Force is Chicago's Answer to Gun and Gang Violence
In very recent history the media has covered multiple gun massacres in the U.S.A. many such as the one in Newtown, Connecticut in this 26 people were killed, a lot of them being young children. There was another infamous shooting being the tragic event of the Columbine High School massacre. These unfortunate and evil events have opened the closed eyes of Americans to the issue of gun violence. Due to these events repetitive arguments and activists overdue for retirement continue to enter the discussion on how to successfully stop such barbaric displays of human aggression. There is other place in America that represents this more than the city of Chicago, Illinois: also known as the “murder …show more content…
More than a fourth of African American males are dropping out of Chicago public high schools. Public housing is being dismantled, leaving the city's poorest citizens with few options, all of them bad, As in cities around the nation, Chicago officials are staggering under a shaky economy and desperate for new revenues, are taxing everything in sight. Property taxes are already out of sight. (Green 199). With things like this going on the attitude in Chicago has shifted to do what you have to do to survive. The United States should use force to end the gun and gang violence in Chicago. Firstly’ the National Guard should be sent to Chicago because the National Guard has an extensive resume of stopping violence and restoring peace to places in an uproar. “President Eisenhower nationalized 10,000 members of Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 combat-ready paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to ensure that” black students could enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas that was segregated but was desegregated by the passing of bills by the U.S Senate (Rossell et. al 24). When congress ended segregation in the U.S educational systems The National Guard came and ensured that the African American …show more content…
Honore supports the calling in of the National Guard “to reduce the homicides and shootings plaguing Chicago streets” and in order to achieve this “more attention needs to be paid to poor communities infested with drugs... We need experienced people that can stop them” (Bowean). Chicago police officer Richard Wooten said, “This is going to require more than just the Chicago Police Department” (Bowean). While the Associated Press reports dwindling city funds for overtime payment to Chicago's officers (CBS News), calling on the National Guard is the reasonable course of action for policing Chicago's violent neighborhoods. Even Chicago lawmakers have pleaded for the National Guard to be called in (“Chicago
In very recent history the media has covered multiple gun massacres in the U.S.A. many such as the one in Newtown, Connecticut in this 26 people were killed, a lot of them being young children. There was another infamous shooting being the tragic event of the Columbine High School massacre. These unfortunate and evil events have opened the closed eyes of Americans to the issue of gun violence. Due to these events repetitive arguments and activists overdue for retirement continue to enter the discussion on how to successfully stop such barbaric displays of human aggression. There is other place in America that represents this more than the city of Chicago, Illinois: also known as the “murder …show more content…
More than a fourth of African American males are dropping out of Chicago public high schools. Public housing is being dismantled, leaving the city's poorest citizens with few options, all of them bad, As in cities around the nation, Chicago officials are staggering under a shaky economy and desperate for new revenues, are taxing everything in sight. Property taxes are already out of sight. (Green 199). With things like this going on the attitude in Chicago has shifted to do what you have to do to survive. The United States should use force to end the gun and gang violence in Chicago. Firstly’ the National Guard should be sent to Chicago because the National Guard has an extensive resume of stopping violence and restoring peace to places in an uproar. “President Eisenhower nationalized 10,000 members of Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 combat-ready paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to ensure that” black students could enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas that was segregated but was desegregated by the passing of bills by the U.S Senate (Rossell et. al 24). When congress ended segregation in the U.S educational systems The National Guard came and ensured that the African American …show more content…
Honore supports the calling in of the National Guard “to reduce the homicides and shootings plaguing Chicago streets” and in order to achieve this “more attention needs to be paid to poor communities infested with drugs... We need experienced people that can stop them” (Bowean). Chicago police officer Richard Wooten said, “This is going to require more than just the Chicago Police Department” (Bowean). While the Associated Press reports dwindling city funds for overtime payment to Chicago's officers (CBS News), calling on the National Guard is the reasonable course of action for policing Chicago's violent neighborhoods. Even Chicago lawmakers have pleaded for the National Guard to be called in (“Chicago