Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The laboratory is Chicago [View all]jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)francis marion: Chicago policies produce 500 funerals per year.
That's a failed, dangerous policy, with or without 'the rest of the world.'
.. last year 2012 the year you quote, chicago's violent crime rate went down ten percent, & the violent crime rate includes murder, which would have increased violent crimes only by about 100 from the year before (~510 from ~400).
.. were chicago's guncontrol policies also the reason for the lower violent crime rate last year? or just the reason for chicago's spike in murder? Can't have it both ways, francis.
.. another thing, the mcdonald chicago ruling was in 2010, which lifted chicago's handgun ban, so GUNS ARE LEGAL IN CHICAGO NOW. Going on 3 years now. There are thousands & thousands of more legal guns & legal foids in chicago now. Doesn't that make your ridiculous argument even more ridiculous?
francis: So why not dump the murder producing policy?
Ignoring the stink in your own backyard? murder rates,2011:
PROGUN MISSOURI, kansas city.. 23.4
PROGUN GEORGIA (atlanta):......... 20.7
PROGUN new orleans murder rate:.. 57.6
PROGUNG Miami florida.............. 16.8
PROGUN St Louis............................ 35.3
............Chicago murder rate:.......... 15.9
francis: And yet we champion murder producing policies (gun control) as a 'solution' to gun crime.
This is far rightwing mentality you preach. FAR rightwing.
francis marion: We don't have to run experiments, such as the ongoing Chicago experiment, whereby masses of people are deprived of human rights- it's already been done- in Armenian, Russian, Jewish, Chinese, Cambodian communities. And right here, too- in the form of Black slavery.
And this is even sicker.