Making Excuses

I get tired of hearing the city of Chicago blaming “lax gun laws in other states” for their major “gun crime” problem. The fact is EVERY big city could likewise blame guns coming from other states because, unless those guns were manufactured IN Chicago, they came in from other states. Not just the ones with what Chicago calls “lax gun laws. Making this claim excuses them from their own responsibility in the burgeoning “gun crime” rate in their city, which stems from not only their own lax enforcement of gun carry laws on their own books but their refusal to prosecute illegal gun carrying. They have recently confiscated 10,000 guns from criminals, and prosecuted them rarely. Usually waiving prosecution to gain convictions in other crimes. That’s just lax law enforcement, generally. There are other ways to get convictions other than “looking the other way” about illegal gun carrying. Their very tight gun laws also have an effect, by disarming the law-abiding, making it easy for the law-breakers to victimize them. If they allowed the law-abiding to be armed in self defense, they would get rid of a lot of illegal gun carriers when they killed them as they tried to victimize a “concealed carrier.” But they will never hear of that. They aren’t intelligent enough. (WBBM)