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Gun Rights Leader: 470 Murders in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel Has Some Blood on His Hands(IL)
By: Christopher Goins
4 December, 2012
(CNSNews.com) A gun-rights group says that Chicagos Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel bears some responsibility for the murder rate in the Windy City, which now totals 470 homicides this year, because of the strict gun-control laws there.
Rahm Emanuel has some blood on his hands, said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in a statement. He and the city council have done everything possible to prevent law-abiding Chicago residents from exercising their restored Second Amendment rights in the two years since the Supreme Courts landmark McDonald ruling.
In June 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against a handgun ban in the city of Chicago in McDonald v. Chicago.
But just four days after the Supreme Court decision, the Chicago City Council adopted the Responsible Gun Owners Ordinance which, among other restrictions, requires prospective gun owners to take a firearm safety course at a gun range in order to obtain a permit to own a gun in a home. At the same time, the city councils decision placed a virtual ban on gun ranges in the city.
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