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Chicago Police Know Where Gun Violence Is Coming From, But They Can’t Stop It
dailycaller.com ^ | 10/10/2017 | Anders Hagstrom

Posted on 10/11/2017 6:18:25 AM PDT by rktman

Illegal guns get into Chicago through lone dealers, not large trafficking organizations, and that makes any legislative action taken to stop the flow totally impractical, according to Chicago police.

Police researchers say that most illegal guns come from nearby states like Indiana and Iowa after being stolen or resold by their original owners, according to a Tuesday report from the Chicago Sun Times. In this way, the trafficking of firearms is different from the trafficking of illegal substances, which relies heavily on national and even international crime organizations. As a result, the arrest of individual gun dealers does virtually nothing to stop the flow of illegal firearms.

“You are a single salmon swimming upstream at Niagara Falls,” Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Sun Times. “If your policing strategy is to decrease the number of guns in your city, good luck, because there are too many guns out there. It’s better to go after the person with the gun.”

Police operations to take down these individual gun dealers usually take the form of sting operations and bribing street level offenders for information.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; blackviolence; chicago; chicagoviolence
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To: rktman

I can see a movie in the future with a mountain boy running illegal guns to Chicago, supplying items for doing the killings the Rednecks won’t do! the music starts something like this...

“Let me tell the story,
I can tell it all,
About the Mountain boy,
Who ran guns to Chica-go,
His daddy bought them local,
Son he drove the load,
And when his engine roared,
They called the highway,
THUNDER ROAD!”

Of course, the boy will be cast as AN evil southern redneck! NOT A MOUNTAIN HERO!


21 posted on 10/11/2017 7:05:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: rktman
What I would really like to see is for Chicago to put up checkpoints at every entrance to the city and require a complete inspection of all vehicles and individuals entering the city.

Now THAT would be a show worth televising ... between the law suits and the mayhem that would result, it's something that Chicago DESERVES.

I mean, after all, if it saves one child ...

22 posted on 10/11/2017 7:07:17 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: BlueLancer
🍿🍻🚬🚨🚧
23 posted on 10/11/2017 7:08:31 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Why isn’t the locales where the guns come from as violent or more violent than Chicago?


24 posted on 10/11/2017 7:14:47 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Texas resident

Nigerians?


25 posted on 10/11/2017 7:17:01 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: rktman

Why don’t ya’ll arrest some of the shooters instead?


26 posted on 10/11/2017 7:18:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: AppyPappy

Because they aren’t responsible. It’s the damn guns that commit all these crimes. #onlygunviolencematters.


27 posted on 10/11/2017 7:29:12 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Stop Question Search. SQS is the most effective anti gun and shooting method out there. It works and no new laws are required. Then they need to send the violators to prison. Even BATF,ICE and FBI could be doing it.


28 posted on 10/11/2017 7:36:30 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: rktman
They can't stop it? Yes, they can, but it will take a lot of work and it WILL piss off a lot of people.

29 posted on 10/11/2017 7:42:33 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Hollywood, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: caver

“So, gun dealers are going to risk losing their license as well as suffer jail time? I don’t believe this crap. And being from Indiana, I’m tired of hearing that we supply the guns to Chicago’s gangs. That’s BS”

Its already illegal to sell handguns to non residents of the state of sale.


30 posted on 10/11/2017 7:47:28 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: caver

Get Sgt. Voight on the case.


31 posted on 10/11/2017 8:07:42 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: rktman
The problem, as usual, is misidentified. This is not a matter of gun violence. It's a matter of negro violence.

Hey Jackass

In Chicago, there have been

Homicides in 2017 (to date): 552
Homicides in September 2017: 57
Homicides in October 2017 (to date): 19
Homicides during the current week (10/8-10/14):5
Homicides last weekend (10/6-10/8): 9

The vast majority are black people killing other black people. It's not guns. It's a dysfunctional, irresponsible, violent culture.

32 posted on 10/11/2017 8:14:06 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldexpat
"Stop Question Search. SQS is the most effective anti gun and shooting method out there. It works and no new laws are required."

Stopped? On what grounds?
33 posted on 10/11/2017 8:24:01 AM PDT by Garth Tater (Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
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To: caver

Project Exile. Bring it back.

L


34 posted on 10/11/2017 8:49:55 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Texas resident

“Chicago has banned guns,”

Untrue. Google up McDonald v City of Chicago.

L


35 posted on 10/11/2017 8:51:23 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: rktman

Indiana. Now we know what avenue they’ll use to take down Pence.


36 posted on 10/11/2017 9:22:51 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill
Not Baltic? 💸👹
37 posted on 10/11/2017 9:25:27 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

The politicians are getting paid off by the criminal gangs just like the old days of the roaring 20’s.


38 posted on 10/11/2017 12:10:16 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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