5 Month Year Old Baby Murdered

The CNN article written by Ashley Fantz "Chicago Baby Shot While Dad Changes Diaper" is about a 5 month year old baby and her father being shot. Her father survived the shooting but the baby Jonylah Watkins died the next day.

The article has quotes and facts. A quote that stood out to me was “We don’t have one individual who’s stepping up to help us,” said the police superintendent Garry McCarthy. Why isn’t anyone helping the police? To put the murderer of a 5 month year old baby behind bars? What was her father or her mother into to cause her to get shot? All these questions come to mind when I read this article and seen this quote.

This is an important topic. This topic should encourage better gun laws. To make sure guns is in the right hands. It’s sad that she could not have a life and now her mother and father got to live with the fact that the life they live got their daughter shot and killed.

It should be no reason from 2011 to 2012 there was a 15% increase. From the 448 homicides in 2011 there should have been changes. Gun laws should have gotten stricter in Chicago.

I can connect this to a shooting that happened outside of a daycare. Both articles involve kids, just in one article one got killed and in another none got hurt. The articles are similar because kids were around at both times. Children should not have to suffer because they are at the wrong place at the wrong time.