I notice in passing that while the nation is up in arms
about one shooting in Florida last year, there were 48 shootings in Chicago alone
just this last weekend, 11 of them fatal, and apparently encompassing all the
racial possibilities – white shooting white, black shooting black, white shooting
black and black shooting white. Strange
how none of that made the national news, or is being commented upon by the usual
civil rights figures, or causing demonstrations in the streets.
Chicago is more dangerous to Americans than Iraq or Afghanistan, at least in terms of casualties.
Where is our sense of proportion?
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