[TChris]

I guess they looked at Chicago and said, this is working great. Maybe we can get 500+ murders in every city if we ban and confiscate all guns from law abiding citizens.

Obama has a cabinet member who said his goal was to get US gasoline prices up to the same level as Europe's, so everything would be "fair".

Perhaps this administration's goals are the same with the murder rate. Not enough people in Chicago getting whacked to compete with London yet.

[moose07]

Your post caused an interest:

Crime rate	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Homicide total	184	184	175	160	169	167	139	190	159	146	171	190	189	204	182	168	162	156	148	136
Homicide rate	2.5	2.5	2.3	2.1	2.3	2.2	1.9	2.5	2.1	1.9	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.7	2.4	2.2	2.2	2.1	2.0	1.9

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