Posted on 07/07/2016 8:31:11 AM PDT by granada
Despite having some of the toughest gun regulations of any city in the country, Chicago continues to record thousands of shootings per year. As President Obama has pointed out, that isn’t a failing of the city’s gun laws. The problem is that most of the guns used in crimes in Chicago come from neighboring states with lax gun laws. A study released last year by the city found that almost 60 percent of firearms recovered at Chicago crime scenes were first bought in states that do not require background checks for Internet or gun show sales, like neighboring Indiana and Wisconsin. Of the remaining crime guns, nearly half were purchased at three gun shops just outside the city.
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Nothing to do with the fact that Chicago is a city full of criminals and run by criminals.
Let’s be frank: There is no “gun problem”.
What there is is a “black violence problem”.
And the solution to black violence is not to disarm law abiding white people, or any law abiding people.
My lib cousin claims folks are simply going to nearby Gary Indiana to buy guns, that Chicago gun laws actually work. Right.
“Often there’s a misimpression about the importance of assault guns and assault weapons, and it’s important to point out how rare that is,” says Phillip Cook, an economist at Duke University who studies underground gun markets.
Cool. Since Democrats aren’t anti-science. We can forget about “assault weapon bans”. That’s a load off my mind.
If neighboring areas have lax gun laws, why aren’t their crime rates as high as Chicago?
If an assault weapon is typically black, then would spray painting a super-soaker black make it an assault weapon?
“As President Obama has pointed out, that isn’t a failing of the city’s gun laws. The problem is that most of the guns used in crimes in Chicago come from neighboring states with lax gun laws.”
You’d be surprise how many people I gun down in the street due to lax gun laws in my neighboring states. One of my neighboring states is Wyoming so let’s see, how many people have I gunned down out in the street? Oh yeah, ZERO. I guess maybe there is something else, something other than gun laws that determines whether I commit crimes.
Not one Springfield Armoury?
That confirms the article’s premise.
That being that the only reason Chicongo has a murder problem is the neighboring states’ adherence to the the Constitution. That and some companies actually making affordable firearms for the people who cannot afford a top of the line firearm.
Or something.
This statement is quite misleading. Regardless, of where the guns were purchased the overwhelming majority were stolen by either the shooter or someone else who illegally sold it to the shooter. I also note that the places with these supposedly "lax gun laws" don't have near the shooting that Chicago has, so it's not the laws of these states that is the problem.
+1
Wisconsin is gaining though, thanks to Liberals at our local levels inviting the thugs from Chicagostan and the Twin Cities to live in Milwaukeestan and Madistan.
Free EVERYTHING, plus all the guns you can buy! If you build it, they will come!
*SPIT*
Because it’s perfectly legal for a Chicago resident to buy handguns in Indiana. Except that it isn’t. Criminals break laws. It’s what they do.
What are Chicago criminals’ favorite Italian beef joints? Want to avoid those!
That will always be the excuse. Someplace will have more lax gun laws than the jurisdiction you are in. The socialist will not be happy until all guns are banned and eliminated except the ones that they and their protectors have.
FTA: “From that hierarchy, a few patterns emerge. The city’s criminals, for instance, prefer semiautomatic pistols to revolvers and generally seek out cheap junk guns.”
Actually the visual chart shows the opposite as far as cheap junk guns*, Bersas, Lorcins, Ravens are not preferred, but S&W, Colt, Ruger are.
*I remember the days of “Saturday night specials”, this is a reprise
Just like Mexico blames its domestic voilence on America. Blame guns, blame neighbours.............
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