Posted on 10/05/2015 1:29:19 PM PDT by beaversmom
Any time an article is written about the overlap of gun violence and politics, there is one response that is guaranteed to be offered: "What about Chicago?" Say that mass shootings have occurred hundreds of times in the last few years and you're asked, "What about Chicago?" Talk about the politics of background check legislation and someone will respond, "What about Chicago?"
Well, let's try to answer that.
Chicago has become a go-to shorthand for opponents of gun-control legislation. That's in part thanks to President Obama calling Chicago home, the fact that the city's mayor is Obama ally Rahm Emanuel and the city's laws aimed at curtailing gun violence -- combined with what often feels like an endless number of shootings. Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report has made the "CHICAGOLAND" sobriquet a staple of his coverage of the city. Breitbart seized on September data for a story about how the city's September was its "deadliest in over a decade." Here's a real-time Twitter search for "Chicago" and "gun control." It's guaranteed to be well-stocked at any given moment.
There's no question that Chicago sees more gun violence than the rest of the country. Using data on mass shootings -- defined here as incidents in which four or more people were shot -- we can compare Chicago to the rest of the country. Since 2013, Chicago has seen 207 people wounded in mass shooting incidents and 32 killed -- far more than any other city. But without robust data on cities of smaller sizes than Chicago, it’s very difficult to know how exceptional Chicago’s per-capita mass shootings are.
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Like your tagline. :)
0bama LIVES there-supposedly. You’d think he’d say something to ‘his crew’ there.
Great article! I’m sure this makes everyone shot to death and their surviving friends and relatives feel much better about themselves and the pride they have in their “gun-free” hometown!
chicago is enough....... to look elsewhere is deflection from the problem
Obama organized black on black death for a living
I’m just not going...
WP misses the point.
Using Chicago as an example, because it embarrasses zero and Rahm. What are the crime investigations telling us, not just about mass shootings, but also the more numerous ones and twos?
Are the weapons obtained legally?
If so, then we have a behavior problem not a gun access problem.
What can we do about the behavior?
WaPo: Defending the indefensible for more than a century.
That picture is so disturbing on a number of levels. From the ballerina hunkering over as he shovels that stuff into his pie-hole, to the two kids behind him acting as ‘security’. Disgusting.
Funnel cakes are dry as a chip. He must have just washed
it down with spit; but even then, YUK! Not enough
spit in the whole town to wash that stuff down! Guess
they’ll have to stop at the coke tent and get him a
drink.
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