Iam sorry to the family. This is Chicago that just has trouble in it. The rise in gun news violence is all cuz of the "big" talk on the news. it has the people that would think and think this over and over time about "do i want to kill someone?" but now they are thinking their chance is short lived and they have to do it now or guns will be gone. Look and think outside the box not just at the barrel.

After learning of her life and how she was trying to make a difference with the BS that's going around, it breaks my heart that her life was ended before she could even be heard.

Seriously, my eyes are welled up trying to write this.

Ooooh man. I just so hope that many, many people read, understand and try to realize what's going on and try to make a difference.

It's real easy to start. Just simply hold a door open for someone......anywhere.

Pick up that little piece of paper /plastic cup etc... while walking through the parking lot and simply drop it in the trash can that's almost always nearby.

If everybody tried and gave it a day, they'd realize how accomplished they would feel at the end of each day, after everything else they had to deal with.

I dunno man. I just wish sometimes.......................

It doesn't hurt to try.

Who do you think, Obama. Oh, ya, and his puppet Ralm Emanual.

@ tobefreeagain,

Why do trolls like you always have to bring Obama up at a every opportunity whether it relates to him or not? Wtf is wrong with you people? This has nothing to do with politics. Someone was shot dead. Instead of droning on like a moron, how about you show the slightest bit of compassion or sympathy? Or at the very least, the slightest bit of sensitivity to the situation.

A person, who was clearly a way better person than you, wanted to make a difference in our screwed up world but ended up dead. It's a tragedy. And yet all you brainwashed puppets are still ranting about Obama and politics. Enough already. I'm not even happy with Obama and I'm tired of hearing this BS every page I go. You don't like him. We get it. We got it awhile ago. Now quit whining and deal with it like the rest of us.

Same reasons trolls like you bring George Bush into any conversation of what you think is wrong with the country I suppose GodOfate.

@ Jon Jones,

Again with the partisan politics? I never even mentioned Bush here before you brought it up. In fact, I dare you to name one time I actually brought Bush into a conversation. I'm waiting...

Well, you must be a democrat, look how much time you have to waste. Holding your breath until you get your way too?

No. I'm an Independent. You know, I actually think for myself instead of letting blind party bias decide things for me. Note that I don't automatically assume everyone who doesn't hold the same view as me must be a certain political party. But please, enough of your political propaganda. This article has nothing to do with politics, so stop bringing it up.

@ "tobefreeagain" what is with you nuts and Obama? This story has NOTHING to do with Obama. I am no real fan of Obama, but, God I am sick of trolls like you.

I get SO sick of these right wing nut jobs who bring politics into every conversation without EVER considering offering condolences to the family of the victim. I USED to be a republican, but, can't stomach being in line with nutcases like jonjones and tobefree or whatever. Now, I am a very happy independent.

I feel for the family. They must feel like pawns of the politicians and the liberal media. Chicago, the land where guns are outlawed and drugs are outlawed. I thought that meant there weren't supposed to be any guns or drugs then.

It really is too bad that the the liberal media has no brains and can't make decisions for themselves. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the WH gave the media it's marching orders to cover on an unprecedented scale, every small time shooting. Of course, they have totally dishonest in their reporting as the overwhelming majority of the crimes are committed by people who did not legally have guns. But, as usual, facts must not get in the way of taking people's rights away from them, as far as the left is concerned.

Seriously, who'd going to turn in their guns as a result of gun bans? Only law abiding citizens! As they say, if you have 2 banks in town, one says "gun free" and the other says "assault weapons here", which bank would you decide to rob if you were a robber? According to libs, they'd choose the assault weapons here bank. Do you really want these nuts making decisions for you?

And, no, there aren't any more violent crimes going on than before, it's just that the libs want to fool you into to thinking so, so that you'll sheepishly give up your right to defend yourself.

It is run by the thugs.

"If not for the lefts infatuation with Obama, nothing would come of this as has not come with hundreds of other teenage deaths, that is what is wrong with this country."

