Is there something sad and mysterious about this release from St. Sabina Church?

March 13, 2008 Vince Clark – 773.483.4300
ANOTHER C.P.S. STUDENT DIES
RALLY AT STATE OF ILLINOIS BUILDING

On Wednesday, another Chicago Public School student, Channon Taylor, died. Channon [age 18] was shot Saturday afternoon in the 1800 block of South Lawndale and died Wednesday. On Friday, March 14, as was promised, Rev. Michael Pfleger and Chicago Public Schools will lead a rally from
11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at The State of Illinois Building, located at 100 West Randolph.

Rev. Pfleger said, “Every time a child [!] dies we will put it in the face of state government and demand ‘Common Sense Gun Laws!’”

Please invite anyone to attend.

Why sad?  Why mysterious?  Besides the obvious reasons about kids being shot down on the street? 

It’s that city and neighborhood leadership, in this case religious, clings so tenaciously to a legislative straw as the solution to their problems.  [Candidate Obama wants no part of it, by the way.]

Is it too much to ask for evidence of correlation between tighter gun control and reduced killing?  Or of successful enforcement of the laws we have or might have?

Newspapers don’t discuss this.  Who does?

These people do, for what’s it’s worth — here and here and here — to pick the first three sites shown by Google when you type “gun control.”