We all know Gun Control obviously makes Chicago safer...

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5 shot outside Dunbar High School
January 9, 2009 9:34 PM | 5 Comments | UPDATED STORY

At least five people were wounded tonight, apparently when gunmen opened fire from inside a truck outside Dunbar High School on Chicago's South Side.

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A young man stands on the corner of 29th and Martin Luther King Drive, across the street from Dunbar High School (backround) where multiple people were shot. (Tribune / Charles Cherney)

Three people in critical-to-serious condition and two people in serious-to-fair condition were taken to area hospitals, said Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez.

Marcel Bright, Stroger Hospital spokesman, said a 15-year-old boy from the scene was being treated in serious but stable condition with multiple gunshot wounds.

A sixth victim from the scene had suffered a fall and was taken to a hospital in good condition, said Rodriguez.

All of the victims are "young people," Rodriguez said, but she couldn't confirm if they were students.

Shaneisha Turman 15, a freshman at Dunbar, at 3000 S. Martin Luther King Dr., said she was standing in the doorway of the school's gym when she saw a silver truck pull up to a bus stop at 29th Street and King Drive.

Turman said she saw the occupants of the truck pretend to shoot and then "they really started shooting."

She said she saw two people fall wounded.

People were shouting "they're shooting," Turman said. "It was a lot of people shouting and running."

Jason Moore, 18, said a basketball game against Hope High School was in double overtime and the score was tied 66-66 when shots were heard outside. School officials immediately canceled the game.

"We heard the bullets," Moore, who graduated from Dunbar last year, said. "We heard the shots."

Tierra Buile, 16, said she came out of the gymnasium after the shots rang out and saw two shooting victims.

"The people who got shot, they were just lying on the ground," said Buile, a Dunbar sophomore. Both were shot in a leg and were moving. She later heard that three others were shot at a bus stop on 31st Street.

Police News Affairs Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti confirmed five people have been shot outside the high school.

The first report of the shooting came into police at 7:49 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools spokesman Michael Vaughn said the CPS security director was on the way to the scene about 8:40 p.m. and would coordinate with Chicago police about briefing the media.

An Emergency Medical Services Plan 1 had been called, sending at least six ambulances to the scene, according to fire officials.
 
This happened near a Chicago high school. That these people were literate is quite a leap of faith.
 
Not to paint with a broad brush, but Martin Luther King Road says it all.

You know, the same thing happened where I grew up on Seattle's Empire Way when changed to MLK, & when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton where Hill St was changed to MLK (city: Oceanside)

Why do things go downhill like that? There has to be a reason. Bizarre...
 
What do you expect from a place where:

1. Only criminals (including politicians and the Chicago PD) have the ability to protect themselves?

2. The police department is so corrupt, incompetent and mindlessly violent, it amounts to little more than a third rate criminal gang?

3. The populace is divided rigidly along racial and ethnic lines, and reflexively blames ANY problem on their designated racial or ethnic "enemy"?

It's not surprising that Chicago had over 500 murders last year. It's surprising that they ONLY had 500 murders last year.

Chicago is Zimbabwe with snow and Mayor Daley a White Robert Mugabe.

Wait until something REALLY serious happens in Chicago, like a major terrorist attack. Chicago will make Mogadishu in the '90s look like Zurich during a cuckoo clock festival.
 
There is a stigma with any street named MLK it seems. There is one down in Lakewood where we had to make deliveries. There are signs on each side of the Housing Area that read "You are entering a quality of life enforcement zone". I do not think anyone read it.
 
What do you expect from a place where:

2. The police department is so corrupt, incompetent and mindlessly violent, it amounts to little more than a third rate criminal gang?

Hey that is just bashing. Everyone knows that the Chicago PD is a 1st rate criminal gang!:D
 
It's not surprising that Chicago had over 500 murders last year. It's surprising that they ONLY had 500 murders last year.

Only 500 (508 or 509) were reported last year. Chicago crime statistics are as suspect as the folks who report them.
 
This is why we need teacher CCW. BTW, I'll bet the weapon of choice was a handgun,

How could the criminal have used a handgun in Chicago? I thought handguns were banned there? Are you saying that even though they are banned criminals can get them anyway? :rolleyes:
 
That's why I pointed that out. Of course, this kind of thing doesn't usually happen, someone ignoring the gun free zone and the handgun ban. :uhoh:
 
Happens. Would happen in any big city. Get that many people together in one place, someone is going to do something crazy every now and again.

But, it would be tough to say that is the only factor. Have to admit there is a lot to a town being seperated along ethno-cultural lines, having corrupt politicos, and apolicy of discouraging people from protecting themselves.

As for MLK street. He would be spinning in his grave.
 
Chris Rock said it best:

"You know what's wild? Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence. Now what's Martin Luther King? A street. And I don't give a f**k where you live in America, if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going down!"
 
Chris Rock said it best:

"You know what's wild? Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence. Now what's Martin Luther King? A street. And I don't give a f**k where you live in America, if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going down!"

It's funny - he's allowed to say that (and he's absolutely right) but let white people do the same thing and we're racists all of a sudden. If any white person in a position of power said something like that, he would immediately be forced to resign and his name would be utterly disgraced. He would probably have death threats against him and his house might be vandalized.
 
That's true, but it's not just with color. Rich people can't make fun of poor people. Skinny people can't make fun fat people. Abled people can't make fun of disabled people. Young people can't make fun of old people (well... maybe). Our society is riddled with double standards.
 
Yeah but race is really where the controversy lies. Those other things are merely politically-incorrect but you do something "racist" nowadays and your life is OVER. "Racist" is essentially like what "communist" was in the 1950s. It's a bombshell that can totally destroy someone's life and reputation. You get hit with that label and it's over. You might as well be a child molester.

It has created an unbelievable culture of self-entitlement - the idea that because there's racism in America, and it's SO evil, that those who are the "victims" of said "racism" are basically justified in anything that they do - riot, crime, horrible parenting and broken families, etc...removing all accountability from said victims.

How is this gun related? Because WE pay the price for their firearm-related "expressions of anti-racist sentiment." WE pay the price for all the crimes committed "because" of the "evil racist social inequality." Law abiding gun owners of every color and culture get screwed because crime is commimtted (predominantly by blacks and hispanics) and since it can't be their fault because of all the racism in society, it must be something else's fault - the gun's fault. That's how it ties in. Believe me, everything ties in together. It's all part of the same big problem with our country.
 
They must have failed to notice the "Gun Free Zone" sign that was most certainly there.

No, they saw the signs but since they were educated in the Chicago School System, they could not read it and so they did not ditch their weapons to be in compliance with the weapon free zone.

Maybe the solution is to have written sign facilitators paid for by the taxpayer so that each written sign has another government employee standing next to it to read it out loud to people who can't or don't read. They can also do it in sign language as they read the sign for those who are auditorily differently abled (is that the right PC term)? Of course, we would also have to hire people who spoke all different languages so non-English speakers can also understand the signs. Maybe put signs in Braille too.

It would be great because then nobody will be discriminated against when it comes to written signs and we create a ton of new jobs to stimulate the economy!
 
That's true, but it's not just with color. Rich people can't make fun of poor people. Skinny people can't make fun fat people. Abled people can't make fun of disabled people. Young people can't make fun of old people (well... maybe). Our society is riddled with double standards.

I agree, as a young, skinny, healthy, rich, white male, I can't make fun of anyone but myself and I get bored of that after a few hours.
 
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