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Man shot to death in Fairmount development in Hyde Park
By adamg on Fri, 11/08/2024 - 8:09pm
A man was shot behind 205 Garfield Ave. in Hyde Park around 1:15 p.m. He was declared dead at the scene.
About ten minutes later, police detained a man a few doors down.
Animal Control had to be called in to take custody of the suspect's pit bull, inside the suspect's apartment.
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I've lost all faith in our
I've lost all faith in our gun laws, no matter who or what we vote for, and any hope that shootings in our neighborhoods will stop being accepted as part of living here
Counterpoint
Our rates of gun crime per capita are astronomically lower than states with permissive gun laws.
Great oversimplification
You're looking at one aspect and are fooled into believing that our overly restrictive gun laws mean better outcomes for the situation. Other parameters like socioeconomic issues need to be studied. No one ever thinks to ask young people why they feel the need to resort to illegal firearms as a protective mechanism. Instead there's a great outcry over easy access to guns, followed by a demand to "lock up the perpetrators and throw away the key". When said perpetrators actually do "pay a debt to society" their struggles are ones of economic inequality, a barring from almost every job and a likely return to gun life. The people like David Linsky and Michael Day making pointless new gun laws instead of spending time with black, poor kids actually do very little to help the overall problems.
It seems like a culture thing to me.
Doesn't matter who you vote for the culture behind the gun violence needs to be changed.
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We do not know the facts of this case yet.
Was this shooting in self defense? Was it murder?
When the facts of the case are revealed, we will know.
Gun laws make it more difficult for legal guns to make it to the streets. Gun laws have zero effect on illegal weapons.
It is a sad day when a young person dies in this way, regardless of the facts.