‘Won’t you please come to Chicago … and get shot.’
29th October 2012
Chicago experienced more waves of violence on Saturday night and Sunday morning as one person was killed and six more were wounded by gunfire in the city with perhaps the nation’s most draconian gun-control laws.
Funny how the places with the strictest ‘gun control’ laws always seem to have the worst record on gun violence. One might almost think that there was a connection between the two.
October 29th, 2012 at 13:54
There is a connection between the two, for people who can reason straight.
Strict gun control laws are a reaction to gun violence. The violence comes first, followed by the laws.
That they don’t work is a debatable point. Certainly they don’t prevent violence, as anyone can see; on the other hand, we doesn’t know how bad the violence would be if they weren’t in place. (I suppose one could simply nullify the laws and see what happens; I suspect that’s a tad too Draconion even for Republicans. I could be wrong, however, as the only interest they seem to have in po’ black folks gettin’ shot is in how useful it is to belabor Democrats with.)
The ‘let everyone carry’ mentatlity seems to think that that would solve the problem. It doubt it, for obvious reasons: there are no shortage of folks carrying notwithstanding the laws, and it hasn’t seem to deter the shooters.