7-year-old in bumblebee costume shot while trick-or-treating

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

A 7-year-old girl trick-or-treating in a bumblebee outfit was critically injured Thursday night during a shooting on Chicago's West Side. A video that has since gone viral shows trick-or-treaters running as the shots rang out.

The gunfire began when a group of men started chasing a 31-year-old man and began firing, according to police News Affairs Sargent Rocco Alioto. That man, who was shot in the hand, was taken to a local hospital where he's in stable condition.

But two of the bullets hit the 7-year-old girl, who was out collecting candy with her family. Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford says the girl was shot in the lower neck area Thursday and was taken by paramedics to a local hospital. Alioto said she's in critical condition.

"This is unacceptable," Alioto said. "It's a 7-year-old girl that's trick-or-treating with her family out here, and happens to get shot." Police said the girl has no relationship at all to the 31-year-old man, CBS Chicago reports.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/child-shot-halloween-7-year-old-in-bumblebee-costume-shot-while-trick-or-treating-in-little-village-west-side-chicago/

[Aristus]

1. 'Law-abiding gun-owners' doing what they do...

I hope the girl will be all right. Goddamn this country sometimes...

[Polybius]

2. It was Chicago's West Side

I doubt they were legal guns, so they wouldn't be from "Law-abiding gun-owners." It's very hard to get legal guns there.

[Aristus]

3. I was just aping the age-old excuse gun owners always trot out when people start

discussing laws to prevent 7 year-old girls from getting shot.

[Hangingon]

8. I have never heard a law abiding gun owner claim this in this situation.

CHL training stresses that you have to be aware of innocents when you fire in self defense. Shooting this little girl is a crime - murder if she dies.

[Raymond O]

9. Discussing laws to prevent seven year olds from getting shot

should center around the depravity and criminality of where this horror actually happens. This age old excuse you speak of I have not heard of from right.

[groundloop]

10. How about we discuss easy access to murder weapons.

[Raymond O]

11. Prosecute, no shortage of laws on the subject. Yet depravity and criminality are

Ignored and excused.

[Skittles]

16. easy access to guns is routinely ignored too

[Raymond O]

17. Are you saying that non criminal access to firearms is too easy?

By and large criminal activity, as in inner city firearm violence stems from criminals Acquiring firearms unlawfully. The shitty end of the stick needs pointed where it belongs, not at law abiding common citizens.

[Skittles]

19. access is easy, PERIOD

and many LAW ABIDING CITIZENS are the victims of gun violence

DONE HERE, *NOT* worth my time

[Raymond O]

25. Sad, you feel that criminality and the sickness

of violence and moral decay is not a factor but liberty is a problem.

[Jake Stern]

27. It's far easier to blame the guns

Than to blame thug gangbangers.

[Devil Child]

32. +1 Jake Stern! n/t

[dewsgirl]

26. Yes. In this day and age, if you want a gun/guns enough

they are easily acquired. No background check needed.

[Raymond O]

30. That's a criminal offense, no need to bother innocent folks.

[pintobean]

4. 'Law-abiding gun-owners'

don't roam Chicago's West Side in packs, shooting at other humans.

[Guilded Lilly]

5. Yea, Aristus. This really got to me. My granddaughter is that age. I just...

don’t know how to wrap my head around the cold, jaded culture/mind set that embraces guns.

Especially since Sandy Hook, a part of my psyche has been forever immensely saddened for humanity.
Violence is ingrained in mankind, I know. There will always be a disrespect for life in many. History is rife with mans’ inhumanity towards man.

But this just really made me sad today.

[DENVERPOPS]

13. three shootings in Denver last night

We have officially gone back to the wild wild west.............

[DesertRat]

14. 5 teens were shot outside a Phoenix-area Halloween party last night

One is in critical condition. The suspect(s) are still on the loose.

[ripcord]

21. What was wrong exactly with increasing penalties on crimes involving firearms? NT

[Humanist_Activist]

23. Oddly enough, there was more gun control in the "Wild West" than today...

Guns were commonly outright banned within the borders of many towns, and sheriff's offices would confiscate such weapons and hold them for safe keeping until you left town.

[Drahthaardogs]

15. They were fucking gang bangers shooting at each other

Don't make shit up.

[Igel]

18. Put it that way and it sounds counterfactual.

We all know it's youngish conservative white disillusioned male incels behind it all.

Just because that's very much not the description of the people at the last 4-5 of the "mass shootings", from Chicago to Texas to California to New Jersey that I've seen posted about here in the last week in no way means that all the murderers aren't white conservative gun-humpers.

[IronLionZion]

6. If only the 7 year old had a gun to defend herself

but those damn liberals left her defenseless.

[nycbos]

12. As an adopted Chicagoan this is horrible.

Mayor Lightfoot was right when she talked about the "Two Chicagos" on the campaign trail.

[Lulu KC]

20. This whole story is terrible

but the bumblebee costume makes it hit a different nerve of tragedy. Please, bumblebee girl, survive.

[a la izquierda]

34. Seriously.

What in the actual fuck is wrong with people?

[RobinA]

22. Because

Giant bumblebees are a common and deadly threat well known in the community.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

24. Ive not been able to read this article - the heading alone makes me cry. Like- wtf have we become

[LittleBunny]

28. A 15-year old boy has been charged in the shooting.

Police say it was gang-related.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/02/boy-15-charged-chicago-halloween-shooting-seven-year-old-girl?CMP=twt_gu

[ripcord]

29. Who's surprised? NT

[maxsolomon]

33. It can be blamed on "Toxic Masculinity", however.

Black men are male, IIRC. Men get butthurt and solve their threatened masculinity issues with guns. Guns make every problem worse, and quickly.

I don't know why you'd bring up whatever "Toxic Whiteness" is. But welcome to DU, I hope your stay is educational.