Those fighting Chicago gun violence dismayed by Supreme Court decision

CHICAGO (WLS) — A celebration was held Thursday evening because the Metropolitan Peace academy sends new graduates into Chicago communities to work to finish gun violence, the identical day because the Supreme Courtroom voted to ease restrictions on these carrying weapons by overturning New York’s legal guidelines limiting conceal carry licenses.

“The battle I am up in opposition to, gun violence, is tough to help something in the case of weapons. They’re taking our child’s lives,” mentioned Joshua Coakley, Goal Space Growth Corp.

“It makes me tremendously indignant,” mentioned Fr. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church.

Father Pfleger has been preventing for preventing for more durable gun laws for years. He mentioned he thought it would occur after the current mass shootings together with on the elementary faculty in Uvalde Texas the place 21 individuals have been killed.

“They’re saying the lives of kids are lower than the lives of those that wish to carry a gun,” he mentioned.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who spoke on the Peace Academy commencement, mentioned the ruling sends the mistaken message. Governor JB Pritzker agreed, tweeting, “With youngsters dying and with mass shootings on daily basis, I am extraordinarily pissed off that the Supreme Courtroom would take away a typical sense device to guard individuals from gun violence.”

These on the entrance strains in Chicago say that’s their problem.

“We do not wish to give individuals the instruments to mass shoot or resolve a battle in a taking pictures,” mentioned Vaughn Bryant, Metropolitan Peace Initiative.

Observers say that is the Supreme Courtroom’s first main ruling on gun management since 2010 after they overturned town of Chicago’s legislation banning gun possession within the metropolis.