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Chloe

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Guns in Chicago


Hi Humans,
Have you heard the news from Chicago? I am especially interested because although I was born in California, my human family is from Chicago and we spend part of each year there. Last year a Black human was shot and killed by a White policeman. It would appear that the policeman in this particular case used at least poor judgment which resulted in a death that should not have happened. Also the local government was accused of a cover up in protecting the policeman. As a result, the police chief resigned, and the Black Lives Matter people are demanding that the mayor also resign. I agree that Black lives really do matter just as much as any lives. The question is how to best serve the goal of protecting lives. The Black Lives matter people have every right to protest in a free country. But would removing Mayor Rahm Emanuel really serve the goal of protecting innocent lives? What are the factors that need to be addressed? I agree that racial prejudice really does exist (all over the USA, in fact all over the world), and there are probably some racist policemen as there are racists among humans in other occupations as well. Certainly racist policemen need to correct there attitude or find another occupation. But there is more to it than that. The police protect the citizens from crime, and they put their lives on the line every day when they go to work in a country where guns of all kinds are much too available to the public. The decisions of when to shoot are often split second, and the decision can result in the police killing a citizen wrongly or being themselves killed because of hesitation. The most important factor is to get guns off the street to reduce the number of times the police are faced with that decision. To do that strict gun control is needed, but instead the Republican Congress has chosen to support the NRA against the people and the police by creating a gun anarchy. Mayor Emanuel has been a staunch supporter of strict gun control in Chicago and in that way has done more than anyone to protect the lives of the citizens of all races but gun control is needed throughout the USA. Otherwise the criminals and sociopaths can go outside the city and come back with whatever guns they want.
Chloe

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