No One is Immune

Even Commanders are getting shot at:

• SWAT teams swarmed a home in the city's South Chicago neighborhood after shots were fired at a police district commander late Thursday night. A five-hour standoff with the suspects ended early Friday morning.
  
  Police said five suspects were taken into custody around 3:30 a.m. Friday without incident and several weapons were recovered from the scene.
  
  The commander was checking out a suspicious person in an alley in the 8800-block of South Saginaw Avenue around 10:20 p.m. Thursday when one or more people opened fire on his unmarked patrol car, police said.

Just to be on the safe side, Special Ed stripped the commander for taking fire.

All is well that ends well, but let's be serious - until these offenders and other gun offenders start getting real prison time, extensive prison time, far from here, things like this are going to keep on happening.

Minimum five year sentences in federal prisons far from home has worked wonders in the past in other states (look up Project Exile and similar sentencing). Ten year sentences would likely cut the homicide rate by half if politicians had the guts to stick up for the law abiding instead of catering to the criminal underclass.