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To: bk1000
Chicago has 500+ firearms homicides per year... and a population of 2.7 million... for a rate of 18.5 per 100,000.

Alaska has 700,000 residents. Their rate of 4.22 means they have 29 firearm homicides per year for the entire state... and this is somehow worse than the 500+ per year in one town (Obama's hometown).

Further, with 12.8 million people in Illinois, Chicago's murders alone put the state at 3.91 per 100,000... so the rest of the entire state, 9 million people including East St Louis, the worst city in America, somehow does not put them high enough to make the top 10. Mmm hmmmm.

12 posted on 04/15/2013 11:03:44 AM PDT by Teacher317 (Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast)
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To: Teacher317

Chicago has 500+ MURDERS per year. Murders are a subset of homicides.

The Brady Bunch figures here probably include suicides (by far the largest source of firearm related deaths), and self-defense shootings as well as murders.


25 posted on 04/15/2013 11:16:50 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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