Why are U.S. cities the epicenter of gun violence?

[Timmy]

[QUOT


Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . Y .

Bullshit Moon Bat. Youare confused.

For instance, the state of North Dakota as the same number of residences as Washington DC, 1000 times more legal gun ownership and 1/50th the gun crime. If gun availability was the cause of gun crime then states like Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah etc would be the gun crime capitols of the US but they are not. The places where most of the gun crime in this country takes place are the Democrat controlled inner city shitholes with strict gun control laws.

So dishonest . Typical of gun nuts . ND is a giant empty state . DC is a city . It’s literally impossible to shoot your neighbor because they are so far away from you!!!

I challenge you to compare similar suited states .

Example . Massachusetts vs Arizona . Similar population and both have a major city . Opposite sides of gun control .

I did... Houston and Chicago, and Houston has more people carrying guns, gun stores and gun ranges and they are in a state next to the narco state of Mexico...


Chicago.... no gun stores, no shooting ranges in city limits. Extreme gun control. 47,000 Concealed carry permits in cook county.....

How Many People Have Concealed Carry Licenses in Your County?

Houston... gun stores on every corner, shooting ranges too, and more concealed carry permits than Chicago. 139,563 licensed permits in the county that contains Houston.

Licensed to Carry: Handguns in Texas

Houston is on the border with the narco state of Mexico....

Gun murder in 2016...

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

Now I know why you picked 2016 and Chicago !! It’s typical dishonest gun nut stat manipulation .

Chicago had more murders than LA and NYC combined !

And NYC had a little higher than your Houston , despite being what ? 3x the population. Of Houston ?

Busted !
Chicago's 762 homicides in 2016 is more than New York and Los Angeles combined - NY Daily News

 

[Timmy]

New York City logged 334 homicides in 2016, according to NYPD data. LAPD data shows that there were 294 homicides in Los Angeles in 2016.

LA = 4 mill
NYC = 8.5 mill.

You just got served son.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Oh bullshit Timmy.
Provide some data to back that up or STFU.

You first !

But hey. Any time you want to compare SIMILAR situated gun nut vs gun control states. I am in.

I already did dumbass.

So, do we have a gang problem or a gun problem? Data collected by the National Gang Center, the government agency responsible for cataloging gang violence, makes clear that it’s the latter. There were 1,824 gang-related killings in 2011. This total includes deaths by means other than a gun. The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds this number to be even lower, identifying a little more than 1,000 gang-related homicides in 2008. In comparison, there were 11,101 homicides and 19,766 suicides committed with firearms in 2011.

Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem? | HuffPost

Guns dont kill people.

Why are you ignoring the stats?

Our homicide rate is 4-5x that of countries with strong gun control.

As I've already stated.
I dont care about other countries. Just those who commit crimes in mine.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . You can spin that it’s all gang violence . It is not . A big chunk is domestic violence . Every week th local news has a story of some freak barricaded in his house and swat has to move in .

And as far as gang shootings go. At least there’s a motive . They are not random shootings , which is what really freaks out people the most .

Oh bullshit Timmy.
Provide some data to back that up or STFU.

You first !

But hey. Any time you want to compare SIMILAR situated gun nut vs gun control states. I am in.

I already did dumbass.

So, do we have a gang problem or a gun problem? Data collected by the National Gang Center, the government agency responsible for cataloging gang violence, makes clear that it’s the latter. There were 1,824 gang-related killings in 2011. This total includes deaths by means other than a gun. The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds this number to be even lower, identifying a little more than 1,000 gang-related homicides in 2008. In comparison, there were 11,101 homicides and 19,766 suicides committed with firearms in 2011.

Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem? | HuffPost

Guns dont kill people.

So you believe inanimate objects kill people?

 

[Pilot1]

Poor desperate, minorities with no hope, and no vision for the future fueled by Leftist Democrats who want to keep them where they are for votes.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Oh bullshit Timmy.
Provide some data to back that up or STFU.

You first !

But hey. Any time you want to compare SIMILAR situated gun nut vs gun control states. I am in.

I already did dumbass.

So, do we have a gang problem or a gun problem? Data collected by the National Gang Center, the government agency responsible for cataloging gang violence, makes clear that it’s the latter. There were 1,824 gang-related killings in 2011. This total includes deaths by means other than a gun. The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds this number to be even lower, identifying a little more than 1,000 gang-related homicides in 2008. In comparison, there were 11,101 homicides and 19,766 suicides committed with firearms in 2011.

Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem? | HuffPost

Guns dont kill people.

They don’t !? Then why bother having one ?

So guns roam the streets killing people?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Gun violence in America is mostly caused by inner city minorities, illegals, gang bangers and druggies.

Not all the gun crime but the vast majority.

Mostly in Democrat controlled big city shitholes.

76 shot in Chicago just last weekend.

Liberals are assholes. They want to take guns away from the people that don't commit the crimes while ignoring the fact that the ones that do commit the crimes don't adhere to gun control laws.

Passing a law to ban AR-15s will prevent the White law abiding man in rural Georgia from having the weapon but will do nothing to stop the 76 shootings in Chicago.

This begs the issue of the Liberals not really caring about gun crime and having a real agenda to curtail the right to keep and bear arms because it is a threat to authoritative socialistic government control, which they love so much.

Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . You can spin that it’s all gang violence . It is not . A big chunk is domestic violence . Every week th local news has a story of some freak barricaded in his house and swat has to move in .

And as far as gang shootings go. At least there’s a motive . They are not random shootings , which is what really freaks out people the most .

Oh bullshit Timmy.
Provide some data to back that up or STFU.

You first !

But hey. Any time you want to compare SIMILAR situated gun nut vs gun control states. I am in.

I already did dumbass.

Here you go .

9 of top 10 gun violent States are deep red gun nuts . Least violence is a sea of Blue .

States with the most (and least) gun violence. See where your state stacks up.

Not where I live.

 

[Timmy]

Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . You can spin that it’s all gang violence . It is not . A big chunk is domestic violence . Every week th local news has a story of some freak barricaded in his house and swat has to move in .

And as far as gang shootings go. At least there’s a motive . They are not random shootings , which is what really freaks out people the most .

Oh bullshit Timmy.
Provide some data to back that up or STFU.

You first !

But hey. Any time you want to compare SIMILAR situated gun nut vs gun control states. I am in.

I already did dumbass.

Here you go .

9 of top 10 gun violent States are deep red gun nuts . Least violence is a sea of Blue .

States with the most (and least) gun violence. See where your state stacks up.

Not where I live.

What state?

 

[keepitreal]

Because when we humanoids are packed in close spaces we tend to piss each other off.

I tend to agree with that...along with the anonymity a city inherently provides...but doesn't that make cities the problem and not guns?

There will always be increased violence in cities regardless of guns. Considering the FACT that gun crime has been dropping since the 80s, I don't see why we even need to have conversations about gun violence that imply it's some horrible epidemic.

We panic if 30 people die of the measles. In 2017, 15,000 died from guns (omitting suicides)..
That's why we imply it's a horrible epidemic.

In 2017, 15,000 died from guns (omitting suicides)..

Yeah...I don't think so

 

[Timmy]

You first !

But hey. Any time you want to compare SIMILAR situated gun nut vs gun control states. I am in.

I already did dumbass.

So, do we have a gang problem or a gun problem? Data collected by the National Gang Center, the government agency responsible for cataloging gang violence, makes clear that it’s the latter. There were 1,824 gang-related killings in 2011. This total includes deaths by means other than a gun. The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds this number to be even lower, identifying a little more than 1,000 gang-related homicides in 2008. In comparison, there were 11,101 homicides and 19,766 suicides committed with firearms in 2011.

Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem? | HuffPost

Guns dont kill people.

They don’t !? Then why bother having one ?

So guns roam the streets killing people?

Do guns roam the streets protecting people ? You can’t have it both ways if you are gonna go with the “guns don’t kill people “ logic .

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I already did dumbass.

So, do we have a gang problem or a gun problem? Data collected by the National Gang Center, the government agency responsible for cataloging gang violence, makes clear that it’s the latter. There were 1,824 gang-related killings in 2011. This total includes deaths by means other than a gun. The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds this number to be even lower, identifying a little more than 1,000 gang-related homicides in 2008. In comparison, there were 11,101 homicides and 19,766 suicides committed with firearms in 2011.

Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem? | HuffPost

Guns dont kill people.

They don’t !? Then why bother having one ?

So guns roam the streets killing people?

Do guns roam the streets protecting people ? You can’t have it both ways if you are gonna go with the “guns don’t kill people “ logic .

