Eighty-seven people shot in twenty-four hours.
Over this past July 4th weekend Eighty-seven people suffered gunshot wounds during the Independence weekend. Seven of those victims did not survive; one being a seven-year old male.
Chicago seems like a thing of tall tales; a third-world country in the middle of the best nation on Earth. High death and crime counts aren’t foreign to the area (guns are banned in Chicago by the way). Whenever we hear the name uttered across newscast it’s almost always connected a recent tragedy or the fight over guns to remedy these travesties.
What blows my mind is that this is a daily occurrence. Parents don’t let their children play outside and going to the playground is out of the question.
There have been talks of rebuilding these neighborhoods. Talks of tearing down the crime-ridden buildings and replacing them with abodes fit for doctors and lawyers. Naturally this would result in property values increasing and the residents having to disperse and construct another high-poverty high-crime area. Because high poverty rates tend to be associated with high crime.
The cycle of the innocent dying seems like a saga that’s never-ending.
Over this past July 4th weekend Eighty-seven people suffered gunshot wounds during the Independence weekend. Seven of those victims did not survive; one being a seven-year old male.
Chicago seems like a thing of tall tales; a third-world country in the middle of the best nation on Earth. High death and crime counts aren’t foreign to the area (guns are banned in Chicago by the way). Whenever we hear the name uttered across newscast it’s almost always connected a recent tragedy or the fight over guns to remedy these travesties.
What blows my mind is that this is a daily occurrence. Parents don’t let their children play outside and going to the playground is out of the question.
There have been talks of rebuilding these neighborhoods. Talks of tearing down the crime-ridden buildings and replacing them with abodes fit for doctors and lawyers. Naturally this would result in property values increasing and the residents having to disperse and construct another high-poverty high-crime area. Because high poverty rates tend to be associated with high crime.
The cycle of the innocent dying seems like a saga that’s never-ending.
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