"Six found slain in Gage Park home, including child: 'We don't know what happened'"

This is another in a long line of similar happenings in Chicago and across the USA.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-multiple-people-dead-southwest-side-20160204-story.html

I'm not sure that's a massacre by Chicago terms.
One person in Chicago is shot every 2.8hrs.
Just one suburb has had over 40 shooting victims already this year (gang violence) and the total for Chicago this year is 312 shooting victims.

You might think with stats like these I might be against guns, but its a complicated situation in that Chicago already is a 'gun free zone' and has stringent gun control laws in effect.

"However, they [police] do not believe that the killing was random and believe that the family was specifically targeted, saying the murders may be linked to a drug cartel."

If true its just another example of the mayhem caused by the 'War on Drugs'. Legalise the bloody things and there'll be no need for wars on drugs or wars between dealers and cartels. The homicide rate in the US will fall by at least 50%, insurance premiums by a similar amount. The goals will empty. Drugs could be sold under government licence, controlled and monitored. Addicts would get a fixed known dose so overdoses would fall.

Prohibition never works. Never.

Are you sure it's not working mhaze. As a way to have an undesirable element of society exterminate themselves, I get the impression it might be working very well.

The losers are gone, & the cops have a reason to lock up the winners. What better system could their be?

I am amazed that in a gun-toting country like America, especially in Chicago, that there wasn't someone in that house that could have defended the others against the killer with the knife?

Obviously, the good ol' US God given right to bear arms didn't help at all in this case.
If drugs were involved, I guess murder is often the result, no matter by what means.
It is very sad, especially for the child.

Suse,

Chicago has very, very strict gun laws and the ordinary citizen in Chicago is deterred from having any effective means of self defence, just like Australia.

Wonder why the Australian media didn't highlight this massacre?
Maybe because it involved knives.

Wonder is that the Greens didn't hop on the bandwagon and start screaming for stricter knife laws.