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   From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:28:13 GMT, er  wrote:   
   >I would like to see this a better city . I feel so powerless . I don't see   
   >people complaining. I don't see anything confronting our real issues here,   
   >so I am left with complaining . I feel so sorry for this woman and her   
   >family like I do every victim of violence. Its sad we have to watch all this   
   >everyday in the world and in our city and on tv every night. What a sad   
   >world. I am starting to believe its sane to be depressed.   
      
   There is a recent book about late 19th century Chicago.   
   Unfortunately I don't remember the title and author.   
   But I do remember that in a review of it it stated   
   that in one particular year there were *800* murders in Chicago.   
   This was in the 1890s.   
      
   While I grieve over the violence in our modern society, the   
   point I'm trying to make is violence and murder have been   
   here in this country, in large numbers, for a long, long   
   time. You imply that it's something new; it isn't.   
      
   KByrd   
      
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