if the current murder rate holds in the city, 2008 may end with fewer than 500 homicides and that it is expected to be one of the least deadly years in the city in the last 40 years.
Three things.
1. 40 years ago was 13 years BEFORE the ban. So for a period of 25 years, it didn't do squat w/ Chicago being the murder capitol of the US more than once. That is, unless they want to argue that things would have been WORSE w/o the ban.
2. "fewer than 500 homicides"? True. One fewer.
3. "If the current murder rate holds"? From January through March, the rate had dropped 1.1%. Through April it shot up to an INCREASE of 8.9%. (So really a 10% increase in a month). May went up to 12.7% and June 12.8%. Yay! it only increased another .1%. That gives them the ability to say it's "remaining flat". But only in the comparison to the month before.
Gotta love Chicago.
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I'll CONSIDER giving up my guns when these liberal loonies can tell me how doing so will keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
But it would have to be an arguement that made sense, so I won't hold my breath.
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