Chicago murder rate far worse since strict gun control

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By Jessica Chasmar
February 4, 2013


Chicago’s murder rate is far worse now than it was during the city’s most notorious crime era, Al Capone’s “gangland,” when gun-control laws hardly existed, ABC reports.

Leading up to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, there were 26 killings in January 1929. Yet, 42 people were killed in Chicago last month, catching the attention of Chicagoans, the White House and politicians nationwide.

If the current murder rate continues, February 2013 will far exceed February 1929, when there were 26 killings, including the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

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[Cowman]

Are you seriously fucking comparing 1920's Chicago to Modern Chicago, ignoring the huge steady rise of homicide violence in the 70's, 80's and 90's up until the 1990's?

The homicide rate is lower than it was in the 90's, and is not that much higher than it was in the late 20's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago#Homicides_in_Chicago_by_year
1928: 399[6]
1965: 395[7]
1974: 970[8]
1990: 851[9]
1991: 927[10]
1992: 943[10]
1993: 855[10]
1994: 931[10]
1995: 828[10]
1996: 796[10]
1997: 761[10]
1998: 704[10]
1999: 643[10]
2000: 633[10]
2001: 667[10]
2002: 656[10]
2003: 601[10]
2004: 453[10]
2005: 451[10]
2006: 471[10]
2007: 448[10]
2008: 513[10]
2009: 459[10]
2010: 436[10]
2011: 435[10]
2012: 506[11]

Next dumb thread please.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - take the guns away from the blacks an' dey won't be able to hold up the local 7/11 store for dey's crack money...

Frederick Douglass Society President: ‘Direct Correlation Between Gun Control and Black People Control’
February 22, 2013 – Gun control dates back to laws before and after the Civil War that prohibited or restricted African Americans from owning firearms, a group of black leaders said Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

“History is rife with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control,” Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, said at the event. Swimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the government. “The first gun laws were put into place to register black folks, to make sure that they would know who we were – that we could not defend ourselves,” Swimp said. “I think if you look right after the Emancipation Proclamation--what was going on down in the southern states, it’s very clear that the Dixiecrats wanted to disarm black people to keep us from defending ourselves against the Klansman, who were murdering white and black Republicans to control the ballot box,” Swimp said. “So I think history is rife with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control.”

The gun control laws that banned or put restrictions on African Americans from owning firearms are documented on a timeline from 1640 to 1995 by the National Rifle Association’s Institute of Legislative Action and can be found here. Ken “The Hutch” Hutcherson, former linebacker with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and pastor of the Antioch Bible Church, told CNSNews.com “gun control is about controlling people.”

CNSNews.com asked: From what was said today, it seems in fact that gun control hurts the African American community. “It absolutely does, there’s no doubt about it,” Hutcherson said. “It began that way with history. You see why there was so much gun control earlier in life--in American life--because it controlled African Americans. “Gun control is about controlling people,” he said. “We need to understand that those who need to be trained, who need to be armed is the African American community, and I don’t understand why any African American that is there in Congress right now would have the slightest thought about taking guns away from African Americans. We need them.”

Speakers at the event spoke out in defense of the Second Amendment and its guarantee that American citizens have the right to own and bear arms and that the government should not infringe on that right, including Ken Blackwell, chairman of the board for the Center of for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and board member of the National Rifle Association. “That right to protect one’s life and liberty is a God-given right,” Blackwell said in a statement. “It is a gift from God, not a grant from government.” Star Parker, founder and president of CURE, said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.”

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Star Parker: Blacks Who Back Gun Control Need to Study History of Slavery and Jim Crow
February 22, 2013 – At a Friday event billed as a Black History Month press conference, Star Parker said African Americans in Congress who support gun control efforts by President Barack Obama and his administration should consider the history of blacks in this country and people around the globe who were oppressed, including being banned from owning firearms.

CNSNews.com asked Parker, who is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE): “There are a lot of African Americans and people of color in Congress who are backing Obama’s plan for gun control. What would you say to them because today [at this event] it was revealed that there is a direct effect on the African American community with this gun control?”

Parker said: “Well, I'd say they need to revisit their history – black history, black slave history, black Jim Crow history -- and they should visit the histories of other tyrant nations where we had people like Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Every single time there is someone who wants to take away all other rights of the people, the first right they take away is your right to bear arms.” “I believe that the the Congressional Black community, or the Congressional Black Caucus is absolutely out of step with black America today on this issue,” Parker said.

Speakers at the event in Washington, D.C., defended the Second Amendment and its guarantee that American citizens have the right to own and bear firearms and that the government should not infringe on that right, including Ken Blackwell, chairman of the board of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and a board member of the National Rifle Association. “That right to protect one’s life and liberty is a God-given right,” Blackwell said in a statement. “It is a gift from God, not a grant from government.”

Parker said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.” The gun control laws that banned or put restrictions on African Americans from owning firearms in the United States are documented on a timeline from 1640 to 1995 by the National Rifle Association’s Institute of Legislative Action and can be found here.

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