Law abiding CHL licensed gun owners rarely kill someone.

 

[2aguy]

[QUOT


Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . Y .

Bullshit Moon Bat. Youare confused.

For instance, the state of North Dakota as the same number of residences as Washington DC, 1000 times more legal gun ownership and 1/50th the gun crime. If gun availability was the cause of gun crime then states like Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah etc would be the gun crime capitols of the US but they are not. The places where most of the gun crime in this country takes place are the Democrat controlled inner city shitholes with strict gun control laws.

So dishonest . Typical of gun nuts . ND is a giant empty state . DC is a city . It’s literally impossible to shoot your neighbor because they are so far away from you!!!

I challenge you to compare similar suited states .

Example . Massachusetts vs Arizona . Similar population and both have a major city . Opposite sides of gun control .

I did... Houston and Chicago, and Houston has more people carrying guns, gun stores and gun ranges and they are in a state next to the narco state of Mexico...


Chicago.... no gun stores, no shooting ranges in city limits. Extreme gun control. 47,000 Concealed carry permits in cook county.....

How Many People Have Concealed Carry Licenses in Your County?

Houston... gun stores on every corner, shooting ranges too, and more concealed carry permits than Chicago. 139,563 licensed permits in the county that contains Houston.

Licensed to Carry: Handguns in Texas

Houston is on the border with the narco state of Mexico....

Gun murder in 2016...

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

Now I know why you picked 2016 and Chicago !! It’s typical dishonest gun nut stat manipulation .

Chicago had more murders than LA and NYC combined !

And NYC had a little higher than your Houston , despite being what ? 3x the population. Of Houston ?

Busted !
Chicago's 762 homicides in 2016 is more than New York and Los Angeles combined - NY Daily News

Moron.... that doesn't bust me... it shows you are an idiot.... it shows that gun control isn't the problem... since, moron, New York, and L.A. have the exact same gun control laws as Chicago...and Chicago has a higher gun murder rate than both of them...

Gun control isn't the issue...

Then.... you compare

Houston... in a state with loose gun control. Gun stores on every corner, gun ranges to. 139,563 gun permits in the county holding Houston , in a state next to the Narco state of Mexico.

Chicago.... no gun stores in city limits. No gun ranges. Extreme gun control laws. Not next to a Narco State, and 42, 000 gun permits....

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

 

[Timmy]

So, do we have a gang problem or a gun problem? Data collected by the National Gang Center, the government agency responsible for cataloging gang violence, makes clear that it’s the latter. There were 1,824 gang-related killings in 2011. This total includes deaths by means other than a gun. The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds this number to be even lower, identifying a little more than 1,000 gang-related homicides in 2008. In comparison, there were 11,101 homicides and 19,766 suicides committed with firearms in 2011.

Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem? | HuffPost

Guns dont kill people.

They don’t !? Then why bother having one ?

So guns roam the streets killing people?

Do guns roam the streets protecting people ? You can’t have it both ways if you are gonna go with the “guns don’t kill people “ logic .

Law abiding CHL licensed gun owners rarely kill someone.

Oh that’s not true ! Lots of people kill with legal guns .

Hey. I’m cool wh gun ownership and conceal carry. I just want vetting .

 

[2aguy]

New York City logged 334 homicides in 2016, according to NYPD data. LAPD data shows that there were 294 homicides in Los Angeles in 2016.

LA = 4 mill
NYC = 8.5 mill.

You just got served son.

Moron.... I use the comparison of cities all the time... you numb nuts... here is what I use... Notice that Baltimore has a higher gun murder rate than NYC, with a tiny population, and the same extreme gun control...

Nothing you point out supports your belief that more guns make for more gun crime you moron....

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million
L.A................3.9 million
N.Y................8.5 million
Houston........2.3 million
Baltimore......620,961
Detroit...........672,795
Milwaukee.....595,647

St. Louis.......311,404

Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765
L.A.......... .....293
N.Y................335
Houston .......301
Baltimore......318
Detroit...........303
Milwaukee.... 142

St. Louis..........188

 

[2aguy]

[QUOT


Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . Y .

Bullshit Moon Bat. Youare confused.

For instance, the state of North Dakota as the same number of residences as Washington DC, 1000 times more legal gun ownership and 1/50th the gun crime. If gun availability was the cause of gun crime then states like Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah etc would be the gun crime capitols of the US but they are not. The places where most of the gun crime in this country takes place are the Democrat controlled inner city shitholes with strict gun control laws.

