Clearly, "gun control" in Chicago is more effective at preventing law-abiding citizens from owning guns than it is at preventing criminals from obtaining guns or using guns in violent crimes. When will gun control advocates realize it's time to try something new?
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Chicago Block Clubs Should Be Gun Clubs
The violence in Chicago has reached a point where the leaders of the city, those elected to protect the citizens, have outright admitted they have failed at controlling the number of violent crimes. They are thus advising the citizens to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
The ‘Real and Bloody’ Truth About Legally Owned Guns
Yesterday the New York Times published this article, which is a classic example of the feckless and blustering BS that is routinely passed on as valid arguments for gun control. The story opens with this paragraph: About 10,000 Americans died by handgun violence, according to federal statistics, in the four months that the Supreme...
The Supremes Rule Again For Gun Rights
The Supreme Court ruled that Chicago’s ban on handguns was unconstitutional by a vote of 5-4. The ruling reinforced both the 2nd amendment (right to bear arms) and the 14th amendment (due process clause). This is a great step forward for gun rights advocates but more will need to be done. Chicago’s mayor will...
Gun Debate Reloaded
That’s the front page headline of today’s Redeye, a free rag distributed by the Chicago Tribune. The two-page spread begins on page six with the following paragraphs (full story here: At the age of 15, Monica Sanders answered her phone to learn that her friend had been fatally shot in the stomach by another...
Crime Rates Versus Gun Ownership
Let’s hope The Supremes keep this in mind tomorrow as they begin hearing McDonald v. Chicago: The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed...
Chicago Ramping Up For A Gun Fight (or a fight for gun rights)
Chicago is ramping up the propaganda machine before the fight with gun-rights activists in McDonald v. Chicago. Chicago public radio this morning briefly mentioned that homicides in Chicago were down in 2009 partially due to taking more guns off the streets. Then on the bus ride home, going past the NBC building I saw...
Freedom And Gun Control; Mutually Exclusive Concepts
I live in Chicago; one of the most restrictive anti-gun cities in the nation and I am ever mindful of the fact that “gun control” is nothing more than a restriction on law-abiding citizens. Those who would use a firearm to break the law, demonstrate by that very fact that laws against gun use...
Mayors Against Illegal Guns or Mayors Against Gun Rights?
I briefly mentioned the lobbying group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) here. The group’s mission centers around enabling mayors to combat gun crime through the following stated principles: Punish – to the maximum extent of the law – criminals who possess, use, and traffic in illegal guns. Target and hold accountable irresponsible gun dealers...
Gun Violence Statistics And What They Tell Me
I was discussing the merits of owning a firearm with my better half, when she wondered out loud if the U.S. was #1 in gun crimes. So I looked it up and found something interesting. Now I don’t know the merits of this site, this was just a quick search, so sue me if...