What are you even saying? Like this a is a conspiracy where two competing gangs are just putting on an act, so they can use Bobby Rush to...sell drugs?

You make it sound shady; dude wrote about it in the Trib:

I met with Larry and Jeff separately for about an hour and a half each....

I met first with Larry, whose name has become so legendary in some of today's rap lyrics. I asked him what could be done to halt the violence. He advised me that we need to better predict the "hot spots" for violence and start communicating with those individuals committing the crimes to dissuade them from resorting to violence to solve their problems and conflicts.

When Larry rose to leave the interview room, he turned and said: "Tell them. don't follow in my footsteps and end up like me."

It's folly for Rep. Bobby Rush to ask ex-Chicago gang leaders for help It's folly for Rep. Bobby Rush to ask ex-Chicago gang leaders for help I asked Jeff the same question. Jeff's take was that respect of life, order and discipline needs to be restored in order to change the course of this plague of violence. He said he believes young people lack respect for themselves and, thus, don't respect any form of authority. Jeff said he believes respect and discipline begins in the homes of these young people. Parents, Jeff noted, need to take back the respect lost to them and to other authority figures.

Larry and Jeff are in their 60s, my age group. We think like elders and our values and judgment are those of elders. According to Scripture: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

Chicago's violence is as notorious as Hoover and Fort. The widespread violence in Chicago has gone on for too long. Two years ago, I hosted an emergency violence summit in Chicago to summon a communitywide, solutions-based forum. I have also invited key city stakeholders to my district office on East 79th Street, unfortunately dubbed "Murder's Row," for an anti-violence summit.

I went to the supermax prison in Colorado because we must explore every option to gain the understanding and wisdom needed to end the carnage in our cities. When our young people are at war with each other and society, we all lose. As a member of Congress who has recorded far too many violent deaths in my district, I cannot rest until peace and sanity are restored. Our young people deserve futures that do not include spending time in prison.