A recurring talking point from Chicago political officials is that gun violence in Chicago is the fault of neighboring states that don’t have the gun laws that Illinois and Chicago have.
It’s never Chicago’s fault, it’s always Indiana or Wisconsin’s fault that a weekend can’t go by without racking up a double-digit body count in the Windy City.
Say that again.
2 Chicago gangbangers executed 9-year-old in revenge killing against his father’s rival gang: prosecutors
Two reputed Chicago gang members allegedly executed a 9-year-old boy in broad daylight because they sought revenge on the child’s father’s rival gang, which they blamed for gunning down family members, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Tyshawn Lee, 9, was in his school uniform when three men approached him in the South Side of Chicago in November 2015, prosecutors said during opening statements.
Prosecutors said Corey Morgan and Kevin Edwards kept watch while Dwight Doty lured the fourth grader into an alleyway. They said he promised him a juice box.
Doty then took out a .40-caliber handgun and shot Lee, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Margaret Hillmann said.
Prosecutors argued that Morgan and Doty targeted the 9-year-old because his father, Pierre Stokes, belongs to a rival gang — the Killa Ward faction of the Gangster Disciples. They said the two blame that gang for a shooting in October 2015 that killed Morgan’s brother and wounded his mother.
Kidnapping and executing a nine-year-old boy isn’t something that happens because of lax gun laws. This is something that happens because growing up in a crime-ridden, gang-infested neighborhood in Chicago, and becoming members of a violent street gang has turned these two men into monsters with shit for souls.
Gun permits and universal background checks to not stop the evil that is the methodical luring a child from his school with a juice box, to shoot him as a way of getting back at his father.
This is pure, unmitigated evil.
This is why gun control doesn’t work in Chicago.
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