Now that Obama is not president, are we allowed to write Chicago without it being considered raaaaacist? Anyhow
Parkland students kick off bus tour in Chicago suburb
Student survivors of February’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday kicked off their March for Our Lives: Road to Change national tour in Chicago.
Hundreds gathered for the rally at St. Sabina’s Catholic Church on Chicago’s South Side, the Chicago Tribune reported. Among them were featured guests including Chance the Rapper, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz), Jennifer Hudson, and Will.i.am.
The event, dubbed the South Side Peace March, kicked off a 50-plus-stop tour for students who aim to rally young potential voters to register ahead of November’s midterm elections. Student survivors and gun control activists spoke at the rally, touting the importance of taking action.
“Four million people in this country turn 18 this year,†said Jammal Lemy, according to the Tribune. Lemy graduated from Parkland, Florida’s, Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 2016 and lost two close friends in the shooting. “We have the opportunity to empower the youth and to push a voter registration drive.â€
Oh, so this is all really about pushing Democrat voter registration. Huh. I wonder how the anti-gun, er, common sense gun control rally worked out?
1 dead, 13 wounded in shootings across Chicago
A 17-year-old boy was found with a gunshot wound that proved fatal, and 13 other people were wounded Saturday and early Sunday in shootings across Chicago, police said.
The most recent shooting took place downtown, about 1:40 a.m. in the 600 block of Lakeshore Drive. A 25-year-old man was walking with a group when an argument erupted and another man shot him in the back, police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
The gun grabbers march, er, March For Our Lives, was held in one of much lower crime areas of Chicago. They should have tried in one of the more dangerous ones where gun play is the norm in one of the most 2nd Amendment restrictive cities in the nation.
“Over the summer we’re going to key congressional districts…we’re basically trying to promote the largest youth voter turnout ever in the history of the United States,” Hogg told ABC News’s “Nightline” earlier this month.
Student activists boarded the tour bus at the end of Friday’s rally. The tour is staying in Chicago where they will hold a cookout and voter registration drive on Sunday.
Weird. I thought this was all about gun control? No?
Their objective is political, i.e., to elect more Democrats for enacting common sense gun control measures.
All protests and demonstrations are political.
You do realize electing Democrats in Chiraq is like obeying the law of gravity?
So they want gun-grabbing Democrats elected to 125% of all public offices in Chicago, instead of only 119%?
Now they can see what a gun control environment looks like.
Maybe even see a couple of those deaths where the bullets are inserted manually because the firearms are outlawed.
Couldn’t have picked a better place…
–“Father” Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina’s (2007)