The President
gave a speech in Chicago recently. He acknowledged that Chicago's murder rates, even giving a couple of good quotes.
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The president, speaking at the Hyde Park Academy in Chicago's
Woodlawn neighborhood, lamented the losses in Newtown, Conn., in
December, and remarked on the "profound and uniquely heartbreaking" fact
that 20 of the victims were six years old.
But he also pointed out that "last year, there were 443 murders with a
firearm on the streets of this city, and 65 of those victims were 18
and under."
"That's an equivalent of a Newtown every four months," he said.
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He acknowledged that the violence isn't "just" a gun issue.
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"In too many neighborhoods today... it can feel like, for a lot of
young people, the future only extends to the next street corner," he
said. "There are entire neighborhoods where young people, they don't see
an example of somebody succeeding. For a lot of young boys and young
men in particular, they don't see examples of fathers and
grandfathers... who are in a position to support families and be held up
and respected."
"That means that this is not just a gun
issue," he continued. "It's also an issue of the kinds of communities
that we're building."
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But he forgot to mention that Chicago has the most oppressive gun control laws in the nation. Oops.
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