Chicago Violence Prompts Representative's Call for National Guard
The onslaught of gun crime in Chicago has spurred members of Congress to convene a summit on urban violence and prompted Rep. Monique Davis, a state lawmaker, to demand the National Guard be called in to stem the “mayhem.”
She said Thursday that hospitals are overburdened with 70 gunshot wounds in one day, and ambulances are so busy that victims are being driven in friends’ or family’s cars. David held a press conference this week to ask Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to call in the National Guard “to protect our children so they can go to the park and swim and play and have a childhood,” NBC News reports.