Will Obama answer the call?

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...sident_chicagos_gun_victims_need_you_now.html

It’s really not much of an exaggeration to say that parts of Chicago resemble a war zone. The numbers are grim. Unofficially, there were 513 homicides in Chicago in 2012, nearly 100 more than New York City, which recorded 414 killings but which has a population three times larger. Chicago’s body count is 200 more than the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan last year. The carnage has continued unabated into the New Year.

Consider this, Mr. President: During the first 16 days of January, 26 people have been killed by guns in Chicago -- the exact same number as at Sandy Hook Elementary School. By the time this year is out, the south and west sides of the city we both call home will have endured, in terms of sheer numbers of people killed, the equivalent of 20 Sandy Hook massacres. That’s on top of the equivalent of the 19 Sandy Hooks the city experienced in 2012.

The other sad reality, Mr. President, is that almost nothing proposed this week in Washington, D.C., by your administration will do anything to stem the tide of gun violence in our inner cities. Most of these crimes were not committed with semi-automatic assault weapons, they weren’t committed by the mentally ill, and they won’t be stopped by universal background checks.


If you are serious about doing everything in your power to curb gun violence and save lives, then you must harness your immense popularity in Chicago -- and in other big cities -- to address the elephant in the room: the failures of a society grown coarsened, desensitized to violence, and too tolerant of such carnage.

Will Obama address this? Hold a press conference photo op with a bunch of kids behind him? Or will he continue to ignore the carnage in his adopted home town?

 

[Howey]

Inner city violence is nothing new.

 

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...sident_chicagos_gun_victims_need_you_now.html

Will Obama address this? Hold a press conference photo op with a bunch of kids behind him? Or will he continue to ignore the carnage in his adopted home town?

Aw, gee - ya didn't like that press conference, eh?

Inner cities have been ignored forever, largely due to conservative "tough love" policies. If you want to go through that history, I'm all for that debate.

The best way to stem the tide of this violence is economic opportunity through better education.

 

[The Dude]

So him addressing gun violence is not related!
Supertool

 

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Aw, gee - ya didn't like that press conference, eh?

Didn't see the photo op... just saw the photo after the fact. Good little Cheeseball that he is.

Inner cities have been ignored forever, largely due to conservative "tough love" policies. If you want to go through that history, I'm all for that debate.

Then lets have it. Should be interesting given that most of the larger inner cities are and have been controlled by Democrats the better part of the past 60 years.

I would love to hear what 'conservative tough love' policies you are referring to.

In the midst of that discussion, I would like to address the point of this article. That in a city with some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, more people have been gunned down than in Afghanistan. The same number that died at Sandy Hook have died in Chicago so far this year. The other point is that while Obama's presidential action statements have some merit, many are irrelevant when it comes to stopping this violence.

Yet another point of the article is why have we (the people and the media) allowed ourselves to become so desensitized to this that it isn't already a national discussion.

The best way to stem the tide of this violence is economic opportunity through better education.

I agree with that, but it is a pipe dream until the mindset changes within the inner cities.

 

[The Dude]

Young blacks grades are up since Obama.
Hopefully a decline in gang activity will result!