Three-year-old boy among 42 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

[Jazzy]

Five people were killed and at least 42 were wounded - including a 3-year-old boy - by gun violence in Chicago over the weekend, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

Authorities said the 3-year-old was accidentally shot in the head Friday around 7:30 p.m. after he or a sibling discharged the gun at a home on the city's west side, according to the paper. The child was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

The child's father, 26-year-old James Jenkins, was charged Sunday with a felony count of unlawful use of a weapon by a parolee, prosecutors said. He was ordered held on $500,000 bail.

The Sun-Times reports the most recent fatal shooting occurred Sunday afternoon in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, when police said 14-year-old Marcus McCarty was approached by two males at about 2:52 p.m. One of the males was armed and allegedly fired shots at the boy, hitting him in the back. Police said the two suspects then fled the scene in a dark Infiniti. McCarty was pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later.

A few hours earlier, another teenager was shot to death in the city's Little Village neighborhood, according to the paper. Sixteen-year-old Victor Martinon was talking to friends on a sidewalk just before 6 a.m. when officers said two people walked up to him, shouting gang slogans. The people opened fire, hitting Martinon twice in the chest.

Three other men were also fatally shot over the weekend, reports the Sun-Times. Dozens more were injured in gun-related incidents since 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

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Never go to Chicago!

 

[TommyTooter]

why? tourists don't get killed. that's all happening in the ghetto.

 

[TommyTooter]

the biggest problem with gun violence isn't from criminals. some 60% of all gun deaths are suicide. of the ones ruled homicide, 40% are designated to be unknown motives, most often a crime of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or a friends. 3% are an accident, like that toddler. it was heartening to see the father charged, but i suspect that a white person who was not on parole wouldn't have been charged.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

the biggest problem with gun violence isn't from criminals. some 60% of all gun deaths are suicide. of the ones ruled homicide, 40% are designated to be unknown motives, most often a crime of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or a friends. 3% are an accident, like that toddler. it was heartening to see the father charged, but i suspect that a white person who was not on parole wouldn't have been charged.

First off personal suicide is not gun violence it is just a method of choice to end there lives. So as smooth said gun control does not work. It would be like calling hanging yourself with a belt, belt violence. In the news today comedian and actor Robin Williams dies at the hands of violent personal belt death.

 

[TommyTooter]

the biggest problem with gun violence isn't from criminals. some 60% of all gun deaths are suicide. of the ones ruled homicide, 40% are designated to be unknown motives, most often a crime of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or a friends. 3% are an accident, like that toddler. it was heartening to see the father charged, but i suspect that a white person who was not on parole wouldn't have been charged.

First off personal suicide is not gun violence it is just a method of choice to end there lives. So as smooth said gun control does not work. It would be like calling hanging yourself with a belt, belt violence. In the news today comedian and actor Robin Williams dies at the hands of violent personal belt death.

now you're being silly. suicide is an act of violence against oneself and semantics or not, 60% of all gun deaths are suicide and a huge portion of the homicides are crimes of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or friend. the statistics are very clear that a gun in the home is far less likely to injure or kill an intruder than oneself or a family member. so much so that the AMA issued a statement about it.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

the biggest problem with gun violence isn't from criminals. some 60% of all gun deaths are suicide. of the ones ruled homicide, 40% are designated to be unknown motives, most often a crime of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or a friends. 3% are an accident, like that toddler. it was heartening to see the father charged, but i suspect that a white person who was not on parole wouldn't have been charged.

First off personal suicide is not gun violence it is just a method of choice to end there lives. So as smooth said gun control does not work. It would be like calling hanging yourself with a belt, belt violence. In the news today comedian and actor Robin Williams dies at the hands of violent personal belt death.

now you're being silly. suicide is an act of violence against oneself and semantics or not, 60% of all gun deaths are suicide and a huge portion of the homicides are crimes of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or friend. the statistics are very clear that a gun in the home is far less likely to injure or kill an intruder than oneself or a family member. so much so that the AMA issued a statement about it.

I dont find it silly at all. Its a act personal violence not gun violence. There is a reason when the leftist news media reports suicide they dont add the words of the object used to commit suicide ever unless it is a gun. And that is a anti gun agenda. So that 60% is crap.

 

[TommyTooter]

the biggest problem with gun violence isn't from criminals. some 60% of all gun deaths are suicide. of the ones ruled homicide, 40% are designated to be unknown motives, most often a crime of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or a friends. 3% are an accident, like that toddler. it was heartening to see the father charged, but i suspect that a white person who was not on parole wouldn't have been charged.

drop the leftist trash when you argue with me please. it makes you look stupid. i'm a centrist -- fair trade capitalist and constitutionalist.

First off personal suicide is not gun violence it is just a method of choice to end there lives. So as smooth said gun control does not work. It would be like calling hanging yourself with a belt, belt violence. In the news today comedian and actor Robin Williams dies at the hands of violent personal belt death.

now you're being silly. suicide is an act of violence against oneself and semantics or not, 60% of all gun deaths are suicide and a huge portion of the homicides are crimes of passion involving the gun owner, a family member or friend. the statistics are very clear that a gun in the home is far less likely to injure or kill an intruder than oneself or a family member. so much so that the AMA issued a statement about it.

I dont find it silly at all. Its a act personal violence not gun violence. There is a reason when the leftist news media reports suicide they dont add the words of the object used to commit suicide ever unless it is a gun. And that is a anti gun agenda. So that 60% is crap.

it totally depends on how you look at it. your objection is in the way i presented the overall gun death statistics by leading into it the way i did. most people arguing gun regulations will eliminate that statistic when i personally feel that it's a core issue in the overall argument.

the 40% by unknown motivation that are likely to mostly be crimes of passion involving family members or friends of the gun owner is not crap and needs to be addressed somehow. there was a kid who blew his brother away a few days ago in an argument over some DVD's.

 

[Sinon]

The death of yet another child at the hands of an improperly-secured firearm is the saddest thing. It's another death that would've been prevented if absolute retards weren't allowed to own guns.