Only strong federal laws will end widespread gun violence (barf alert)

Chicago S-T ^ | Devereaux Peters

[Bayan]

Violence in Chicago is 99% associated with gangs and drugs in the minority community. You want to stop it go after them. The police could actually do that but the politically correct Chicago government prevents them from doing so.

[NativeSon]

With a slathering of “don’t blame the killers & thugs, for killing & thuggin” gravy.

[NorthMountain]

live in Chicago, not “Chiraq.” Chicongo ...

Interesting map:

It's a much more "local" problem than the author is willing to admit.

And then there's this:

The demonicRAT government is letting people get away with murder. Literally.

QUIT VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS!!!

[HotHunt]

".... Instead of constantly trying to use my city as a scapegoat when violence occurs, we need to recognize that gun violence is a national issue and not just a local one....."

Trying to explain away the horrendous gun violence and the resulting record injuries and deaths in Chicago, to make it a national problem and not their local problem is pure fantasy.

I've lived all over the country in metropolitan cities to large towns to rural areas from the west coast to the east coast over the last 3 decades.

None of those "locales" had gun violence anywhere approaching the numbers they ring up in Chicago.

The gun violence in Chicago is because they ban guns and are run by the biggest loser democRATS around.

Place the blame where it's due. In Chicago. And stop trying to blame the rest of the country for your violent metropolitan culture.

[gogeo]

A steaming pile.

[gogeo]

Well, since you bring it up, Devereaux (if that’s your real name), why doesn’t Austin experience the same carnage Chiraq does if it’s a national problem?

...or Montana? The gun ownership rate is much higher there than in Chicago.

[Red in Blue PA]

“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”

- Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1968 GCA into law.