Local news reports
A teenaged boy and two men were shot and killed in three separate shootings Friday night and Saturday morning, according to authorities.
At least eight others were also shot overnight on the South and West Sides.
The gun-rights fanatics keep pretending they have nothing to do with this. But the fact is, the lax gun laws in places like Indiana and Ohio and even Illinois itself are allowing a continual flow of guns into Chicago's inner city. Those gang members and drug dealers certainly aren't manufacturing their own weapons.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Lax gun laws in Illinois? And you wonder why we accuse you of wanting to take our guns away.
ReplyDeleteAnswer us this--and I say us because many have asked this question in the past--why don't those guns in Indiana and Ohio stay home and cause mayhem there? Why do they have to travel to Chicago to express their evil natures?
First of all, there's plenty of gun misuse in Indiana and Ohio. Secondly, in a three or four state area, Chicago has the greatest concentration of all the other contributing factors which go into gun violence. Gun availability, thanks to Indiana and Ohio, and let's not forget Chuck's Gun Store, is only one of the factors, but it's the one we can mose readily address.
DeleteIn other words, you admit that your leftist policies are total failures at correcting the ills of a big city like Chicago, and in response, you want to try yet another such policy, just in case that one will work.
DeleteWe'll get right on not doing that, o.k.?
The more you cry about how it's OUR fault that your gun control paradises are violent, the more we tune you out.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Mike, but when it comes to your constant, silly attempts to make us responsible for the actions of criminals, our GiveaFuck is broken.
You never did give a fuck. That's one of the problems.
DeleteWasn't it less than a month ago that someone here was gloating that Chicago's "historically low" murder rate was (somehow) a blow to the pro-gun rights position?
ReplyDeleteNow when Chicagoans get back to doing what Chicagoans do (kill each other), that's somehow a stinging indictment of gun rights advocacy, too.
Oh--and the "lax gun laws in . . . even Illinois" is funny stuff. Maybe I am finally figuring out your sense of humor, Mikeb--caught that joke, anyway, and enjoyed a hearty guffaw.
Mike, fairly recently the Chicago government was crowing about their success in reducing the number of homicides in the city. You even mentioned it here. However, they attributedd their successes to efforts to control the gang crime issue, and by doing this call into question as to whether their claims of importation of guns from outside the city being the cause are accurate.
ReplyDeleteAt one point the chief was also quoted that the illegal gun problem is caused by the theft of guns inside the city. They have now used almost every reason at least once. Which one do we believe? It makes them seem to be guessing.
So far, we have a long period of data showing that strict gun laws not working, even before the laws in place were declared unconstitutional. Perhaps we should give them time to see if their new efforts in the area of gang control is more fruitful.