Longtime civil-rights advocate Jesse Jackson is urging President
Obama to return to his adopted home city of Chicago to address rampant
gun violence.
Jackson’s proposals include ordering street patrols by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The reaction from Jackson came after a 15-year-old honors student who had performed with her high school band at Obama’s inauguration in Washington Jan. 21 was shot and killed just one mile from Obama’s South Side home.
At that point, Jan. 29, there had been 42 homicides and 157 shootings this year in a city with arguably the toughest gun restrictions in the nation. There were 506 murders in the city in 2012, up 17 percent from the previous year.
Jackson’s proposals include ordering street patrols by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The reaction from Jackson came after a 15-year-old honors student who had performed with her high school band at Obama’s inauguration in Washington Jan. 21 was shot and killed just one mile from Obama’s South Side home.
At that point, Jan. 29, there had been 42 homicides and 157 shootings this year in a city with arguably the toughest gun restrictions in the nation. There were 506 murders in the city in 2012, up 17 percent from the previous year.
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