Chicago Remains Focused More on Covid and Less on Crime When it Comes to Children

COVID can be very bad for certain people. However, for Chicago’s children, criminal’s bullets are worse. In recent months, criminals have shot children as young as one month old. But the cruel disregard for innocent children continues. And not from just the criminals, but city leaders like Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Joe Kinsey, at OutKick, notes some shameful statistics when you compare the Chicago government’s response to COVID vs. criminals shooting kids. Lamenting the lack of headlines at media outlets such as CNN, Kinsey writes, “the blood of children is being spilled at a rate that should create major headlines on CNN.” But it’s not.

According to “shooting data and CDC data,” there have been 214 child COVID deaths in the U.S. at the time of this writing. Just in Chicago, 280 children have been shot this year. While there have been 35 Chicago children killed by gunfire this year, there have been 15 child deaths from COVID “in the entire state of Illinois… since the pandemic began.”

In Chicago, over just the Labor Day weekend, criminal’s bullets found eight children, even killing a four-year-old boy. The children shot were simply enjoying life when savages took those little lives. One boy was having his hair braided when a criminal shot into an open window, killing him. Another suspect shot into a basement window, wounding a 13-year-old boy, shooting him in the head.

People are more than frustrated at the lack of adequate response from Mayor Lightfoot. While Chicagoans attend “another funeral for a child gunned down,” politicians do little, and the city’s children, especially in poor, minority neighborhoods, continue to suffer and die.

Politicians often divert the discussion to addressing “underlying issues.” However, statistics address that, too. ABC 7 Chicago reported, “30% of Chicago school students were identified in late August as at risk of not attending classes in 2020-21.” That is a tragic statistic that fuels the continuing violence. If city leaders ignore both underlying and obvious issues, can they say they’re serious about ending this preventable crisis?

A woman attending the services for precious four-year-old Mychal Moultry told the Chicago Tribune, “It hurts because it’s our community and [us] shouldn’t have to live to like this.” About the little boy, the woman added, “He don’t even know why he’s gone. Stop the killing!”

Investigators recovered, according to the Tribune, 27 .45 caliber handgun and 5.7 mm rifle shell casings at Moultry’s murder scene.

People across America have wondered for too many years what it will take to get the city’s politicians, such as Lightfoot, to act decisively to, as the unidentified woman above said, “stop the killing.” If the carnage of babies isn’t enough, it’s soul-crushing to imagine what would finally be enough.

 

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