You know, that's really funny. Why is it, then, that the Right is always the one that brings him up? I'm not a Democrat, nor am I a Republican. But I always notice it is the right wingers who tends to bring him up, and not the left. And they just can't seem to stop talking about him. I mean it is like they have such this obsession over Obama that they just have to bring him up even where the topic is irrelevant to him. They say they hate him, but then why can't they stop talking about him?

Is the right actually obsessed with Obama?

@ myname123,

Do you live in a cave? I ask because you see these Obama comments everywhere from sports articles to videos with pets in them. You can't honestly have ever had an internet connection and tell me that you don't see people bringing up Obama no matter what the topic of the article is. You would have to be pretty ignorant to not see just a few of the endless comments about him all over the web. I get that he's our President, but even the President doesn't have anything to do with a a video about someone's pet dog for example. Yet sure enough, someone will inevitably start ranting about Obama there, too. Why? It's because they just can't let Obama go! It's an obsession.

And as for the broadcasting of this girl's murder over another, they have been covering murder stories for years. Often it is kept local. But since she was just on the national stage a week ago, it's only natural it becomes national news. And it isn't as if this is the only story in the media about a murder. Every day it seems more shootings come out. The part about her attending Obama's inauguration in this story wasn't about Obama just because his name was in it. It was about what the victim, the girl, had done just a week ago. You people are trying to make this about politics when it is about the girl, what she had done recently, and the tragic murder that happened to her. The politics are irrelevant to that.

@ myname123,

Missing the point? I think you missed half of my last post:

"Do you live in a cave? I ask because you see these Obama comments everywhere from sports articles to videos with pets in them. You can't honestly have ever had an internet connection and tell me that you don't see people bringing up Obama no matter what the topic of the article is. You would have to be pretty ignorant to not see just a few of the endless comments about him all over the web. I get that he's our President, but even the President doesn't have anything to do with a a video about someone's pet dog for example. Yet sure enough, someone will inevitably start ranting about Obama there, too. Why? It's because they just can't let Obama go! It's an obsession."

It isn't just this article. It's all over the web! Again, why is it like this if they aren't obsessed with him? Why can't they let him go for 1 second?

Yes, NBC is liberally biased. No, this article is not about politics. You fail to see the reason why they mentioned that isn't because this is about Obama's inauguration. Far from it. It's because she performed at it a week ago. That's it. Murder stories often have what the victim had recently done or said they planned for the future in it. This is no different. It isn't political. The only thing Obama or his inauguration have to do with the article is that this girl was there a week ago. That's it. The rest is connecting dots where they aren't. Plenty of other people attended the inauguration. They weren't murdered. This is a story about a tragic murder, not Obama's inauguration. There have been a lot of those tragic murders lately.

Btw, this article isn't about race either. Don't turn it into that.

@ myname123,

You ignored it again, so I'll say it again:

"It isn't just this article. It's all over the web! Again, why is it like this if they aren't obsessed with him? Why can't they let him go for 1 second?"

Now as far as this article goes:

I don't think you understand the difference between a story about a tragedy and a story about politics. Had she performed at a big venue, like the Superbowl that is coming up (I know it hasn't happened yet it's just an example) soon, the first paragraph would be different. Let's say that the girl performed in the Superbowl instead of Obama's Inauguration, and then was murdered a week later. NBC would still write the article. But the first paragraph would say something like, "girl who sang at Superbowl..." It would have nothing to do with football or the Superbowl. It would be about the tragic murder that happened to the girl.

The same thing goes here. People like you can't seem to separate politics from the rest of life. I don't know for the life of me why that is.

"And no it isnt about race, but it should be, it should be about how inner-city blacks are responsible for the vast majority of violence in the country. That isnt racist, that is fact, you wont see NBC pointing that fact out though. Will you?

Are you really too blind to notice agendas? That type of ignorance baffles me."

Well, I can certainly see your agenda coming out. And I see you are still obsessing over race. How sad. Was the killer in that school in Connecticut black? How about that psycho at the premier of the "Dark Knight Rises?" Was he black? No! Criminals come in all shapes and sizes. It is idiotic to suggest that one group of people are responsible for crimes because of the color of their skin! There is no reason to even talk about race. Yet here you are continuing to bring it up! Why?