So dishonest . Typical of gun nuts . ND is a giant empty state . DC is a city . It’s literally impossible to shoot your neighbor because they are so far away from you!!!

I challenge you to compare similar suited states .

Example . Massachusetts vs Arizona . Similar population and both have a major city . Opposite sides of gun control .

I did... Houston and Chicago, and Houston has more people carrying guns, gun stores and gun ranges and they are in a state next to the narco state of Mexico...


Chicago.... no gun stores, no shooting ranges in city limits. Extreme gun control. 47,000 Concealed carry permits in cook county.....

How Many People Have Concealed Carry Licenses in Your County?

Houston... gun stores on every corner, shooting ranges too, and more concealed carry permits than Chicago. 139,563 licensed permits in the county that contains Houston.

Licensed to Carry: Handguns in Texas

Houston is on the border with the narco state of Mexico....

Gun murder in 2016...

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

Now I know why you picked 2016 and Chicago !! It’s typical dishonest gun nut stat manipulation .

Chicago had more murders than LA and NYC combined !

And NYC had a little higher than your Houston , despite being what ? 3x the population. Of Houston ?

Busted !
Chicago's 762 homicides in 2016 is more than New York and Los Angeles combined - NY Daily News

I picked Chicago and Houston because they are comparable with populations, and have the exact opposite gun control experiences.... you mope...

 

[Timmy]

[QUOT


Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . Y .

Bullshit Moon Bat. Youare confused.

For instance, the state of North Dakota as the same number of residences as Washington DC, 1000 times more legal gun ownership and 1/50th the gun crime. If gun availability was the cause of gun crime then states like Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah etc would be the gun crime capitols of the US but they are not. The places where most of the gun crime in this country takes place are the Democrat controlled inner city shitholes with strict gun control laws.

So dishonest . Typical of gun nuts . ND is a giant empty state . DC is a city . It’s literally impossible to shoot your neighbor because they are so far away from you!!!

I challenge you to compare similar suited states .

Example . Massachusetts vs Arizona . Similar population and both have a major city . Opposite sides of gun control .

I did... Houston and Chicago, and Houston has more people carrying guns, gun stores and gun ranges and they are in a state next to the narco state of Mexico...


Chicago.... no gun stores, no shooting ranges in city limits. Extreme gun control. 47,000 Concealed carry permits in cook county.....

How Many People Have Concealed Carry Licenses in Your County?

Houston... gun stores on every corner, shooting ranges too, and more concealed carry permits than Chicago. 139,563 licensed permits in the county that contains Houston.

Licensed to Carry: Handguns in Texas

Houston is on the border with the narco state of Mexico....

Gun murder in 2016...

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

Now I know why you picked 2016 and Chicago !! It’s typical dishonest gun nut stat manipulation .

Chicago had more murders than LA and NYC combined !

And NYC had a little higher than your Houston , despite being what ? 3x the population. Of Houston ?

Busted !
Chicago's 762 homicides in 2016 is more than New York and Los Angeles combined - NY Daily News

Moron.... that doesn't bust me... it shows you are an idiot.... it shows that gun control isn't the problem... since, moron, New York, and L.A. have the exact same gun control laws as Chicago...and Chicago has a higher gun murder rate than both of them...

Gun control isn't the issue...

Then.... you compare

Houston... in a state with loose gun control. Gun stores on every corner, gun ranges to. 139,563 gun permits in the county holding Houston , in a state next to the Narco state of Mexico.

Chicago.... no gun stores in city limits. No gun ranges. Extreme gun control laws. Not next to a Narco State, and 42, 000 gun permits....

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

You lose 2A. Stop embarrassing yourself .

Chicago is an outlier . New York and Cali have tough gun laws . NYC and LA have much better murder stats than Houston when you compare per capita . Waaaaay better .

Proves that gun nut states are not safer .

 

[Dragonlady]

I have argued this for years, that guns don't people, cities kill people...and the concept bubbled to the surface once again in an article from liberal leaning Vox...that 60% of gun homicides occur in just 50 major US cities.

According to Pew Research, 58% of rural households have legal guns (and 75% of those more than one) while urban household gun ownership is at 29% (mostly consisting of just one gun per household).

Here are your links:
A gun debate compromise: let cities and rural areas pass different laws ,
Rural and urban gun owners have different experiences, views on gun policy

So, here's the two part question...if gun control is the answer...

