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" Is this the New Normal? Two or three of these a week? Thank god nobody&amp;#039;s dead. As if that really matters.  Ten adults and the 3-year-old were transported by Fire Department ambulances after the attack in the 1800 block of West 51st Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Fire Department Deputy District Chief James Mungovan at the scene. A 12th victim was believed to have driven himself to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, a source said, citing preliminary information.   Police said later a total of 13 people were shot, the boy, two teens, and 10 adults, with the boy the most seriously wounded. The boy suffered a gunshot wound to the head at an ear that exited through his mouth, and was in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.  Now, this one&amp;#039;s going to be different from the Navy Yard shootings, and not just because nobody&amp;#039;s dead. This one is going to get blamed on the &amp;quot;culture&amp;quot; of the surrounding neighborhoods, and the &amp;quot;gangbanger mentality,&amp;quot; and, very likely, rap music. This one is going to be completely &amp;quot;politicized,&amp;quot; because it&amp;#039;s permissable in some quarters to &amp;quot;politicize&amp;quot; gun deaths as long as the &amp;quot;politicization&amp;quot; is aimed at the correct strawmen. The only time it&amp;#039;s not permissable to &amp;quot;politicize&amp;quot; gun deaths is when we talk about, you know, guns. We can&amp;#039;t talk about how absurdly easy our laws make it to buy guns in one place for the purpose of going to some other place in order to flood it with illegal iron. We can&amp;#039;t talk about why our laws make that so absurdly easy. We can&amp;#039;t talk about who the people are who cause our laws to make it so absurdly easy. That is &amp;quot;politicizing&amp;quot; a tragedy. Better to have some white lady on Fox tell us that &amp;quot;gangsta-rap&amp;quot; made them do it. Better to have Bill O&amp;#039;Reilly blame it on people fking without his permission. That way, the people on the receiving end don&amp;#039;t really have to count because, in some secret, barely coded way, they are partly to blame. But that&amp;#039;s not &amp;quot;politicizing&amp;quot; anything. Oh, hell, no. A witness at the scene said three police officers carried the child to an ambulance. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t hear no sounds,&amp;quot; from the child, he said. Family members identified the boy as Deonta&amp;#039; Howard, whose uncle was shot to death on Labor Day, Sept. 2. Deonta&amp;#039;--pronounced Deontay--nicknamed Tay Man, has a dislike for haircuts, one cousin said. &amp;quot;He didn&amp;#039;t like haircuts because he has a big head,&amp;quot; said Porsche Chester, a cousin of the boy&amp;#039;s. &amp;quot;But he is extremely smart. He didn&amp;#039;t have that (head) for nothing.&amp;quot; If he&amp;#039;s so smart, how come he wasn&amp;#039;t born in Oak Park or somewhere? Huh? Huh? The problem is too damn many guns in too damn many hands in too damn many places. The issue is dead in Congress for the foreseeable future, dead being only a metaphor, at least as regards the issue. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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