Please don't kill me!

Please don't kill me

Don't shot I want to grow up! That's the posters around Chicago's neighborhoods to try to stop the violence. Without knowing we are so afraid of our little children to grow up in such a mess up world, where people fight to see who has more power. But by killing innocent children, killing others as well. As a matter of fact gangs have always taken a big part of Chicago's residents, ever since 1919 when the segregation started. Two different groups started fighting over territory over where they were supposed to be. Sadly this violence still happens until now, but now is not because of territory to see who has more power without caring about the ethnicity of the group. In 2014, on the month of July about 278 were wounded and shot and on August 54 murders. The rate of violence in summer is the worst; the gangs have no way to stop. Most of the murders also are students, innocent kids that might be playing outside their house. This innocent kids that are barely growing up seem to even be scare going home or on their way to school. Yet, these gangs take advantages of these kids and try to incorporate them into the wrong path. Chicago is known by "Chiraq" we can't call a place home after all this violence and killing. The killing of innocent kids, for example on a sunny afternoon more like a June day, Aliyah a 6 year old girl was killed, by several gunshots in her  abdomen. She later died at Mount Sinai Medical Center. No innocent kid should be killed; they don't get to choose their future. Later on, they had a memorial day to remember her, with lots of balloons and people saying the memories they had of her. But it doesn't stop there, more violence still happens.  Theirs more people kill in Chicago rather than U.S soldiers in Afghanistan. Violence is not going to stop ever, but what we could do is help those others that still have the opportunity to succeed. For example theirs this association that helps others, young adults and kids to feel safe to play in the park. Beyond the Ball for 7 years almost have try to get everyone out of the streets, by cleaning the community, doing art, sports, even some of them get to get jobs. It's just the effort you make to succeed in life. No other innocent people have to die, or be afraid of going out. This should be a safe country for those who choose the right path. Everyone has the right to live right and not to be afraid of the violence of "Chiraq's" streets.