From the Chicago Sun-Times comes yet one more tragic example of Chicago style change we can live without. Literally.
An accidental hand brush between two men on a South Side CTA bus Sunday night led to the shooting death of a 17-year-old Chicago high school student.
And why did this have to happen?
Wilcox said the argument between the two men started because one man accidentally touched the hand of the other as he was getting off the bus.
There was a short exchange of threats, and she thought one displayed a handgun on the bus, Wilcox said. The other man then got [off] the bus and took out his own gun, firing back through the back door where the cousins were sitting.
There should be no question that the type of people responsible for creating and enabling what Chicago has become have no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. Is Barack Obama responsible for this terrible event? Certainly not.
In fact, it could be argued that this is exactly the kind of thing he was working against. That having been said, the needless, gang-related violence and bloodshed in Chicago has gotten progressively worse, not better.
The formerly safe, clean and upstanding All-American blue collar neighborhoods of the Southwest Side that my parents and grandparents called home for years have morphed into filthy, crime ridden, bullet hole riddled hell holes during my lifetime. Sad to say, I would never dream of moving back to a city that was once a jewel of the Midwest. If his experience as a Chicago community organizer is Barack Obama’s primary qualification for the presidency, I’m honestly not that impressed.
