Sad irony. Why don´t gangs and thugs obey gun laws? Good thing these shootings don´t count in the Democrats´ eyes.

Sarcasm aside, this is a very sad story. May God be with her family.

Chicago folks who love their children should pack up and escape to America. Why stay in a progressive war zone where things will only get worse ? When you get settled somewhere in America remember what you left behind and why you moved. Start voting for conservatives.

Just think how bad it would be if guns were not banned in Chicago. s/

It´s not a question of guns banned or guns not banned. Look at NYC. I assume its gun laws are similar to Chicago. In 2012 NYC had 414 murders (there were over 2,000 per year in the early 1990´s)while Chicago, with 1/3 the population had 500.

Perhaps it is because NYC has stop and frisk, or tougher sentencing for being caught with an illegal handgun, or just better policing. But whatever NYC is doing should be copied by all large cities with high murder rates.

Obama´s house is in Kenwood. This could have been one of his daughters.

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This brutality and barbarism appears to be part of black culture in America. Until blacks themselves acknowledge this behavior and do something about it, who wants them moving into other communities? They bring this with them wherever they move to.

What a waste of a human life. This young woman was an honor student and she was probably on the way to becoming a contributing member of society. What a waste .

it is most unfortunate that she was hanging with gangbangers. Remember that Rahm told the gangbangers to shoot each other in the alleys, and not on the streets. That, apparently, is his solution to violence.

Hey Obama, Biden, Feinstein, Schumer, et al,...How´s that "Gun Control" thing working out for ya?

At least she got to perform at Obama´s Inaugural. That´s an accomplishment that most of us will never get to boast about and will look nice engraved on her headstone.

What this country needs is murder control.

Until POTUS commits to outlawing murder our children will not be safe.

#4, What part of Chicago has the toughest gun control laws in the United States do you not understand? I live in NY and up until our hamster brained Governor changed the law without going through the State legislative process (Much like his hero Zippy) NY had the third toughest gun control laws, just behind Washington DC and of course Chicago. If you look at your own numbers, NY and Chicago are proportionately almost equal in murders. So NY is doing slightly better with slightly less gun control. I also notice that you mention "murders" and make no distiction regarding if guns were involved.

OK, this may be very un-PC, but I hope they keep on shooting and Chicago is wiped off the map. Dear Leader and his administration refuse to address the carnage that occurs in this city on a daily basis, so let them have at it.

Very pretty girl. Sounds like she and the boy who was wounded were targeted-perhaps by a jealous sob.

Chicago´s a big place and the South Side is often written off as no man´s land even by locals but this is just 3.5 miles from Soldier Field and a couple hundred yards from a lakefront recreation trail.

When will the racist Obama administration stop focusing on white Yankee schoolchildren and mention black Midwest kids?

The article says that although she and her friend were not known to be gang members, some of those who were with them where they took shelter were gang members.

question: with so many murders in Illinois why hasn´t the president received letters from the children/parents regarding this horrid pattern? The children from the school shooting wrote the "O".

Could it be that the Chicago kids don´t know how to write?

If guns kill, how in the world does anyone make it out of a gun show/sale?

Black on black violence.
Blacks killing blacks, and whites, and Mexicans, and Asians, and Europeans, ...
America has a very serious Afro-American problem.

I think we should help with the blacks killing blacks. We could clean up the neighborhoods faster.

Did the culprits who gunned down this girl have their gun permits? Was the gun(s) registered? Did the shooter(s) pay for and attend their NRA safety course required to get their gun permits? Is all this information recorded in the ATF database? Will urkel, Sharpton, Jackson and tutu rham attend her funeral along with the barrage of TV cameras from the lamestream media to show us all on the evening news? What´s that? No?

They voted for Obama, they voted for Rahm; how do you save a people from themselves?

It´s not just an American black culture problem. Look at Africa. The same thing goes on there in tribal wars, only they don´t generally use guns. They hack each other up with machetes. Remember the Tutsis and the Hutus?

Now that crime is spilling over to the ´good´ neighborhood the neighbors are noticing???

And since there were possibly gang members in the crowd then it would seem the shooting was justified????

The callousness in Chicago is horrifying.

Heartbreaking. Maybe they should consider arming the law-abiding school children. Better to go down fighting than to be slaughtered while trying to hide or to escape.

Heartbreaking.

We need to get the people who do crime with guns off the streets and adress the problems that create this environment.

Step one would be to try and strengthen 2-parent families.

Maybe they are getting a little callous because Chicago has turned into a shooting gallery now and the current mayor and the current WH doen´t seem to care a diddly about it.

You get what you vote for Chicago.

Down in Detroit, the latest thing is armed robberies of students waiting for the bus. They target middle school and high school students taking their Ipods, phones and money mostly. As in this story, it seems sad that often it is the decent students/teens who get caught in the crossfire between gangs.

Hadiya Pendleton, please rest in peace and may your parents & family find comfort somewhere.

poster #13 ... it is not a matter of being politically correct or not. Do not use that as clever cover.

This is simple humanity .... would that be (or any of the poor young sould being murdered ina political cesspool where everyone, especially the Andrea Mitchells and Chris Matthews of the world look the other way) a member of your family or a neighbor´s. Show some sympathy ....a young promising life was takien for no reason.

There are not political proxies who being killed, they are teenagers. And do not be decieved because ´they are not like you´, being African-americans in cesspool Chicago ... this could easily happen to any one of us .... don´t deceive yourself (and others insensitively commenting on here) with the d hypocritical delusion that your ´lifestyle´ protects you from the carnage ....

As John Donne wrote ... ´never ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee´. Hadiya Pendleton was an innocent who did not deserve this fate ... not because the news media & corrupt political class treat them simply as vote blocs for power.

Just a Thought; Do you think the Crimes in Chicago would take on a different light if the Gangbangers would drive by and spray City Hall, or the Police Station on a more regular basis? Certainly would seem to be one way to capture public indignation to the problem.

The pictures of Rhambo bobbing and weaving while practicing Battlefield escape and Evasion Tactics, would be really worth a You Tube Video.

my blood is slowly boiling .....

any urban area in Amerika has gangbangers. If you are not aware of it then you are simply deceiving yourself - and half the cops are as corrupt as the politicians and businesses.

Do not kid yourself ... why? because the upper class ala suburbs, Manhattan & Hollywood need their drug supply and the downtrodden are the mules. That has been one of the few delusional escape hatches for a young African-american male to make do ...earn money ...either that, sports or the military.

Yeah, there is no emphasis on education ...becaue the LBJ policies have destroyed what was once a proud family heritage among black families. By design or stupidity - it has become a handy voting bloc to always call upon has it not?

This is a long-term issue which Team 44 certainly is not addressing. The irony is that in recent decades African-Americans have done substantially much better under Republcians with the tide raising all boats than Democrats. But never expect the corrupt news media to tell ´reality´.

Here is a simple test. Compare the crime rates in cities with strict gun laws against cities where concealed carry is allowed.

Now that is something gun grabbers want to do!

Was the gun owned by a legal gun owner? Oh, I forgot ths is a "gun free" city.Itmust be safer than any other city?

#17 Why is that? And at a gun show so many of those guns. Enough to hold and entire town hostage. Good point and great response.

Bring back orphanages and take kids away from the single mothers(after a grace period of one), and raise them like in the old days...boys town, etc.

Obviously the Obie Curse!

#13- All you have to do is look at how well some police live on their salaries and you know why crime is unchecked in gangbanger territory.