Four days straight on the front page with picture..."she loved life"...so did the girl that got t-boned in the intersection by a drunk driver...where is her unrelenting national coverage? What about the girl that got sucked away by a tornado in January...no proposed laws for limiting climate change? Most of this violence we have seen is gang related...what, no call for a war on gangs? Just keep ignoring the cause, and look to what seems easy...that's all our eroded society can muster these days. We ruined the schools by removing discipline and accountability...fragment our communities by shipping children to different schools every year, so that they never establish a sense of community and belonging. We have absentee and absent parents that don't make time or have time for our children, and to fill in the gaps, we pump them full of the latest designer medications. We have the audacity to ask how it all fell apart, and look for an easy answer that won't inconvenience us...Welcome to the new America. Enjoy it while it lasts...we can't continue in this direction much longer.

If they are all attached to a gang unit and are willing to bust some heads it might. If they are just for show, not much.

The main problem in Chicago is the easy access to guns directly outside of the city. Most of this crime takes place on the south side. I feel for people frustrated that they can't have guns for protection under the present restrictions, but it is the lack of cohesive national laws that caused the situation. Now we have a backlash. Part of that is the NRA and gun-lobby working hard against things like background checks, research into gun violence and any kind of legislation. This is what comes from the combination of uncaring gun-enthusiasts and the tea party "less government" mentality, which has kept intelligent, reasonable regulation from being enacted.

Don't count on it. They know this will simply blow over in a few days and then they will move on to something the enjoy. Raising our taxes to spend on themselves.

There are two gangs, the Chicago machine and the drug gang bangers. As long as the latter doesn't shoot up the neighborhoods of the former, not much goes on. Growing up near there I wouldn't doubt for one minute politicians are on the take from the drug profits.

David,

thanks for respecting the family.

David - 1682248 I feel sorry for people like you because you are so full of hate for our President that you can not see the forest for the trees. Bottom line you are a racist and can't stand the idea of a person of color leading this great country of ours. Get over it because while he is the first he will not be the last and no matter what mean spirited people like you may have to say about them there is little if anything that you will be able to do because between the lot of you, you don't have the imagination that God gave a mountain goat. You are too full of hate to be able to come up with anything that would even approximate a solution because your thinking is so clouded by the hate you hold inside. I just hope that in time the government will set up some island where they can send all the people that think like you so you guys can kill each other and eat each other's young. You are an embarrassment to the rest of us because your world view is so twisted. Get a life and understand that what you are saying is on he fringe of anything that has to do with rational thinking.

I can't stand Barry because he is the worst president we've ever had. He has no business leading a country when he has never led anything in his life before blind sheeple voted him into office and he's not leading now. You libs always call those of us who can't stand Obama racists. That is such BS. I didn't care much for W either but at least he got things done. And by the way, regarding the race argument, let's not forget that Barry is HALF WHITE. You libs make it a race issue when it isn't one. We just want a president who actually leads and makes a difference. Not just one who is good at reading teleprompters. Play the race card just because your "great leader" is doing a horrid job.

David-1682248 - I'd call you a tool, but that would be an insult to tiny little screws all over the world.

Really?? Hope you never face this kind of loss and have someone like yourself dishing out this patronizing, all knowing BS. Clearly you have it all figured out.

Mark,

Totally unnecessary, totally...

The gun laws in Chicago are VERY VERY effective. Try to find one law abiding citizen their who has one and you can't. That's why they are dying in Chicago, they can't defend themselves against the criminals who ignore the laws.

No, they simply can go to other states and bring guns back to Chicago. No matter how strict the laws are in one area, it doesn't matter if they can go anywhere else in the country and bring them back. Yes, we all know Chicago has its issues. But you can't just isolate one city from the rest of the country like that. You act as if the rest of the country has no effect on Chicago, and vice versa. It simply doesn't work like that. Chicago is not its own little bubble.