1] Why do cities, despite a deficit of legal gun owners, represent far and away the highest threat of gun violence to their citizenry. (And, for the record, the answer it isn't poverty...both urban and rural citizens face equal poverty levels.)

2] Why are rural areas where guns are prevalent significantly safer from gun violence?

Keep in mind, this is a correlation, not a conclusion...if we are going to reduce gun violence, we must understand it's root causes. Obviously more legal guns does not equate to more gun violence, and less guns with more regulation does not equate to less gun violence...so what forces are actually at work here?

1.) illegal gun ownership also known as the for political gain injection of illegal weapons into Leftist doctrine of race and class warfare in practice on many of those streets.

2.) Responsible, legal gun ownership backed by hunter safety courses, etc., a take no shit attitude for pride in home and community. Self policing, responsible land ownership . . . on an on.

Something that is rarely mentioned is that even though there are more gun murders in cities, there are more gun suicides in rural areas. A lot more. And suicides don’t get the kind of publicity that murders do.

For every person murdered by a gun in the US, two die by gun suicide. The rates of gun suicide in rural areas is a lot higher than in urban centres. In some rural areas, the suicide rate is 66% higher than urban areas of the state.

There really isn’t much difference between the level of gun violence in the rural and urban areas, but rural suicides don’t get the same level of publicity or scrutiny as murders.

Not only are murder rates higher in the US than countries with gun control, so are suicide rates. Now it can be reasonably argued that people in other first world countries have better access to mental health treatment than Americans which is certainly a factor, but the easy availability of guns is also a driving factor.

CDC: Rural Americans More Likely to Die by Suicide

 

[Timmy]

[QUOT


Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . Y .

Bullshit Moon Bat. Youare confused.

For instance, the state of North Dakota as the same number of residences as Washington DC, 1000 times more legal gun ownership and 1/50th the gun crime. If gun availability was the cause of gun crime then states like Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah etc would be the gun crime capitols of the US but they are not. The places where most of the gun crime in this country takes place are the Democrat controlled inner city shitholes with strict gun control laws.

So dishonest . Typical of gun nuts . ND is a giant empty state . DC is a city . It’s literally impossible to shoot your neighbor because they are so far away from you!!!

I challenge you to compare similar suited states .

Example . Massachusetts vs Arizona . Similar population and both have a major city . Opposite sides of gun control .

I did... Houston and Chicago, and Houston has more people carrying guns, gun stores and gun ranges and they are in a state next to the narco state of Mexico...


Chicago.... no gun stores, no shooting ranges in city limits. Extreme gun control. 47,000 Concealed carry permits in cook county.....

How Many People Have Concealed Carry Licenses in Your County?

Houston... gun stores on every corner, shooting ranges too, and more concealed carry permits than Chicago. 139,563 licensed permits in the county that contains Houston.

Licensed to Carry: Handguns in Texas

Houston is on the border with the narco state of Mexico....

Gun murder in 2016...

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

Now I know why you picked 2016 and Chicago !! It’s typical dishonest gun nut stat manipulation .

Chicago had more murders than LA and NYC combined !

And NYC had a little higher than your Houston , despite being what ? 3x the population. Of Houston ?

Busted !
Chicago's 762 homicides in 2016 is more than New York and Los Angeles combined - NY Daily News

I picked Chicago and Houston because they are comparable with populations, and have the exact opposite gun control experiences.... you mope...

Liar!!!!

It’s the mo of the gun nut misinformist . Can’t argue anything without the outlier of Chicago .

 

[2aguy]

I have argued this for years, that guns don't people, cities kill people...and the concept bubbled to the surface once again in an article from liberal leaning Vox...that 60% of gun homicides occur in just 50 major US cities.

According to Pew Research, 58% of rural households have legal guns (and 75% of those more than one) while urban household gun ownership is at 29% (mostly consisting of just one gun per household).

Here are your links:
A gun debate compromise: let cities and rural areas pass different laws ,
Rural and urban gun owners have different experiences, views on gun policy

So, here's the two part question...if gun control is the answer...

1] Why do cities, despite a deficit of legal gun owners, represent far and away the highest threat of gun violence to their citizenry. (And, for the record, the answer it isn't poverty...both urban and rural citizens face equal poverty levels.)

