but if what is being reported is all there is, then, again, the adults didn't do their job.
He. Is. SEVEN. Years. Old!
Oh, this next one... But please read below the fold for a teenager who did the right thing.
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