Criminologists say there's no clear reason Chicago's murder rate is so much higher, but believe there may be more guns here.
Hmmm, maybe the murder rate has something to do w/ this:
Since the beginning of the year through March, 70 percent of the murder victims had prior arrests records and 97 percent of the offenders had prior arrest records.
So a 97% recidivism rate yet most Daleycrats think the answer is to blame everyone else for Chicago's crime problem. If the easy availability of guns is the problem, you would expect to see higher crime and murder rates in the rest of the state where legal ownership is common. Yet Chicago accounts for 60% of the murders and 35% of overall crime but only has less than 1/4 of the state population.
One interesting bit of mixed-PSH came out though:
And FBI Special Agent in Charge Bill Monroe says despite talk to the contrary, assault rifles aren't the criminals' weapon of choice.
Yet:
"Most of our murders that are occurring out there are not occurring with assault rifles. It's the smaller handguns that are causing a lot of these murders," Monroe said.
No, the handguns are 'causing' them, that would be the criminals.
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I don't know of any gun shops in Chicago. Why don't they just throw up a "wall" around it and then search every person and vehicle entering? Then all they would have to do is search every building and person in town and viola', no more crime. And then, of course, everybody else could require a PERMIT before anyone could LEAVE Chicago!
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