All too often the drug economies of the USA carry out retribution killings and it would be wrong not to raise that possibility.
By Alexandria Fisher
Saturday, Feb 9, 2013
Updated 5:04 PM CST
Hadiya Pendleton (click here) was remembered by many today as a smiling young girl full of laughter and love.
First Lady Michelle Obama and hundreds of supporters attended a funeral for the slain teen Saturday morning at the Greater Harvest Baptist Church.
The service began shortly after 11 a.m. to a packed room.
"Hadiya was too young to leave us but not too young to make a mark," Pendleton's pastor Courtney Maxwell said at the start of the service....
Pendleton was killed last Tuesday at Kenwood Park on the city's South Side days after she performed at some of President Barack Obama's recent inauguration festivities. She was shot to death blocks from her school and about a mile from the president's and first lady's Chicago home....
I believe this vicious killing was part of a violent culture in the USA enhanced by the lack of gun control laws. I don't want to hear how Chicago has strict gun laws, that does not keep them from finding a market in the city from outside the city. There are not road blocks into Chicago, nor sniffing dogs to find them on rail cars.
The United States needs to assess the illegal drug market to find controls and it needs comprehensive gun laws that provide continuity in control. No interstate recognition of concealed carry and no interstate commerce of guns or ammunition. There needs to be control at the state and local level to end this.
One of the overwhelming problems facing prosecutors who seek to end the violent culture in the USA, are the retribution killings of organized crime. The drug culture in the USA is organized crime that extends far beyond our cities. I think this killing was more an assassination of a high school activist who was recognized for her contribution to society and her brilliant future. The location and the person seems less chaotic than the possibility of organized crime to make an impact on freedom and justice.
The United States needs to assess the illegal drug market to find controls and it needs comprehensive gun laws that provide continuity in control. No interstate recognition of concealed carry and no interstate commerce of guns or ammunition. There needs to be control at the state and local level to end this.
One of the overwhelming problems facing prosecutors who seek to end the violent culture in the USA, are the retribution killings of organized crime. The drug culture in the USA is organized crime that extends far beyond our cities. I think this killing was more an assassination of a high school activist who was recognized for her contribution to society and her brilliant future. The location and the person seems less chaotic than the possibility of organized crime to make an impact on freedom and justice.
