President Obama may have gotten our troops out of Iraq, but the gunfire in his hometown of Chicago [View all]

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http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-became-chiraq-094500160--politics.html



On Easter weekend, 45 people were shot in the city, six of them children.

Five youngsters under the age of 15—four girls and a boy—were shot in a playground where they had gone after Easter services at a nearby church.

Until we do something about guns, don’t expect things to change overnight,” McCarthy said at a press conference that same day.

McCarthy noted that Chicago cops have seized 1,500 illegal guns so far this year, but the people caught with the weapons are all too often back on the street all too soon.