justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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For me, a big question is
How, after YEARS of wrong policy, and a society that is wrapped in drug and gang culture, where violence is a daily concern, something the folks who live there know about, know where its most likely and avoid those places,, but people live there,, and where are the opportnities for these young people? How do they stand a chance of avoiding The Life? And If a young man decides to find a job at a grocery store and take his earnngs home to mom and help support his family, will the thugs in the neighborhood NOt shoot him for it?
The policies created this mess,, finding a way out, I just dont know,, when these are the headlines,,
CHICAGO - Sixty-four people were shot, 13 of them fatally, across Chicago over the weekend.
Fifteen-year-old Terrance Malden, who was gunned down about 4:50 p.m. Friday in Jeffery Manor on the South Side, was the weekend’s first victim. Five other teenagers were wounded in separate shootings between then and Monday morning.
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The alarming numbers marked a dip from the gun violence that befell the city over the Fourth of July weekend, when 79 people were shot, 15 fatally. Eleven of those victims were minors, and two of the children died from their injuries.
In the same weekend last year, nine people were killed and 32 more were wounded.
Monday morning
The most recent fatal attack left a man dead early Monday in Park Manor on the South Side.
The 27-year-old was on the street about 1:45 a.m. in the 6700 block of South Rhodes Avenue when someone fired shots from a vehicle, Chicago police said. He was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Less than an hour before that, a 26-year-old man was shot and killed in Lawndale on the West Side.
He was standing on the sidewalk about 12:24 a.m. in the 1500 block of South Homan Avenue when he was gunned down, police said. The man was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Sunday
Late Sunday night, a man was shot to death and two teenagers were wounded at a gas station in West Englewood on the South Side.
They were in a vehicle at a gas station at 11:28 p.m. in the 7000 block of South Damen Avenue when a silver SUV pulled up and someone inside started shooting, according to police. The driver, a 20-year-old man, was shot multiple times and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he died.
A 14-year-old boy was shot in the back and a 17-year-old boy was hit in the right arm, police said. Both were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in good condition.
Another attack earlier that night left a man dead and three people wounded in Englewood.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot about 9:47 p.m. found the 45-year-old man unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds in the 700 block of West 66th Place, police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Soon after, three other people showed up at St. Bernard Hospital saying they had been shot at the same location, police said. Two men, 27 and 33, and a 20-year-old woman were all shot in their legs, and all were in good condition.
Early Sunday morning, a 26-year-old man was shot dead in the same neighborhood.
About 5:15 a.m., he was standing in the 2100 block of West 71st Street when he heard shots and felt pain, Chicago police said. He was struck multiple times and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, whe
Whats the next step?
Whats the first step toward changing that society back to something that isnt a good storyline for a science fiction work?
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