TexasBill
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As yet another murder of a Chicago-area student makes headlines and, according to Bloomberg News, is partially to blame for the city's failed Olympic bid, gun control activists are not receiving the support they expected from the Obama administration.
In a city with some of the most draconian firearms laws in the nation, at least 47 schoolchildren have been killed since January. While the latest murder was committed using splintered railroad ties, most of the homicides have been firearm-related. All told, 398 Chicago-area students have been shot in the past year, mostly by other students. While to anything with the intelligence of, say, a rock, this would indicate that Chicago's gun laws have been monumentally ineffective in preventing such shootings, the President's stance on gun control is being criticized. Bloomberg even dredges up a missed 1999 vote on a gun control bill that hurt Obama in his 2000 election campaign.
So pro-gun Americans vilify him as a threat to gun rights and anti-gun Americans want to crucify him because he isn't doing anything to add more controls.
When I was a kid, the promise of the future was, "Someday you could grow up to be President!" These days, who'd want to?
Read the piece for yourself at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a3duFSs.mpT4
In a city with some of the most draconian firearms laws in the nation, at least 47 schoolchildren have been killed since January. While the latest murder was committed using splintered railroad ties, most of the homicides have been firearm-related. All told, 398 Chicago-area students have been shot in the past year, mostly by other students. While to anything with the intelligence of, say, a rock, this would indicate that Chicago's gun laws have been monumentally ineffective in preventing such shootings, the President's stance on gun control is being criticized. Bloomberg even dredges up a missed 1999 vote on a gun control bill that hurt Obama in his 2000 election campaign.
So pro-gun Americans vilify him as a threat to gun rights and anti-gun Americans want to crucify him because he isn't doing anything to add more controls.
When I was a kid, the promise of the future was, "Someday you could grow up to be President!" These days, who'd want to?
Read the piece for yourself at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a3duFSs.mpT4
