Tags: Gun Control

Chicago police said at least one gunman walked up to a basketball court at Cornell Square Park in the southside of Chicago on Thursday evening and opened fire, injuring 13 people. The police said that thirteen people who were hit had varying injuries. Those wounded, including a serious injury to a 3-year-old boy, are being treated at local hospitals in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood

The Armed Citizen Project, like its name connotes, proposed over the weekend that they hope to arm citizens by giving them shotguns, to protect from criminals. Their aim is reportedly to give out shotguns to people in fifteen cities throughout America, including in Chicago.

The U.S. Senate defeated a compromise plan in a vote 54-46 to expand background checks on firearms sale as well as a proposal to ban some semi-automatic weapons modeled after military assault weapons.