Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Chicago Public School Students Greatest Fear is Getting Shot

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
The urban violence that has claimed the lives of 36 Chicago Public School children since September has left a wide swath of collateral damage in its wake, a Chicago Sun-Times survey of nearly 500 CPS students found.

Over and over, everyone from first-graders to eighth-graders summed up their "greatest fear'' in two words: "Getting shot.''
Gun control seems to not be working so well in Chicago.