Chicago TOUTS Gun Violence

The Chicago news media likes to make it seem like Chicago’s gun violence has continued to be a major problem since the passage of the “open carry law,” but it hasn’t. Aside from “cherry-picking” stories of gun violence and playing them up, statistics show that gun violence has gone down since the passage of that law. In many of the stories of gun violence, they include people who use their legal guns to DEFEND THEMSELVES from UNLICENSED guns. There will ALWAYS be gun violence from the unlicensed guns criminals and gang members (a repetition, there) buy from other criminals in the back alleys of the city. But no amount of laws made to keep guns from EVERYBODY will work to reduce gun violence; just the opposite, actually. That’s because there will always be criminals who sell guns to other criminals, no matter WHAT the laws say. Criminals, by DEFINITION, do not OBEY laws. And people who want to commit violence will either find illegal guns to buy or steal, or use other weapons. Until our politicians realize the simple fact that criminals do not obey laws and begin tailoring their laws to reflect that, those laws are going to fail. As of November, 2013, there were 377 murders (how many of those by gun, they don’t say), but 699 fewer gun victims since 2012. The LOWEST number since 1965, more than 50 years ago. (Fox News)