Say Hello to Gun Control. Girl that performed at obama inaguration shot dead

[AngryBaby]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...n-chicago?lite

girl who performed at obama's inaguration shot dead in chicago.

damn, sad...almost seems too perfect.....anyway!

A 15-year-old girl who performed at President Obama's inauguration last week was shot dead Tuesday while hanging out with friends in bullet-scarred Chicago.

Hadiya Pendleton -- described by a relative as a “walking angel” -- was standing under a canopy in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park when a gunman ran down an alley, opened fire at the group and fled in a white car, police said.

Pendleton was shot in the back but managed to run about a block before she collapsed, officer Laura Kubiak said. She died at the hospital.

A 16-year-old boy was wounded in the 2:20 p.m. incident. Police said Pendleton, who had no criminal record, was probably not the intended target.

Advertise | AdChoices“As usual, the bad guy aims, but he never hits the other bad guy . . . He hits the one that hurts the most to lose,” the victim’s godfather, Damon Stewart, 36, who is a police officer, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

“I changed her diapers, I played with her growing up. My heart is broken.”

A sophomore at selective King College Prep High School, Pendleton had traveled to Washington to perform with the school marching band at inaugural events.

Cousin Shatira Wilks said the upcoming trip was the talk of a family gathering around New Year’s, but the young majorette was even more excited about something else: plans to spend the summer studying in Paris.


“She was an honor student all her life,” Wilks said. “Honestly, she was a walking angel. She never once gave her mom any problems ever.”

Wilks said the teen doted on her 10-year-old brother, Junior, who is devastated.

“At Christmas this year, she was designated the elf and she handed out all the gifts,” she recalled.

“She loved rock music. She was always listening and playing to music,” Wilks said,. “What you would usually catching her doing is texting on her phone, like all the teenagers.”

Pendleton last tweeted just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday. “I’m tired,” she wrote.

Many of her classmates changed their Twitter handles to honor her and decried the violence that had claimed an innocent life.

“You are more than loved and missed,” one wrote. “Your laugh smile and silly happy personality has made my day more times than I can remember. Nobody deserves this, especially not you.”

Friends of the young majorette described her as a bubbly, well-liked student.

“She was always smiling and laughing,” said Tyler Genovesi, 14. “She was just a really nice person. … There’s a lot of people crying in school today. It’s very sad. The band is playing for her right now.”

The shooting happened in an upscale neighborhood where residents were shocked.

"I was torn apart," said Robin Hollis, who lives across the street from the park. "I cried when I heard about it."

Pendleton's murder was one of three shooting deaths in the city on Tuesday. More than 40 people have been shot dead in Chicago since the beginning of the year. There were 506 homicides in the city last year, a 16 percent increase even as other large cities, like New York, saw murders drops.

[bluebeltATT]

So this is how gun control works?

Remove guns from law abiding citizens to make it easier for criminals to kill??

Logic, how does it work?

[Lendogg]

but but but chicago already has gun control... its obvs working

[Kulvich]

But Chicago has the strictest gun control in the U.S.


Edit: The above was sarcasm. Chicago is a joke. I'm glad I live in the rural South where all of my law-abiding neighbors are armed and willing to defend themselves against trash that infringes upon the life and liberty of others.

brb. Going to clean my AR-15

[Jorge0886]

Guns are illegal in Chicago... I'm calling fake

[chasintail]

Came in expecting Chicago.

[Tweedurr]

but but but chicago already has gun control... its obvs working

[InfiniteRage]

But Chicago has the strictest gun control in the U.S.

And highest homicide rates to go with it.































Thanks obama....

[AngryBaby]

good points, but you know this is going to get used as a ploy for national control

[Dizzie38]

Americans cannot be this dumb. You guys screwed yourselves with this second amendment crap. Compare your gun related deaths to other countries and you will see how stupid you gun advocates are.

[J3T]

good points, but you know this is going to get used as a ploy for national control

oh gotcha. because she performed at his inaguration she is more important than all the others that have been killed by criminals.

[Porteroso]

Idiots will be idiots. Honestly I'm not sure that everyone even open carrying would fix the problem. The gun culture in Chicago is just so backwards, and maybe even the street culture in general. They need to make guns legal again, then bring in the national guard for 2 years. Gun homicides punished by firing squad. And we need to spend more on education. So many of these kids, the only chance they would have, to make something of themselves and be better than their surroundings, is at school. But we keep cutting education year after year after year after year. Sad never-ending cycle.

[AngryBaby]

Guns are illegal in Chicago... I'm calling fake

link at the top

[chasintail]

good points, but you know this is going to get used as a ploy for national control

You think this girl is any different than any of the other hundreds killed in Chicago a year because she performed at Obama's inauguration? How could this possibly work when Chicago already has the strictest gun laws on the U.S.? It's painfully obvious that gun laws don't work this is actually an example of this.

[m0ridin]

Come on guys... a little respect. Have they even buried the girl yet?

Very sad. RIP

link at the top

You need to check your sarcasm detector

[Hercul3s]

'murica

Land of the Free (providing you are heavily armed - otherwise you'll get shot)

[tarheelblue0378]

But Chicago has the strictest gun control in the U.S.

That will be turned into "chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, so if it can happen there, we need more laws and need to get rid of more guns"

nb4 it was set up by the govt to make a nice little sob story on MSNBC

[TheDude8734]

So this is how gun control works?

Remove guns from law abiding citizens to make it easier for criminals to kill??

Logic, how does it work?

This.

but but but chicago already has gun control... its obvs working

And This.

[AngryBaby]

oh gotcha. because she performed at his inaguration she is more important than all the others that have been killed by criminals.

evidently since she's on the front page of NBC lol

[TotalGymFreak]

This was clearly the work of the NRA...
Provoke a expected reaction just so they can complain the government be takin our gunz

MURICA how does it work, it's like punching a bear on the nose then crying when it mauls you

[tarheelblue0378]

oh gotcha. because she performed at his inaguration she is more important than all the others that have been killed by criminals.

Actually in the national media she is, she'll become a martyr.

[Ravishing_Rick]

she was cute

[kan303]

wtf? jesus christ you go to a park with your friends and get shot in the back.












fuking can't go anywhere in this country without getting shot (movie theater, mall, school, college, park, grocery store)

[J3T]

evidently since she's on the front page of NBC lol

Actually in the national media she will be, she'll become a martyr.

So are many other gun related deaths, especially after the elementary school shooting. this will be no different than the rest.

[darkninja67]

Don't know what to say about this anymore.

[anonymous]

Wait. Some guy rand down a alley and shot a random person and then ran to a getaway car. All of this just happened randomly. Seems fukin legit as always

[AngryBaby]

You think this girl is any different than any of the other hundreds killed in Chicago a year because she performed at Obama's inauguration? How could this possibly work when Chicago already has the strictest gun laws on the U.S.? It's painfully obvious that gun laws don't work this is actually an example of this.

evidently she's already being treated diffently because she's getting news coverage. i got this from the front page of NBC. so don't act like it's me giving her special treatment haha i'm saying predict this being used as another "see! this is why we cant have guns" in the obama camp.

[RC2008]

The things I've heard about Chicago and its gun problem scare me.

[TheJaker]

Americans cannot be this dumb. You guys screwed yourselves with this second amendment crap. Compare your gun related deaths to other countries and you will see how stupid you gun advocates are.

The words of someone who doesn't understand the gun situation in America at all.

[RockyCapone]

I also call lie because of oh so great and strict gun laws in Chicago. maybe it was AR-15 cuz those damn guns kill everybody.