some might argue that this underscores Obama’s call for more gun control while in Chicago. But in a city that’s had some of the strongest gun control laws in the United States, this woman’s death speaks to a much more complicated issue – and one where if I were in Chicago, I’d want to have a gun.

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FOX 32 – 18 year old Janay McFarlane was fatally shot just hours after her younger sister Destini Warren attended President Barack Obama’s speech at Hyde Park Career Academy on Friday.

In an emotional interview, McFarlane’s mother Angela Blakely broke down in tears saying her daughter did not deserve to die.

“Every time I think about the way my child died it’s hard to think about her dying like that because she didn’t deserve it, she didn’t deserve dying like that,” said Blakely.

Police say the teen was visiting family and friends in North Chicago when she was shot in the head in an alley. She was reportedly with a friend who family members say was the intended target.

“Janay was a strong person, she was a beautiful person, she was a fun, loving person, she was just an all outgoing kind of person and again as I’ve told others, just being in Janay’s presence is fun, she always has a way to make anybody smile,” said Blakely.

For McFarlane’s younger sister Destini Warren who sat just steps behind President Obama on Friday as he gave a speech about growing violence in Chicago and across the country – the tragedy is surreal.

“It really hurt me when I find out that it happened to my sister because I was just listening to… I was thinking about her dying when he was saying it and then later on they called me and told me it happened to my sister,” said Warren.

Janay McFarlane attended Hyde Park Career Academy until she gave birth to her son Jayden last year. Family members describe a young woman with a bright future and big dreams abruptly cut short.

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aZjimbo
aZjimbo

Just another day in the land of rahmbo.

Susan
Susan

What a coincidence that this poor girl was murdered and another girl, who was in the Obama inaugural parade, was murdered in Chicago several weeks after the inauguration. I believe that the Obama administration is evil enough to kill innocents to push their gun agenda, the same way they used Sandy Hook to try to forward it.

JoJo58
JoJo58

It's sad. But why would her sister be thinking about her older sister being shot while listening to Obama? Not so sure about the bright futures of young, unwed mothers in a city like Chicago.

notsofastthere
notsofastthere

Rahm Emanuel needs to 'step up to the plate' and get rid of his armed security guards.

Lead by example Rham!

notsofastthere
notsofastthere

.."Family members describe a young woman with a bright future and big dreams abruptly cut short."

Janay dropped out of school, had an illegitimate child, was with a friend in an alley who was the target of the shooting. What bright future??

It's sorrowful and the family seemed nice, but guns aren't the problem.

LIBERTYUSA
LIBERTYUSA

...as in Toronto a spike in teenage murders being commited by the scum of our community using ILLEGAL HAND GUNS , it is time to implement LEGAL CONCEALED GUN PERMITS to all the legal citizens of Canada and it is time to re institute a MANDATORY 4year CONSCRIPTION into any one of the branches of the Canadian Armed Forces ." (period)

deTocqueville1
deTocqueville1

Very, very sad. One can only pray for the family.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

I agree. Out living your children is the worst thing that can happen to a parent. :-(

colliemum
colliemum

It is sad that a young girl has lost her life.

It is despicable that the usual suspects, from the POS down, are using this and other deaths, perpetrated by criminals (after all, using a gun in Chicago is a criminal offense, no?) to make criminals of all law abiding citizens, through their 'gun control' laws.

By now it must be obvious even to some LIVs that their aim is not to reduce gun deaths - else they'd go after those criminals with the full force of the law.

They do not. They want a disarmed people, that's why they don't use the existing laws.

Wolfie
Wolfie

NObama won't care. The victim is black the killer is black. He only feigns concern when he can somehow exploit the death to advance his own agenda. Since he can't exploit this, he doesn't give a rats Heiney about it.

NYGino
NYGino

Missed you Wolfie. Every day you're missing I get dumber and dumber.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Good thing I came back... Another week and you'd be down to my level of dumbness! ;-)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Wolfie's back! Yay. In the infamous words of Tom Hanks to Mr. Jingles in The Green Mile, "Where you bin', boy?"

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

I was wondering the same thing Nukeman but then, I suppose I could have just e-mailed him, huh. :-/

Wolfie
Wolfie

He and I were in contact (very briefly) by email. Orangeone and Ducky knew about my issue too. :-) I told them incase anyone asked where the heck I disappeared to so you wouldn't think I'd lost faith in the cause and just gave up and ran away or something libtardish like that! ;-)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

I was about to send out the Marines (MiketheMarine) to find him. I believe they are in the same liberal area (well, close anyway - Ma, Md, both too far NorthEast for me).

Wolfie
Wolfie

N/p Tinlizzieowner! I'm just happy to be back! :-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

Hard drive crashed. 3 weeks to the day, I'm back. My wife helped me (actually did all the work) and was able to clone my old hard drive before it totally died. So the transition was much easier than it's been in previous years. She cloned the old drive, swapped them out and I was able to boot up and all my programs, settings, personalization and data were exactly as they had been before. Yea! :-) I missed being here. I could read but could not post on my Nook, but now, for better or for worse, I'm back again! It feels great to be back among my friends again too!! :-)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

'I was like this when I was 20... It's just me... not age... this year 50 I think...' - Wolfie

Just remember (if you can), that also works to your advantage. Think of all the books and movies you can see over and over and over again as if they were brand new. ;-)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Start with the large print and easy puzzles. It sounds degrading, but you quickly work up. The brain is a muscle that must be exercized. Too many people 'exorcize' them instead.

