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So with all the guns in Chicago, why is it so unsafe?They'd need gun laws that work.If gun laws stop crime why isn't Chicago the safest place in the country?If more guns are the solution, then why isn't Chicago the safest place on earth?We now have 4 years of concealed gun carrying in Chicago...there are still no gun stores or shooting ranges in the city, but law abiding Chicago citizens have taken it upon themselves to travel to the suburbs to get their permits......
And so far, not one arrest for illegal gun use by a concealed carry permit user....as John Lott pointed out on the Dan and Amy show a few minutes ago, you have people with clerical mistakes....walking into a gun free zone, forgetting about having a gun on them, or not having their card on them while carrying....but no illegal gun use...
40 defensive shootings....not one arrest for illegal use of the gun, they were all justified....
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Meanwhile, the Chicago judicial system keeps letting out violent gun criminals....criminals with prior arrests for illegal gun use...actual crimes where they used guns illegally.....getting out of jail and shooting people....
It isn't law abiding gun owners.... it is lack of criminal control.
Sadly, as the Joker told Two Face.....all according to the plan....
Almost nothing is known about dozens of concealed carry shootings in Illinois. Why?
The state police know nothing about the nearly 40 shootings by people with concealed carry licenses since Illinois became the last state to allow them four years ago.
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The Tribune combed through police files, court records and news reports to compile its own list. The analysis shows that:
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- Most of those shot by CCL holders have been armed robbers. Others include carjackers, a burglar with a crowbar, a robber with a gun to a clerk’s head, neighbors, an ex-girlfriend, a father-in-law, an unarmed teen stealing a Jeep, a passenger in a car during a road rage attack and a naked man acting “aggressively.”
- They were shot by homeowners, customers, security guards, store clerks, a Chicago police dispatcher, a Chicago fire lieutenant, a Chicago Park District worker, a tow-truck driver and the owner of a West Side cellphone store.
- The shootings took place at currency exchanges, phone stores, a driveway between two homes, parking lots, a party, a Loop McDonald’s, a West Side church, a block where children played and a downstate gun range.
Lt. Matthew Boerwinkle, a spokesman for the state police, believes problems with concealed carry holders are few and there is no need for more oversight or transparency.
“You rarely hear of an instance where a CCL holder is using their firearm in an unlawful manner,” he said. “They’re generally law-abiding citizens, and they’ve gone to great lengths to get to where they’re at to have a CCL. And they’ve taken training to get there. And most of them, they understand what the requirements are to use force to defend themselves.”
Why does NH have the lowest murder rate in the country despite it having very lax gun laws?
HINT : It ain't the gun laws that determine the murder rate
It's not the guns it's the socioeconomic and cultural variables that drive crime in Chicago