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Let's stay in Chicago shall we? I'm talking about intentional deaths caused by criminals with guns. Do you not understand that a lot of those guns there are sold via the black market? Within the city for example? You want to fudge the facts, all the meanwhile ignoring that gun control is a failure. We can have all the background checks we want to, but those criminals will still be out there with illegal guns lying in wait to commit murder or the like.
The "black market" in Chicago is that the gun industry set up gun stores in suburbs like Cicero with the intent to sell guns to Chicagoans, no questions asked. The intent was to sabotage the gun laws in Chicago from their inactment.
But still, Chicago only owned 435 "gun related" deaths (you didn't specify murders) of the 30,000 that occurred in the country last year. So we have about 1-2% of the countries population and about 1-2% of the country's gun deaths. More or less.
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Actually, the whole Independence movement was based on freedom and prosperity apart from the British Monarchical regime. And why the hell are we talking about Canadians? We are Americans, lets stick to that shall we? Or will you continue trying to move the goalposts?
The whole independence movement, which most people AT THE TIME were against, was because the rich assholes didn't want to pay their fair share of the taxes that were required by the French and Indian War. (Also known as the Seven Years War in Europe). Despite the fact they helped instigate it in North America by seizing Indian Lands and attacking French territory.
And that's kind of the problem. the wealthy live large on the labor of others, and when it comes to paying to support a system that benefits them, they scream about it.
I guess we've been kind of retarded as a country in this regard from the beginning.
Incidently, the argument was that the ELECTED Parliment in London was the problem, not the "Monarch", who held no real power at that point.