A quick story. Three years ago, my Mom (who was 80 at the time) had a mini stroke and found out that one of her carotid arteries was 90% blocked while the other one was 50% blocked. They performed some surgery, putting in stents and cleaning them out, which saved her life.

Her memory wasn't so good after that and her handwriting looked like a 3 year-old. I got her on crossword puzzles, starting with the large print, easy to do. It took her a long time for each and the letters were hardly distinguishable. Three years later, at 83, she zips through the hard ones and her handwriting is better than mine.

You know you're there when you can do the New York Times double page crossword (the only thing worthwhile in the NYT, it turns out).

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Yes, I was going to go there, I just got distracted.

;-) ;-)

white531
white531

I was just fooling with you, tinlizzie. For all that, allow me to dissect your comment a bit.

"She started out life with no future, she, her mommy and her 5 siblings were on their way to the Pound."

You don't see the similarity?

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Good one.:-)

She started out life with no future, she, her mommy and her 5 siblings were on their way to the Pound. :-( Now they all have comfotrable homes. :-)

I've got a lot of compassion for animals. Humans, not so much.

Wolfie
Wolfie

:-) I was like this when I was 20... It's just me... not age... this year 50 I think... ;-)

white531
white531

My wife is constantly losing her cellphone somewhere in the house, but she can remember something I said three years ago, like it was yesterday.

white531
white531

The kitten is named, "BO," and she's black and white. Do we know anything more about her, or have her records been sealed? :)

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

I have a .32 cal revolver I take to work. The 'hand cannon' is just too big in a pinch.

The name of the game is to put a slug IN an armed robber, not blow holes clear through the building and possibly innocent customers. ;-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

:-) I like BO! ;-)

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

'Pauly', she came with the name. We have 2 cats, the kitten is named "BO", she's black and white, the Mrs. wouldn't let me get away with naming her 'Barack' or 'Barry'.

;-) ;-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

Tried them. I can't do them. I've been on entire vacations in the last 10 years that I can barely remember ever going on. :-( If it was not for the many photos I'd wonder if I went at all.

Wolfie
Wolfie

They're in my favorite list too! :-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

LOL! Since I've never had a cat for a pet I've been spared that (fun?) :-)What's her name?

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Start doing a crossword puzzle a day. That will help tremendously (really). Might want to throw in a Sudoku for good luck, as well. :)

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

You got one of those too huh. Mine can find her way around the world by memory but it takes her 20 minutes to remember where she put her car keys last. I'm just the opposite, I know where everything is (as long as I don't have to leave the house), that's why we are such a great pair. :-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

I'm so jealous! My memory is spotty at best. :-( My wife's memory is great... She remembers everything... Thought there are things I wish she could forget... ;-)

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Very good. :-) I guess I couldn't have e-mailed you. I've been a little distracted. I've got a female cat that's been in heat for a week. It's almost been like having a WW2 British hooker sitting in the window screaming "Have a go Yank, have a go?", all damn night.

Well, she's done now and she's on the way to the Vet. If I can be 'spayed' (vasectomy), so can she. ;-)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

No, the "old timers" just hasn't set in yet. Unfortunately, there are many things I would wish to forget, but am unable to. Oh, well.

I'm a big movie buff and the lines always stick with me. They just seemed appropriate at the time. :)

Wolfie
Wolfie

Did someone buy you a book of movie quotes? ;-)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Well, once again, in the immortal words of Bruce Willis in Armageddon, "I got just five words for you: D@mn glad to see you boy!"

Wolfie
Wolfie

Thanks so much! :-) Back among my friends. What more could I ask for! :-)

Jimmy Travis
Jimmy Travis

PRAVDA & GUN RIGHTS

The English version of Pravda (yeah it’s still around) thought it necessary to remind us of the historical fact that in 1917 the first move the Red Army made was to take away all privately held guns. This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington's clandestine support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently. . Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but are in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position. In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill NC), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or "talking to them", it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves.

Rocco11
Rocco11

Obama is 'organizing' the Country about as well as he 'organized' Chicago...

white531
white531

Seems somehow oddly appropriate that our President is the product of Chicago politics.

I think you're right. He's using Chicago as a model.

OneThinDime
OneThinDime

He said he wanted nationwide gun control modeled after Chicago....hummmm

clockwindingdown
clockwindingdown

Why did "O" chose to go to Chicago, the most corrupt political city in our country, and start his political career?

Is it because he finds corruption to his liking, a tool to get ones way? Why is it he always uses Chicago political style arguments?

He chose to root himself in Chicago because he believes in a system of corruption, look at how he governs! He certainly openly despises our laws, he threatens to go around our laws constantly.

Does this sound like someone that believes in the foundation of our Country, a Country of men governed by laws?

clockwindingdown
clockwindingdown

Bingo, we have a winner!

He also believes everyone thinks as he does, he lacks an intellect that allows him to think independent of how his mind has been programmed. In this case he is a product of his up bringing, a very flawed and destructive programming.

He has never sought, at least as far as we know from the little information we have about him, to experience anything other then what his belief system is based.

He is the poster child of prejudice.

Prejudice: noun

1) preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience : English prejudice against foreigners | anti-Jewish prejudices. See note at bias .

• dislike, hostility, or unjust behavior formed on such a basis : accusations of racial prejudice.

2) chiefly Law harm or injury that results or may result from some action or judgment :

OneThinDime
OneThinDime

Me thinks he chose Chicago because it resembled his beliefs, power and corruption, no accountability, scream racism at every turn to get your way.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Why do you think he 'rigged' things up so 'Dead Fish' ended up as the Mayor. ;-) ;-)

white531
white531

That was something, wasn't it?