Even The Code of the Street is Gone

20 or 30 years ago, even gang members in Chicago had limits and a sense of what was going too far. No more. Police Say Assailants Targeted 71-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Wright When They Shot Into Her House, Killing Her

Price said those toting the guns in Chicago have no regard for the street code that once existed. Under that code, gangs would not touch certain people.

“Children, elderly, women – you know, definitely children and women,” Price said. “Today, there is no ‘off-limits.’”

The reference to "definitely children" was reference to a gang truce in the 1990s that stemmed from a child being shot in the crossfire. That wouldn't happen today.

As for why the shooting happened. She let a family member or two move in with her.

Chicago Police detectives late Monday were working to figure out who fired into the woman’s house and killed Wright. But as to the question of why, the investigation leads to someone very close to the 71-year-old – and that leads many to question what happened to the old street code.

Neighbors are shocked, of course. They always are. But this incident is just another indication that society is collapsing in on itself. There is no right and wrong. There is no good and evil. There is no reckoning, not in this life, and no one believes in the next. [Insert reference to Hobbes' State of War Here.]