(IBD) Mayor Rahm Emanuel of murder capital Chicago Goes After 1st And 2nd Amendments

Guns: A 15-year-old girl who performed at the president's inauguration  is gunned down by gangs less than a mile from Barack Obama's home. What does  Chicago's mayor do? He blames banks who lend gun makers money.

Hadiya Pendleton, who just days before had performed with her high school  band at President Obama's inauguration, was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in  Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood, just blocks from the high school she  attended.

The park where she was killed is a little less than a mile from President  Obama's Kenwood home.

In addition to Hadiya, two men were killed and eight other people wounded  Tuesday night in Chicago, arguably the most violent city in the country despite  having the most restrictive gun laws.

Chicago by Sunday had reached 41 homicides, surpassing the January 2012  homicide toll.

With seven homicides, Saturday was the deadliest day of the young year as the  Windy City exceeds the deadly toll at Newtown, Conn., without much media  fanfare. The carnage included a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost  her three other children to shootings.

Confronted with a rising body count that exceeded 500 in 2012, Chicago Mayor  and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, not letting this crisis go  to waste, has sent letters to two major financial institutions, TD Bank and Bank  of America, which offer lines of credit to gun makers.

He suggested that they stop lending money to the manufacturers and come out  for new gun restrictions.

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