No need to start name calling. I never claimed to be some kind of professional news anchor who knows intimate details on areas of a country I never intend to live in. It's a story I saw and thought I'd just show other people, simple as that. Guess that makes me ignorant though, oh well.Sober Thal said:
Strain theory dude, how can you move to a better place when you don't have the economic means too? Unless one chooses to break law and/or opts for a lower standard of living.zelda2fanboy said:
Flawed logic is flawed. It's not hard to obtain drugs, but those are illegal.NameIsRobertPaulson said:The south side of Chicago is not the worst section of the U.S. (the probably belongs to the unholy Flint, Detroit, Lansing combo in Michigan) but it is not a place you want to be in very long. Got a rock put threw my car while I was riding to a White Sox game. And that was in broad daylight.
This is sad, but not surprising.
While true, it would have been harder to obtain them.Dirty Hipsters said:This was a couple of gangsters having a shoot out, and a little girl getting hit accidentally. I can absolutely guarantee you that none of the people in that shoot out had legally bought and licensed guns, and I can also guarantee you that no gun control laws would have prevented them from illegally buying them.Powereaver said:Another sad story from the US involving guns... when will they learn? probably never
Making more laws for them to break would have made it harder? lolwutNameIsRobertPaulson said:
The thing is, they probably couldn't AFFORD a better home, and the parents may not have been able to do anything about it.DVS BSTrD said:
Sorry to say it, but this man speaks the truth.DVS BSTrD said:
See above post. Like I said, Chicago is expensive. There are cheaper less shitty places to get to, and these people probably could have moved. It's not like Detroit where it's been crap for years and no one cares, so everything is cheap. Chicago's a relatively nice place that just so happens to have roving bands of killers.SaneAmongInsane said:
No one being killed at gun shows isn't true.Clearing the Eye said:
Exactly! That's why we should guillotine them, charge people to see (victims families get in free), and reduce taxes slightly (for money earned and money saved on prison)!Clearing the Eye said:
Exactly! That's why we should guillotine them, charge people to see (victims families get in free), and reduce taxes slightly (for money earned and money saved on prison)!Clearing the Eye said:
Still. One has to rent a u-haul truck, get cardboard boxes, tape, buy/rent a new location (while still paying for the current one), not to mention uprooting their location could very well be at the cost of a steady job... which in this economy is a commodity.zelda2fanboy said:
Awe, come on, don't be so sour. There are better issues to make a stand on. Stop being such a child about all of this. ;DWitty Name Here said:
To be honest if I was shot and died horribly in some reasonless accident like this I'd much rather have people cracking jokes. I'd feel horrible if all my short life amounted to was a reason for lots of people to sigh and feel depressed for a brief moment before they forgot about it a few hours later.Witty Name Here said:
Does that really count? The poster you quoted was about people shooting other people. That little boy clearly shot himself.zelda2fanboy said:
^ this. I love my guns, but if there is one thing you don't do, it's give an 8 year old an uzi. Seriously, I wouldnt trust anyone but my closest friends with a machine/submachine gun within 2 miles of me, let alone a little kid who probably doesnt have the strength to control the recoil.SaneAmongInsane said:
