In Chicago, Parents Could Be Cited if Their Kids are Caught With Guns

By Jenn Jacques

For kids growing up in Chicago, CO2 pistols and 9MM handguns are more common than squirt guns.

How do you begin to fix such a broken city?

CBS Chicago reports:

Every day on the same corner, Tamar Manasseh gives neighborhood kids the chance just to be kids, through her group MASK, or Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killing.

“If they learn to play together as children, they won’t shoot each other as adults,” she says.

I’m not even going to begin to unpack that box of stupid, but as simplistically idiotic as that sounds, one Chicago Alderman has an even better idea: citing parents for allowing their children to have guns.

Ward 15 Ald. Raymond Lopez has introduced an ordinance that calls on parents to play a role in addressing gun violence and holding them accountable with a citation if they know their kid has a gun and doesn’t report it.

“Hopefully this ordinance will start the conversation about having people start paying attention to what’s going on in their children’s bedrooms, who they are hanging out with and what they are doing when they’re out in the street,” Lopez told a local reporter.

While Chicago is arguably the epitome of gun control lunacy, would …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms