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 BUILDINGOn 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.”
Blithe Spirit 
More laws against guns (there are already too many common sense gun laws) will not stop these senseless youthful gang killings. Instead of the planned Friday march by Rev. Michael Pfleger and the Chicago Public Schools to the State of Illinois Building to demand more common sense gun laws, Rev. Pfleger should be assisting with organizing rallies in schools to point out to kids the outcome of extreme violence — death. Often death for a young person is something that is not going to happen for a long, long time. They think they are invincible! Shocking movies should be shown that bring home the terrible aftermath of gun violence. I believe this was done in dealing with the issue of driving drunk, where death resulted, to high school students. My idea might be a pie-in-the-sky scheme, but something must be done to make death real to young people. Certainly more gun laws won’t solve the terrible epidemic of violence in the Chicago Public schools.
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I agree with Nancy Thorner. The problem isn’t with people having guns for self-protection. The problem is the willingness of a certain element (gangs, anyone?) who protect their turf by violence. With all the gun control laws in the world, these criminals will still steal or buy guns off illegal dealers to continue their illegal operations. such immoral people hasve no regard for any laws.
It’s time for Rev. Pfleger to start talking about the Ten Commandments and the moral law of the Church he represents to the people he is responsible for shepherding to eternal life. He needs to get real with his flock and stop meddling in politics.
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