Kids Getting Killed

Late yesterday, around dusk, a 9 year-old boy was shot multiple times on the south side of Chicago. He lost his life. A 9 year old mind you. As I think about the children we serve in the city schools of Chicago and all the problems that they have to deal with, the proliferation of guns on the streets is but another stark reminder of too many mountains to climb. How is a 9 year-old to overcome this?

We lose too many young people to gun violence and everyone can certainly agree to that fact. And what we will, what will I, what will any of us decide - if anything - to do about it.

For our charity, we will continue to do our best to help the students in the classroom.

On another front, we have to add voices, reason and action to stem the flow of gun violence. Whatever the causes, wherever shooting deaths occur, and no matter our lot in life we have to be more proactive in seeing to it that a fourth or fifth grader doesn't meet their end to life at the end of a barrel.

No matter what our U.S. Constitution, along with the amendments, there IS a way to deal with the harm inflicted daily by guns. You see people created our charter, we are the ones who pass laws and regulations of all sorts, and the citizenry are those who can either stand by idly or come to our senses to make this a safer country, one worthy of young boys and girls living long past the age of nine.

Yes, as the saying goes, "We the People..." The people of this country can and must take action. I can think of fewer ways, at this moment, to think of creating "a more perfect union" than to address the issue of gun violence.

Thanks,
Dick