April 21st, 2008
On the past weekend in Chicago:
You don’t have too many guns in Chicago. You have too many criminals.
32 people shot, 6 killed, in violent Chicago weekend - CNN.com: “CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — An epidemic of gunfire rattled the city during the weekend, with at least 32 people shot and six killed.
Police Superintendent Jody Weis blamed an excess of guns and gangs for the rash of violence. ‘There are just too many weapons here,’ Weis said at a news conference Sunday. ‘Too many guns, too many gangs.’”
I once lived near a military base, where they had a LOT of guns. In all the time I lived there, they did not have 32 people shot in violence, nor 6 people killed violently. Over several years, shootings in that community that was chock full of guns did not add up to 32.
As so many have pointed out already, Illinois in general and Chicago in particular have some of the strongest gun control measures in place this side of DC.
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