Emanuel responded that crimes such as burglary, armed robbery and theft are down 10%. This is true, but it's small comfort to the parents of Heaven Sutton, 7, who was killed as she tried to dodge bullets fired from the guns of gangbangers. She was selling snow cones at the time.
Heaven didn't get quite the attention of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman. When perceived racism can be invoked as a cause of death, headlines blare. When it happens in a city beset by liberalism's failures, crickets chirp.
http://news.investors.com/article/617687/201207101851/obama-hometown-chicago-murder-capital.htm
There's an easily observable human characteristic of ignoring the chronic peril and over-reacting to the novel peril. Crazy. I'd bet cars, poisons and pools kill more kids than virtually anything - where's the outrage? What about kid deaths due to alcohol? Second hand smoke? Obesity driven by junk food? We are physiologically unable to keep perspective.
Heaven didn't get quite the attention of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman. When perceived racism can be invoked as a cause of death, headlines blare. When it happens in a city beset by liberalism's failures, crickets chirp.
http://news.investors.com/article/617687/201207101851/obama-hometown-chicago-murder-capital.htm
There's an easily observable human characteristic of ignoring the chronic peril and over-reacting to the novel peril. Crazy. I'd bet cars, poisons and pools kill more kids than virtually anything - where's the outrage? What about kid deaths due to alcohol? Second hand smoke? Obesity driven by junk food? We are physiologically unable to keep perspective.
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