The Trace, Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun “news” outlet, profiles a gang-banging, non-productive member of society (spending ten years getting a four-year degree is not a productive member of society) in its quest to tug at the heartstrings of low-information types.

A Young Chicago Woman Has Lost 23 Loved Ones to Gun Violence. She Wants You To See Their Faces.

Who is this woman that seems to have uncanny luck and knowing a lot of people killed by (black on black) criminal violence?

• Williams has more than 3,000 Facebook friends.

Wow.  Does she buy them from Nigerian princes?

• Williams joined a gang in elementary school

There’s some responsible decision-making.

• bought her first handgun in sixth grade

At a gun store?  Hardly.

• began dealing drugs in high school.

My extracurricular activities in high school were golf and the academic bowl team.  I guess not everyone can be an astronaut or other productive member of society.

• pregnant at 19 with her first illegitimate child.

More good decision making.

• dad died of AIDS

I’m sure it wasn’t his fault.

• Williams began fighting in school and getting suspended.

Truly an honor student!

• Williams soon fell in with a group of teenage boys that belonged to a local gang.

She just “fell in” with gang bangers??  Nah, there’s no personal responsibility there.

• When she was in fifth grade, two of them taught her how to shoot. For target practice they would set up light fixtures on a backyard fence where one of them lived.

Because Chicago is just one big, open-air shooting range.

It gets better.

A year later, in sixth grade, Williams got her first gun: a loaded 9mm pistol she bought from a friend with $25 of her allowance money. After school, she’d rush home and stuff the heavy weapon in her backpack before heading out. She’d pull it out of her pack to scare kids in the neighborhood. “That power, that fear that other people had, I got a rush off that,” she says.w

She got a rush bullying people with her illegally obtained pistol.  Nice.  What a contributor to societal greatness.

By high school, Williams had begun to sell marijuana. “I wanted to be the female [Pablo] Escobar,” she says. “I just wanted to sell drugs and get cars.”

Sell drugs, get cars.  Sure.  And the average drug dealer makes what, sub-minimum wage before they get caught?

Education and hard work is for chumps.

So the story goes and tells about dozens of people she’s known that have gotten dead.  Well, birds of a feather flock together.  And they tend to buy the farm together as well, especially while engaging in the “hip hop” lifestyle.

And the update at the top of the story was a nice touch.

Less than 24 hours after this story was edited, gun violence claimed the life of yet another close friend of Williams’s. On March 26, Cordero Mosley, 27, was shot six times on Chicago’s South Side. The two had been friends since grade school.

Here’s our story looking at victims of Chicago’s inner-city violence on a single weekend in January (when it was cold outside).

Here’s some of what we found from that weekend:

The most telling things in page after page of victims?

1. Only two had no criminal history and no gang affiliation.  The first was a 21-year-old Hispanic male driving in the area of Laramie and Deming when he felt a pain in his foot.  He went home and realized he’d been shot.  Cops believe he just happened to be driving through when “Spanish Four-Corner Hustlers” were shooting it out with the “Pachucos”.  Of course, when cops canvassed the neighborhood where the injury occurred, nobody knew anything.  The second was a female present when her girlfriend tried to shoot her own brother in an altercation over a cell phone.  Read on for the Jerry Springer-like narrative from that incident!

2. Only two of twenty-eight incidents had suspect information listed.  Not arrests, mind you.  Merely suspect information.  The suspects, three total, had 17 arrests between them and only four convictions.

3. The victims, almost without exception, were all gang affiliated or hanging with people with known gang affiliations.

4. There was one justifiable use of deadly force listed.

5. The justifiable use of deadly force we were looking for – the Z&S Liquor store robbery thwarted by a shop owner – was not listed.