With More Children in Peril, a Call to Unarm

Chastity Turner, 9, was bathing the family dog on her grandmother's porch at the end of June. it was the beginning of summer in Chicago. There was sunshine, a garden hose and drool. Then gun shots. "I've learned that life is short," says Chastity's cousin, Chante Moffett. Life was much too short for Chastity, ending that day when a bullet pierced the back of her neck, the result of a gang shooting from a moving van. She became one of 40 Chicago school children gunned down this year, but sadly...Full Story