Tuesday - September 04, 2007

Gun-Free Bliss

Chicago, for all intents and purposes, is supposed to be gun-free.  That is, there are an abundance of real laws on the books that should keep any type of handgun out of the city.  It is ILLEGAL to have a handgun in Chicago, period.

Here’s the news from the long weekend:

* A 26-year-old man was shot and killed while he and two friends were riding bicycles home after eating in the area of North and Western avenues at about 3:22 a.m. Chris Himel suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the chest at 1513 N. Maplewood Ave.

* The body of 27-year-old Luis Gonzalez was found in the street at 1907 N. Keystone Ave. at about 11:20 a.m. Gonzalez, of the 4100 block of N. St. Louis Ave., was found in a back yard, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. An autopsy found that Gonzalez died of a gunshot wound to the back and his death was ruled a homicide.

* Two men were shot, one critically injured, in separate gang-related shootings that occurred minutes apart and about a mile away from each other on the South Side Friday afternoon.

A gunshot victim was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital from a shooting about 1 p.m. at 2525 W. 45th St., according to Fire Media Affairs spokesman Richard Rosado.

At 1:14 p.m., a Fire Department ambulance was sent to West 42nd Street and South Albany Avenue for another gunshot victim, who was critically injured and also taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, Rosado said.

The men were both shot on the street in unrelated incidents that appeared gang-related, according to a Deering District police lieutenant.

*Two men were wounded—one fatally—in a drive-by shooting in the West Pullman neighborhood Friday night. They were standing on the sidewalk on the 12000 block of South Wentworth Avenue when a red Oldsmobile Cutlass pulled up and someone started shooting. Leroy Fentress, 23, of the 12000 block of S. Wentworth Ave., was killed in the shooting. The other man, a 24-year-old, was shot in the right ankle.

No, that wasn’t the whole weekend....that was Friday.

Here’s Saturday, Sunday and Monday:

* A 17-year-old Harvey man was killed and two other males, ages 15 and 18, were wounded in a shooting in the West Side’s Lawndale neighborhood early Saturday.

*Officers heard shots fired in the 1600 block of South Homan Avenue about 4 a.m. Saturday and found an unidentified man in his 20s who had been shot multiple times. The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

* A 24-year-old man was killed while picking up food from a South Side takeout restaurant in what police say may have been a gang-related shooting on the South Side Saturday night.

*A 29-year-old man was killed and a woman, whose age was unknown, was injured in a shooting at a party in a vacant lot on the South Side Saturday night.

*A 26-year-old man was seriously wounded when he was shot multiple times in a robbery attempt on the 8100 block of South Kingston Avenue about 11:50 p.m. Saturday.

*Saturday’s violence wasn’t confined to the city. A 16-year-old boy, identified as Rick Ybarr, was found lying on the ground near an alley behind 1239 Otto Boulevard in Chicago Heights late Saturday. The boy appeared to have suffered two gunshot wounds—one to the front of his left thigh and one to the lower right abdomen—and was pronounced dead just before 4 a.m. Sunday.

*Early Sunday, two drive-by shootings happened blocks away and about a half-hour apart from each other on the Northwest Side.

The first shooting took place in the 2500 block of North Tripp Avenue about 2:30 a.m.  A 22-year-old man was walking when two men drove by and fired at him, striking him in the left foot.
At about 3:10 a.m., a 31-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to both legs when two gunman fired at him from a passing vehicle as he walked on the 2400 block of North Kostner Avenue.

*A shooting at a traffic light on the South Side Sunday left a 22-year-old man dead and the female driver injured.

* Two men were killed Sunday evening in a drive-by on the South Side.

*Two men were shot, one reportedly fatally, while traveling in a car on the South Side Sunday night.

* Five people were wounded in an apparent gang-related shooting on the Northwest Side early Monday.

So I count about 25 people killed or injured by what is supposed to be completely impossible in the Windy City. 

Hey gun banners:  What is your answer to this?  Do you want us to believe that passing yet another round of bans will change one damn thing?  What would the outcomes of some of these incidents have been had the victims been able to defend themselves legally?

Posted by Drew458     on 09/04/2007 at 11:36 AM   
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