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- Was the gun a legal gun or a gun used by a criminal?????????
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- It is unfortunate these communities do not elect city council leaders who will stop blindly following Chicago mayors who are pomp than actual doing. The new Superintendent of Police is like the new Mayor, not effective. They could stop it if they wanted, maybe by next election. Crime has already spread through the city and robberies and gun shot victims are at highest rates since the early 1990s. Yet they twist the facts. Where are the good journalists who will demand answers from the likes of Rahm Emanuel when they know he is lying?
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- Your choice of Chicago to highlight "gun violence" (more notable than other forms of violence, I suppose) is heavy with irony. Chicago has had some of the most restrictive gun laws in the US for 40 years. Every gun control scheme and restriction ever thought up has been put in force in Chicago, and the burgeoning murder rate only serves to highlight the FACT that in areas with the least private ownership of firearms, violent crime is highest.
All your reporting on Chicago omits the fact that the city is a poster for the failure of gun control. Let responsible private citizens be armed as they are enttitled to be, and watch the crime rate begin to lower, just as it has done all over the US when concealed carry of firearms is legal. Does McDonald v. Chicago, 561 US 3025 (2010) have any meaning to your reporting and editorial staff?
You guys are pathetic as "journalists." Your bias' are obvious, and your omissions of salient facts are only serving to present your audience with a distorted and untrue view of the events in question. - Reply to this comment
- Maybe the Mayor should try the Kennesaw Ga approach to the problem, seems to work for them.
All heads of households required to own a gun and ammunition.
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- Your head line is way off track... Chicago gun lays are way more restrictive than what Obama talked about ......
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- Guns can cross our porous borders as easily as drugs. Chicago already has harsh gun control laws. They didn't work because they're not enforced by the people who claim to be in favor of strict gun control.
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- Send more police into neighborhoods where 77% of murders take place by gangbangers. Bring our military home to fight our own wars. Would new gun laws stopped this mass shooting, no!
The FBI investigated mobsters in N.J. for over a year. They made their arrested yesterday. Their time could have been better spent investigating how these guns are getting into the inner-cities. The ATF doesn't seem to be doing anything. - Reply to this comment
- this city as well as new york should be a testing ground for the administrations new laws.it amazes me that the democrats had no problem with the a.t.f. sending over 2000 of these weapons to mexico to the hands of the drug cartels,but now that they have seen what one assault rifle can do they want to change our constitution.it is not the guns it is the people who are mentally disturbed and not members of the n.r.a.our government can send billions of dollars all over the globe but they have no money for mental health in our country.we better wake up and fast and demand a huge turn around as to they way they think and operate.
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- Makes me wonder what her sons father thinks about the issue? We've heard her point of view. What does the "Man of the House" have to offer? Or might that be THE problem here? Young men tend to grow up and emulate their male role models. Common Sense. Life is tough, always has been always will be. Law of the Jungle thing.
Take the paternal Male out of the equation, troubles can and will ensue. - Reply to this comment
- What we need are tough sentences for people committing gun crimes. It's the violent criminal, not the guna that are at the heart of the matter.
I live in Chicago and while at a police beat meeting they mentioned arresting a guy who fired a handgun from his back porch. He had a prior record of 36 arrests. What does it take to lock someone up like that, a gun tragedy ? - Reply to this comment