God ofFate most of the illegal guns on the street come from those legally buying them up and reselling them or those that leave them in obvious places to be stolen. Manufacturers of guns are not located in the middle of the inner city as I have said many times. Even the magazines and clips are bought by the truckload and than sold for very high profit. So until we can begin to nail those that put the guns out into the street to these a-holes that have no value on life this will continue. I think some people believe that guns are pooped out by these criminals or carved from soap and than when they go to bed and wake up the gun-fairy has changed them into a real life high capacity weapons. While they scream about their rights to bear arms they forget that no-where does it say that you have a right to arm the criminals which some legal slime is. Believe me they are not arming themselves. Wonder who is arming them I again ask? Let's go up the ladder and oops we may just find the generous soul who is providing them sitting bebind a desk on wall street.

Chicago has THE toughest gun control of any state in the union. The issue is human beings who have no respect for life, period.

Tomcoz, I totally agree with you. Guns don't kill people. Sickos that have guns kill people. But gun control nuts don't see it that way and never will. I will never forget Rosie O'Donnell, whom I can't stand, inviting Tom Selleck on her show and then berating him for being a member of the NRA. PATHETIC.

So, how to manage those with no conscience or morals? The "gun violence" is a result of the criminals, not the gun(s). Until your politicians take this as serious as their own personal agendas, nothing will be solved.

RIP, Hadiya -

They already have one governor in prison and the second just got released. Time to clean up the citY? Nah!

People who say that places with toughest gun laws have more crime are mixing up cause and effect. It is because of high crime rates that those places enacted the gun laws. Whether or not crime would have been lower had they not restricted guns is unknown.

Here in Texas, I would guess most of the population is armed and ready to defend themselves if need be. I know I wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger if someone broke into my home or tried to carjack me. I could go on and on about how a law abiding citizens owning and carrying a gun could save lives but the gun control freaks will NEVER GET IT.

The other reason is the media in its usual fashion continues its constant sensationalizing of the story ad nauseum

Jesus,Ditto Head..it's not about Obama..How about a little respect for the girl and her family.The story was about her life and her aspirations.Part of it was about her trip to DC..

NOW NOW Bill I am just stating a fact, but I guess your name calling shows me where you stand..

The story is about the girl but the story behind the story is about MSDNC shilling for Obama's anti gun agenda. There is practically a Sandy Hook every week in Chicago but that doesn't get covered.

Totally wrong,Grasshopper...

YA Bill, put me in jail but let the Gang-bangers continue their killin spree. Makes sense to me. Liberalism is a mental disease. LOL!

No I want to lock up the LEGAL person who is commiting an illegal act by selling underground hundreds of thousands of these weapons to those a-hole criminals. No matter how you may pretend these guns are coming from a manufacturer who sells them to someone who sells them to the straw purchasers who sells them for huge amounts of money to the criminals. The whole thing starts at the top not down in the streets. Enough people like some here love the fact that people are killing each other it keeps them able to scream for more guns to protect themselves. A vicious cycle that will never cease because there is to much money involved.

Sort of like drugs. How is that ban working out for you?

The person with the most to gain is Obama. You wouldn't be suggesting that would you? :<)

Pandy Guess you forgot to watch Al on his show tonight was the young ladies mother. ANd yes this is a big deal also but you see if they talk about it people will complain and if they don't they will complain. The hatred is deep and slimy in this world of hate Obama and anyone with a bit of liberlism in their souls. So many can turn their backs on the fact that a young lady with a lot to offer was killed senselessly. They have to turn this into an Obama finger pointing. I don't care about Bush or Obama in this instance I care about children dying. This teen who already cared about our world may have been the one to discover something that would have saved your life or the life of someone you love. Stop breathing Obama hatred into your soul and live in a world where you personally make a positive difference if you can.

Did I mention Obama? I guess all black folks names sound alike!!!! For the love of god, turn him loose and let Michelle stroke him for a while!!!!!! Btw, I didn't forget to watch Al. He is an idiot and I don't waste my time with folks like him who are racist and full of hate. Lastly, how do you know what kind of difference positive or otherwise I make, you self righteous so and so.....

Bless you Nancy for just being a real human being with a heart. May God have her in the palm of his hand showing her the glorious place she will now reside in all eternity. Nancy please stay as sweet as you sound you are a breath of fresh air.