Can you f'n believe this?

1. Why is this called "gun violence"?  The apparent fact that a large number of people who live in Chicago cannot go for any length of time without killing each other is not the fault of guns.  It is sheer folly and foolishness to make this a gun issue, to essentially give up on the possible redemption of people from such depraved behavior and blame the tools they use.

Let's take a couple of examples:

1. "Selton Ellis, 30, was standing near the front counter of a gas station near 72nd Street and South Chicago Avenue at 4:27 a.m. when a male entered and shot him multiple times in the torso, authorities said. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 5:18 a.m. He lived in the 7300 block of South Greenwood Avenue".

Two possibilities here; this was a random act by a depraved individual who was going to kill, no matter what or Mr. Ellis is involved in some shady business and this was someones way of solving a dispute.  In either case, it is not the gun that made this happen; it is simply a convenient target.

2.  "Saturday evening, a 20-year-old man was gunned down in the Southwest Side Gage Park neighborhood. Trayvon Wilson was washing his car about 7:15 p.m. in an alley near his home in the 5800 block of South Maplewood when someone walked up to him and fired shots, authorities said. Wilson, who lived on the same block as the shooting, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the back and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 8:41 p.m".

Carbon copy of the above - this was either someone out to kill another person for the sheer experience of it or was a deliberate killing over some form of criminal commerce. In either case, to call this "gun violence" rather than simply violence is an agenda-driven interpretation.

I could go on, but all of the examples would say the same thing.  Such killing is tragic.  But what is worse is that those who blame it on guns are saying that some people are simply irredeemable and evil or too immature and uncivilized to live around firearms, to have rights.  Rather than address the situation, they are, in essence, saying "We can't let these children have guns."