Two people are dead and at least 27 others have been wounded in shootings across the city of Chicago during the Memorial Day weekend. The first fatal shooting of the weekend was reported at approximately 2:14 p.m. Saturday afternoon in the 3100 block of West Ogden Avenue. According to Chicago police, a 26-year-old man was driving eastbound on the roadway.
Two men were killed and at least 10 others were wounded, including a 12-year-old boy who was grazed by gunfire in a drive-by shooting, at the outset of the Memorial Day Weekend on Friday and Saturday, Chicago police said. The first fatal shooting happened about 2:15 p.m. Saturday in the 3100 block of West Ogden Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said. A 26-year-old .
Haraz N. Ghanbari
Now there’s a headline I never imagined writing, but journalist J. Coyden Palmer of the
Chicago Crusader has an idea that gun owners everywhere should get behind: naming a school for Second Amendment activist Otis McDonald, the Chicago resident who challenged the city’s ban on handguns in court and eventually won his case when the Supreme Court ruled that the ban violated McDonald’s right to keep a gun in his home for self-defense.
As Palmer notes, the Chicago Public Schools announced last December that it was going to look into renaming schools that bear the name of slaveholders. Now, regardless of what you think of that decision, Palmer makes a great case in favor of honoring McDonald for his civil rights activism to ensure that the Second Amendment rights of residents weren’t denied to them.