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Originally Posted by gonzo
What's the January up until today total homicides in Chicago?
Un-freaking-real.
486 last year.
85 already in 16'.
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If you look at the numbers, it's difficult to support the gun-laws as the reason for the murder rate, as comparing cities with the highest murder rate/100,000 citizens provides no correlation between more liberal cities and gun-laden ones. Chicago is number one, but crime and murders have dropped significantly in most places since the 80s and 90s. Obviously having a situation where you can easily buy a gun outside the city limits does little to prevent crime, apart from making it a little less likely for a guy without a felony record to go buy a gun in the city.
Here's something to consider though, most of the guns out there on the street, the vast majority of them, were bought at one point by these NRA-construct-"law abiding citizens". Through many different channels, they've gotten into the hands of criminals, but we have the people that bought them in the first place to thank for getting them in circulation...