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Why St. Louis Should Move to Illinois - It doesn’t belong in Missouri anymore
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| Feb. 16 2015
| Alec MacGillis
Posted on 02/17/2015 7:25:46 AM PST by Second Amendment First
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At the end of the day, any legislation restricting guns, period, is difficult to do in Missouri, because its: I need to be able to carry a gun in St. Louis to defend myself,
The reason I carry in St Louis, and never enter Illinois period.
To: Second Amendment First
But a New York Times article on Tuesday noted that St. Louis police are contending with a factor that their counterparts in many other high-crime cities are not: exceedingly lax gun laws.And that is why Chicago has such a low murder rate - tight gun laws.
Oops, the opposite is the case.
Liberals - never letting the facts get in the way of their opinions.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:27:38 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Second Amendment First
Statistically, the black-on-black murder rate is the highest ethnic rate in the US. I wonder if there has been a study that correlates the proportion of blacks in an SMSA with the murder rate. That would be interesting to know.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:32:25 AM PST
by
econjack
(I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
To: econjack; Second Amendment First
I live near Chicago. This state has enough crime, and we don’t need another city that has a high crime rate.
To: Second Amendment First
St Louis has double Chicago’s murder rate (35 per 100K vs 19 per 100K population). Chicago PD has 50 cops per sq mile. St Louis has 20. I suspect that accounts for the lion’s share of the difference.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:40:17 AM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Second Amendment First
Blacks who are, on average, more crime-prone, are 50% of St Louis’s population, but only 33% of Chicago’s population. So that’s another factor accounting for St Louis’s higher murder rate.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:43:42 AM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Second Amendment First
The way the Mississippi River tends to meander from its course....it could happen someday.
To: Buckeye McFrog
The way the Mississippi River tends to meander from its course....it could happen someday. If I'm not mistaken, the state line is the center of the river..........wherever the river may go.
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posted on
02/17/2015 8:04:52 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
To: Second Amendment First
St Louis should move to Illinois? I’ll go them one better: all the Democrats in St Louis should move to Illinois, preferably to Chicago.
Chicago wouldn’t notice the difference and the murder rate and overall crime rate in St Louis would drop to next to nothing.
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posted on
02/17/2015 8:06:55 AM PST
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
To: Second Amendment First
Liberalism failed the residents of St. Louis. So let’s give them to Illinois for more of the same.
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posted on
02/17/2015 8:12:33 AM PST
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: Second Amendment First
D E M O G R A P H I C S.
You can’t change the world to make excuses and ignore the problem. Blacks have a culture problem, and it shows up in every statistic liberals whine about. They just refuse to link it to the problems.
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posted on
02/17/2015 8:13:40 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
To: Graybeard58
“The way the Mississippi River tends to meander from its course....it could happen someday.
If I’m not mistaken, the state line is the center of the river..........wherever the river may go. “
A small chunk of Iowa is on the west side of the Missouri River, due to a channel shift.
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posted on
02/17/2015 8:26:51 AM PST
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: Second Amendment First
Though his logic sucks, I like his idea of moving all the libs to the same state(s).
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posted on
02/17/2015 8:37:00 AM PST
by
aquila48
To: Second Amendment First
St. Louis would be better off in the long run if they’d blow up that bridge.
To: Second Amendment First
Hey, we already have East St. Louis. Keep St. Louis where it is. :)
To: Second Amendment First
Isn’t East St. Louis in Ill (although the two are separated by the Mississippi)? I know that every time I drove through on the interstate, I lock my doors at 70mph. East St. Louis is a nasty, nasty place.
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posted on
02/17/2015 9:38:05 AM PST
by
submarinerswife
(Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
To: stars & stripes forever
Hey, we already have East St. Louis. Keep St. Louis where it is E. St. Louis is a small town comparatively. Population around 27,000.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:08:12 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
To: submarinerswife
Isnt East St. Louis in Ill (although the two are separated by the Mississippi)? I know that every time I drove through on the interstate, I lock my doors at 70mph. East St. Louis is a nasty, nasty place. E. St. Louis is a small town (about 27,000), you don't really see it from I-55, just the exit sign, blink and you'll miss it.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:12:08 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
To: Graybeard58
82,000 people lived in East St. Louis in 1960.
Then civilization collapsed.
To: Second Amendment First
Criminologists point to all the usual reasons for the violence: a thriving drug trade, high unemployment among young men, and so on.Why don't they point to the most obvious one,... a large population of feral blacks who have been brought up in a criminal, fatherless culture?
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posted on
02/17/2015 12:32:57 PM PST
by
Gritty
(Islam is not a peaceful religion. It never has been. It never will be .- Franklin Graham)
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