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Anti-violence Gun Control

From SCC

• The Cook County Board has approved appointing a gun violence coordinator who will be expected to “live, eat, breathe and sleep gun violence,” reports WBBM [...].
  
  Commissioner Richard Boykin, who is behind the idea, said the yet-to-be named gun violence coordinator will certainly have his or her work cut out for them with roughly 2,500 shootings in the city this year so far.
  
  “This will be the first gun violence coordinator, to my knowledge, in the United States of America,” Boykin said.
  
  “The Cook County Board heard the people who said this is intolerable, we’ve got to change it,” said Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee.
  
  Boykin said he hopes the person is in place before the end of the year.

Well, let us be among the first to say that coordinating gun violence is loooooong overdue. All these people (and folks) running around with guns, firing willy-nilly, wounding thousands who can't even begin to pay their bills must end.

First up should be "Target Identification" and "Checking Your Backstop." Those two courses alone would cut down on the "Unintended Victim" phenomenon almost overnight. Next, "Controlling Your Weapon." And finally, "Getting Away With It," which unfortunately, seems to be the course that all of the shooters in recent memory have no problem passing.

You know what might be some good alternatives instead of expanding government? How about some of these courses?

• "The Present Father"
• "Complete Families"
• "I an NOT a Ho - A Lesson in Self Respect"
• "The Pitfalls of Materialism"
• "Passing 3rd Grade (and 4th, and 5th, etc)"
• "Respect for Others"
• "How to Earn a Living - Step One: Laborer"
• "How to Earn a Living - Step Two: Assembly Lines"
• "Conflict Resolution Without Guns"

So the only question now is who gets this new highly paid government spot that will waste more and more tax money - Ernie Brown or Jody Weis? Charlie Williams is the outside shot.You think we're joking?

Labels: county, dumb ideas