After all the violent shit Chicago, America and the world in general has gone through, let's have the argument focus not on who is to blame, but how to stop it...
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How to stop guns, gangs and poverty? Chicago seeks solutions after violent 2016
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-violence-solutions-met-20161230-story.html
"When you are nothing, you have nothing to lose. The only way to become something is to pick up a gun." — William Sampson, DePaul University public policy studies department
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Five ways Trump can help solve Chicago gun crime
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40463689
1. Stop the flow of illegal guns
2. Overhaul Housing
3. Invest in afterschool programs
4. Federal assistance for jobs
5. More police resources
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We asked how to fix the gun problem. You said we must fix our world.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/working/editorial-31-bullets-campaign-fight-gun-violence/
From Bob Wirth, a west suburban police officer:
“My solutions are drastic, but I believe needed. Immediately ban the production and sale of ‘assault-style weapons’ and large capacity magazines for civilians. Those who currently own such firearms or magazines can keep them for a period of time — 8 or 10 years — after which they will be destroyed. Anyone possessing those items after that is subject to arrest and prosecution.
“Secondly, ban the production and sale of violent video games. They are too graphic and desensitizing. They are killing simulators.”
From Patti Pagni of Elmhurst:
“There’s a campaign called ‘Walk-Up’ in which instead of walking out of school, you encourage students to walk up to a fellow student who is sitting alone or isn’t invited to social happenings or included in fun conversations. I have been pushing that idea to my kids and their friends ever since I read about it.
“We sadly will always have mental illness and just plain evil, but many of the shooters we’ve seen have been troubled youth who were bullied or ignored. Many times they have come from broken homes.”
From Frances Lee of Ravenswood:
“We don’t need more guns. We need more love. More understanding. More trust. We need a mechanism, especially here in Chicago, to help children stay or get out of gangs. We need to find a way to let children know that if they are being abused at home, there is a place they can go where they will be safe and be helped. Yep, this is not as easy as throwing more guns into a grade school, but it is what we must do.”
From Toni Gilpin of Evanston:
“I could not watch the video [of teachers at a gun range] linked to your editorial last week unveiling your 31 bullets campaign. Why not? Because before the video played, I had to sit through an ad for a video game called ‘War Thunder’ that featured tanks destroying their targets, and airplanes engaged in dogfights and carpet-bombing buildings. Many more than 31 bullets were discharged in that 15-second spot.
“The countless rounds of ammunition fired in this game aptly reflect how we approach conflict resolution when it comes to other countries. Why shouldn’t individuals on Chicago’s streets feel the same way? One of the points you might make as your campaign continues is that our government’s long-standing bipartisan commitment to violence as our primary foreign policy helps foster our embrace of gun violence and gun use at home.”
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Just by talking about the problem in Chicago (as well as many other major cities facing gun violence) we bring the issue back into the cultural consciousness, where it should be. My hope is that people can start to focus their attention and actions less on materialistic and trivial entertainment (click bait) and focus on the major problems like this, that seemingly get ignored year after year.
If you start with this kind of argumentation you should look outside the US bubble.
