Chicago area congressman wants CDC to get involved in fight against gun violence – CBS2 (Chicago)

In Joliet Monday, 13-year-old Manuel Mejia Perez was shot and killed in an alley. The Will County State's Attorney's office charged a 15-year-old boy with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of unlawful possession of a weapon. And in Matteson Tuesday, a 13-year-old boy is accused of shooting and wounding a 15-year-old boy outside the Matteson Community Center. "And that's why I want to fix the problem," said U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson. "A 13-year-old cannot go into a gun shop."
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Tiny
10 months ago

There is no such thing as ” gun violence!”. There is violence committed with a gun, as there is violence committed with a knife or a rock or a poison or a fist. Lock up criminals with harsh sentences and stop blaming inanimate objects.

Bud Dark
10 months ago

The scariest words in the English language are when a Democrat says “I want to fix the problem.” 🙂
(Apologies to Ronald Reagan.)

I M Intelligent
10 months ago

Ok, let’s try pubic hanging of convicted murderers like America used to?
Video evidence especially useful like in Luigi’s upcoming case!

Hello, Indiana!
10 months ago

Sherlock Jackson is right. I wonder if the venerable detective ever pondered that folks in his community aren’t paying their offspring any mind and have no idea as to where they are most of the time, what they are doing and whether they are packing or not? It’s rather elementary.

David F
10 months ago

What type of “Disease” does a firearm have?
Do they catch it by touching the firearm or is it the PERSON with the problem and not the firearm?

Bear19
10 months ago
Reply to  David F

Maybe putting a mask on will help ? Or 6 feet apart, or shutting the whole state down will fix it – these people are ridiculous, arrest the sh**heads and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law with prison time problem solved

Fullbladder
10 months ago

Mr. Jackson, Americans aren’t about to give up their 2nd Amendment rights because the Democrats won’t stop shooting at each other.

Jdoe
10 months ago

Jackson is right. When gun violence goes unaddressed people move to safer areas. Like Matteson.

Jdoe
10 months ago

Just like Jackson says when gun violence persists people move to safer areas. Like Matteson and Country Club Hills.

Tiny
10 months ago
Reply to  Jdoe

So the guns must behave differently in those areas?

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