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Strict gun laws haven't stemmed Chicago bloodshed
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| 1/29/13
| MONICA DAVEY , New York Times
Posted on 01/30/2013 12:40:17 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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They just don't get it in Chicago.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
What would happen if people in Chicago were permitted to freely possess and carry?
It would be fun to try it and find out.
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posted on
01/30/2013 12:47:41 PM PST
by
lurk
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
If banning guns worked, Chicago would be a model of safety. Their ban wasn’t meant to keep criminals from getting them, only law abiding citizens.
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posted on
01/30/2013 12:48:57 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There is no requirement to show need in order to exercise your rights.)
To: lurk
I predict not a lot because the people killing each other are black and Hispanic gang bangers.
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posted on
01/30/2013 12:50:28 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There is no requirement to show need in order to exercise your rights.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. Yet there have been 41 murders in the month of January which puts it right on track to meet last year’s 500+. That’s 2x what LA has and 4x what New York City has, and Chicago ranks 3rd in size behind those two cities. Holder’s people just like to kill.
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posted on
01/30/2013 12:50:27 PM PST
by
South40
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Cheap shots from corrupt liberal bosses. While the DC Supreme court decisions may have paved the way for law-abiding citizens to rearm themselves legitimately, Chicago’s murder statistics aren’t affected by them. That is the sole boon resulting from corrupt local government’s choice to ignore the real, ethinic/racial problem.
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posted on
01/30/2013 12:51:14 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: lurk
"What would happen if people in Chicago were permitted to freely possess and carry?" They need no permit, in my opinion. I know you agree. But allow me to suggest an improved phrasing so the gun-grabbers understand:
"What would happen if people in Chicago were to fully exercise their rights instead of having them unconstitutionally trampled?"
There. That's better. :-)
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posted on
01/30/2013 12:55:27 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Of the government, by the government, and for the government.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
It’s against the law to sell crack or meth in Chicago too... and it’s against the law in all the surrounding cities. And ALL over the country too.
Does the above fact have a chance seeping into the brain of a New York Times person? Will they ‘get’ what that might mean?
Does giving organized crime a billion dollar industry seem like a good idea to ‘oh so liberal’ journalists? Might there be implications and unintended consequences?
Are they stupid?
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:07:22 PM PST
by
GOPJ
( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo; All
As expected, the “solution” offered by the article is to make the infringements even stricter, make the penalties tougher, and apply them across the entire nation!
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:08:15 PM PST
by
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Not only are the victims mostly poor minorities, the perps pose no threat to the elite.
They’re not going anywhere near these neighborhoods without a plenty of armed security and a pre-visit security blanket.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:08:51 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
But MN dems invite more thugs here from there then won’t why crime want up.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:13:00 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: South40
Holders people just like to kill.
Perhaps City Council members in Big Cities such as Chicago should finally come to terms with the underlying problem of a huge criminal population. Laws do not matter to those who don't care to serve a year or more in prison.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:16:07 PM PST
by
Eagle of Liberty
(Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
To: TurboZamboni
Oh, come on....we all just need another round of diversity training!
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
...Rev. Ira Acree, a pastor who has marched and gathered signatures for an end to so much shooting. "Chicago is an argument for laws that are statewide or, better yet, national." Rev Acree needs to get out of Chicago a little more... The lessons that need to be learned from Chicago have nothing to do with extending their stupid laws to more civilized areas of the country. Clueless... totally clueless.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:31:27 PM PST
by
GOPJ
( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Oh, come on....we all just need another round of diversity training!
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I wonder if they have tried MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL?
If nothing else another way to have a money grab from the Fed.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:37:51 PM PST
by
xrmusn
(6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Estimates Ive seen work out the the fact that for every gun murder in the US last year there were thousands of gun owners who didnt hurt anyone with their gun. And who no doubt consider it downright rude to suggest anything else.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:41:41 PM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Just pass a law requiring registration and buying a license.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:41:51 PM PST
by
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:42:08 PM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: Gaffer
Taking guns from Americans and sending F16s to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama’s America.
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:44:32 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: deoetdoctrinae
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posted on
01/30/2013 1:45:50 PM PST
by
Paladin2
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