13 shot in park last night, including 3 year-old.

[Robb]

Semehca Nunn tried hard to talk about her 3-year-old grandson, one of 13 people shot as neighbors played basketball in Cornell Square Park in the Back of the Yards Thursday night.

"They need to stop, they need to stop," Nunn said, the last word coming out as almost a shriek as she closed her eyes and collapsed crying.

A pick-up game was being played on the park's basketball court in the 1800 block of West 51st Street around 10:15 p.m. when at least one gunman walked up and started firing, apparently with a high-powered gun.

Thirteen people who were on the court or were watching the game were hit, many of them in the arms or legs.

The boy, Deonta Howard, was standing on the court and was shot near the ear, the bullet exiting through his cheek, according to police and relatives. His family said the boy is expected to recover but will need plastic surgery.

Read More: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-multiple-people-including-3yearold-shot-in-south-side-attack-20130919,0,352520.story

Thankfully no one reported dead just yet. Which means the number of gun deaths hasn't increased, so really we don't need to worry about doing anything.

The guns involved last night haven't killed anyone! Remember, woundings don't count!

[ileus]

1. guns wound people...

[MineralMan]

2. If this had taken place in the Navy Yard, it would probably

be bigger news, I bet. But, it was a Chicago playground, so nobody seems to care. Odd, huh?

[Puzzledtraveller]

6. All is well, there are no problems here, move along.

They do not want us to see this. I wonder why.

[MineralMan]

7. Yeah...wonder why, indeed.

Odd, isn't it?

Chicago playground -- Navy Yard

What could be the difference, I wonder?

[gopiscrap]

3. Our country is sick!

[ecstatic]

5. +1000 nt

[Marrah_G]

4. We will never get the guns off the streets until they are regulated

Licensed, tracked, registered.... no more private sales and gun show loopholes.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. That word, "regulated", is the one that is ignored by most of the people who oppose any

kind of gun control at all, even though it is part of that same 2nd Amendment that they are so fond of quoting.

[Marrah_G]

9. yup....

And they don't care until their loved ones are in harms way.

I am thinking of making a FB to my friends and family who keep posting NRA talking points. I would ask them if they were still against regulation and background checks if we were burying my son this morning... instead of 12 other families burying their loved ones.

[seveneyes]

10. There are no easy answers

I'm seriously try to envision how such regulation would work differently for weapons that how it does for other regulated items like heroin, meth and many other failing regulations.

[Marrah_G]

12. So because something isn't easy we do nothing???????????

It IS easy.

Stop private sales without background checks. Require licenses for a purchase.

We do it for cars? Not so difficult.

No crazy person should be able to decide he needs to kill people and walk into a store in a state that he doesn't live in, without any sort of license and walk out with a weapon he can then go blow 12 people away with.

SO many things went wrong in this case. So many times there were warnings that this guy was not right. And STILL, no way to stop him because the State of VA doesn't see the ne3ed for regulations.

[seveneyes]

13. I'm not saying do nothing

I'm just looking for realistic visions of how it will work when implemented.

[Marrah_G]

14. Right now nothing is being done

Time and again these mentally ill people are allowed to buy weapons and ammo and innocent people die. You have to have a license to drive a car, the car needs to be registered. Yes, people drive without a license and drive unregistered cars, but the difference is that they can be arrested.

This issue hit home for me hard this week. My son will be working at the Shipyard on Monday, for the same company this guy worked for, had the guy lasted another week with his hallucinations, my son would have been working with him, staying in the same hotel. People knew he was unstable. BEFORE he bought the gun. People knew he was paranoid. BEFORE he bought the gun. Yet he was able to walk into a gun store in a state he was visiting and purchase a weapon he then used to kill 12 people.

VTECH shooter, was known to be having mental problems. Aroura shooter, known to have problems. Newtown shooter, known to have mental problems.

This person had a history with two states for gun related issues. BEFORE he bought this gun.

I work for an insurance company.... when they process an application they easily find out of there is a menta health history and investigate more. Yet for some reason we can't do the same for people buying weapons.

When is enough, enough?

Will we stop when it gets bad enough that everyone has the problem become personal?

[Robb]

15. That's because you're looking to failing regulations, not successful ones.

Dynamite comes to mind. Workplace safety. Emissions testing.

[HappyMe]

11. Exactly.