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Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Gun Control Hasn’t Failed Chicago
Breitbart ^ | 7/19/2019 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 07/22/2019 10:47:42 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot rejects claims gun control has failed her city and instead blames states without as many gun laws.

In an interview posted by New This News only days removed from a weekend in which 41 were shot, nine fatally, in Chicago, Lightfoot blamed Chicago’s gun crime on Indiana. She described Indiana’s laws as too lax, and suggested the laws allow criminals to travel out of state, acquire guns, then return and use those guns criminally on the streets of Chicago.

Lightfoot then suggested more federal gun control is the central solution for Chicago gun crime, that universal background checks must be enacted from the top down.

Mexico has top-down gun control. The country has universal background checks and one gun store, and CBS News reports the store is the “one place in all of Mexico where you can legally buy a gun.” Despite these things, Mexico witnesses 94 firearm homicides a day compared with the 30 to 33 firearm homicides daily in the U.S.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; chicago; guncontrol
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If Chicago's crime rates are so high because guns are so freely available in Indiana, why is the crime rate there so much lower?
1 posted on 07/22/2019 10:47:42 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It is an unmitigated disaster in Chicago. She is on crack.


2 posted on 07/22/2019 10:48:54 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I don’t think we are allowed to ask such questions.


3 posted on 07/22/2019 10:49:03 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yep. It’s not the guns. It’s the people.


4 posted on 07/22/2019 10:49:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: DarthVader

Lori Lightweight is a blithering idiot (and a liar).


5 posted on 07/22/2019 10:50:07 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Gun Control Hasn’t Failed Chicago>>>>>>>>>>>

Buhahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!

She is too licked up to know the difference.

The 2nd amendment has NEVER failed America. Doesn’t matter how you lick whatever pie.


6 posted on 07/22/2019 10:50:47 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In the DemocRats’ socialist utopia you aren’t.


7 posted on 07/22/2019 10:51:07 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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Stop making sense. It confuses Liberals.


8 posted on 07/22/2019 10:51:12 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Hate to break the news to you Lori, but it’s your people that have failed.


9 posted on 07/22/2019 10:51:52 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Democrats have failed Chicago.


10 posted on 07/22/2019 10:54:28 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ken in texas

Herding people into ghettos and providing their every need is what is failing them. Notice I said need, not desire. The government can only supply you with just enough to get by and imprisons you into a cycle of poverty without hope for a better life.


11 posted on 07/22/2019 10:55:54 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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Lori Lightfoot failed Chicago

Glad she pointed that out


12 posted on 07/22/2019 10:56:24 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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Gun Control Hasn’t Failed Chicago

Nah - not at all.

13 posted on 07/22/2019 10:58:09 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Holding up Me-heco as an example of gun control that works is not a real good idea.


14 posted on 07/22/2019 10:59:31 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Common sense for Chitown? U R wasting yer time n effort.


15 posted on 07/22/2019 10:59:36 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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My suggestion to Chicago is criminal control.


16 posted on 07/22/2019 11:00:21 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The level of gun control has little to no impact on crime. It is the number of available criminals a location has that dictates the level of crime.


17 posted on 07/22/2019 11:00:55 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Should be named Lightloafer.


18 posted on 07/22/2019 11:00:59 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Isn’t it already illegal to kill people?

You can’t fix stupid.


19 posted on 07/22/2019 11:01:23 AM PDT by Egon
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Pretty much standard fare from the progressive side of the house. First the policy, then the prediction, then the finger-pointing when it doesn't work out. It's always somebody else's fault.

Does anyone rational really think there's a steady stream of Chicago criminals cycling between Indiana and the hood with legally purchased guns? It isn't even a good story.

20 posted on 07/22/2019 11:02:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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