Good goin Chicago, every week it's more than just average murder, it's young girls butchered, young men hanged, taxi drivers roled over repeatedly by their own taxis, 2 men stoned to death on 22nd and Columbus...
Then there's the Chicago Murderers' Major League All-Stars: Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, Al Capone, el Rukns....
Wow, Chicago, this conservative is really impressed by King Richard II and his Socialist Utopia!
First of all the two children slashed to death by good ole Dad did not live in Chicago, the two slashed to death by good ole Mom the week before did not live in Chicago, Richard Speck did not live in Chicago just dropped in to murder a few girls on his way elsewhere, JWGacy did not live in Chicago. And Big Al was a New City import not even a native.
So you are giving us undue credit for murders committed elsewhere and having to go back forty years in one instance. There are plenty of actual Chicago based murderers to keep our standing.
Surely you will be comforted by the realization that none of those killings you referenced were done by guns.