Gun Control: On his way to a play date with the world's most famous? golfer, President Obama stops in America's most violent city to push universal? background checks that Chicago's violent street gangs will totally ignore.
Janay McFarlane, 18, was killed late Friday just hours after her younger? sister joined a group of teens onstage for President Obama's speech in Chicago? on gun violence.
McFarlane was shot to death hours after her little sister, Destini, 14, sat? just feet away as Obama spoke in the aftermath of the similar murder of Hadiya? Pendleton.
The 15-year-old Pendleton was gunned down in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood,? a few blocks from the high school she attended and a few days after she? performed with her high school band at Obama's inauguration. The park where she? was killed is less than a mile from the president's Kenwood home.
Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago last month, a? total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade,? after more than 500 murders in 2012.
This carnage in the nation's most gun-controlled city in America has been? blamed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others on the flow of guns into Chicago from? elsewhere ? notably suburban gun shops.
They do not explain why the areas outside Chicago don't have anywhere near? Chicago's murder rate. The Windy City's murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people? looks nothing like America's overall 4.2, the Midwest's 4.5 or Illinois' 5.6? rates.
As the president noted in his speech, of Chicago's 2012 murder victims, 65 of? them were 18 and under.
"That's the equivalent of a Newtown every four months," he said. "That's? precisely why the overwhelming majority of Americans are asking for some common? sense proposals to make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a? gun."
Yet, speaking of common-sense proposals, in 1999 when a bill came up in the? Illinois Senate to charge anyone carrying out a firearm attack on school? property as an adult, a law that would have largely affected gang members, our? current president voted "present."
The fact is that up to 80% of Chicago's murders and shootings are? gang-related, according to police.
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