2] Why are rural areas where guns are prevalent significantly safer from gun violence?

Keep in mind, this is a correlation, not a conclusion...if we are going to reduce gun violence, we must understand it's root causes. Obviously more legal guns does not equate to more gun violence, and less guns with more regulation does not equate to less gun violence...so what forces are actually at work here?

Ask, and the internet answers.... just found this article 5 minutes ago...

Why is Chicago so filled with gun murder?

The Real Reasons for Chicago's Deadly Crime Wave

It is an accepted but lamented fact of life among police officers that in order to rise on the promotional ladder, one must endorse the political fashions currently in favor among the city’s politicians. And the higher one ascends on that ladder, the more convincingly one must do so. As a consequence, reflecting the governing principles of almost any city you can name, most police chiefs are liberals, or at least pretend to be with a passing level of feigned sincerity.

As a result of this, the upper levels of most police departments, most certainly those in large cities, become clogged with men and women who can recite leftist pieties as confidently as any MSNBC host, the better to curry favor with politicians whose sponsorship is essential to further promotion. All of these men and women believe themselves qualified to be the next police chief, but the one selected will have proved himself to be the most proficient panderer.

But this creates a problem within a police department, to wit, a division in the rank structure between those at or near the top who adopt the leftist nostrums of the politicians, and those at the bottom who must go out onto the streets each day and confront the very real problems engendered by those very same leftist nostrums.

There exists no more vivid example of this than the city of Chicago, where Hillary Clinton received 84 percent of the 2016 presidential vote, and where there hasn’t been a Republican mayor since 1931. Between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, 74 people were shot in the city,12 of them fatally. In one seven-hour span, from about midnight Saturday to about 7:00 a.m. Sunday, 41 people were shot, five of whom died.

These spasms of violence are sadly characteristic of Chicago, or at least parts of it. And equally as routine as the weekend violence are the Monday press conferences at which Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson put on their angry (or sad) faces and denounce the perpetrators and talk about how the mayhem is “unacceptable.” “What happened this weekend did not happen in every neighborhood in Chicago,” said Emanuel, “but it is unacceptable [that] it happened in any neighborhood in Chicago.”
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But If you were somehow to identify and arrest every single one of the shooters involved in the weekend violence, you would no doubt discover that nearly all of them came from homes with absent fathers, and that nearly all of them had been previously arrested for violent crime. (They won’t come close to arresting all of the shooters, or even a quarter of them; the website Heyjackass.com reports Chicago P.D.’s murder clearance rate for 2018 so far is 14.6 percent.)

The vast government apparatus that over the years has come to make fathers unnecessary, at least in a financial sense, lies at the very heart of Democratic politics. Single mothers may do their best, but the research is consistent and irrefutable: boys raised without fathers are far more likely to become involved in crime.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

[QUOT


Gun crime is caused by the ease of gun availability . Y .

Bullshit Moon Bat. Youare confused.

For instance, the state of North Dakota as the same number of residences as Washington DC, 1000 times more legal gun ownership and 1/50th the gun crime. If gun availability was the cause of gun crime then states like Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah etc would be the gun crime capitols of the US but they are not. The places where most of the gun crime in this country takes place are the Democrat controlled inner city shitholes with strict gun control laws.

So dishonest . Typical of gun nuts . ND is a giant empty state . DC is a city . It’s literally impossible to shoot your neighbor because they are so far away from you!!!

I challenge you to compare similar suited states .

Example . Massachusetts vs Arizona . Similar population and both have a major city . Opposite sides of gun control .

I did... Houston and Chicago, and Houston has more people carrying guns, gun stores and gun ranges and they are in a state next to the narco state of Mexico...


Chicago.... no gun stores, no shooting ranges in city limits. Extreme gun control. 47,000 Concealed carry permits in cook county.....

How Many People Have Concealed Carry Licenses in Your County?

Houston... gun stores on every corner, shooting ranges too, and more concealed carry permits than Chicago. 139,563 licensed permits in the county that contains Houston.

Licensed to Carry: Handguns in Texas

Houston is on the border with the narco state of Mexico....

Gun murder in 2016...

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

Now I know why you picked 2016 and Chicago !! It’s typical dishonest gun nut stat manipulation .

Chicago had more murders than LA and NYC combined !

And NYC had a little higher than your Houston , despite being what ? 3x the population. Of Houston ?

Busted !
Chicago's 762 homicides in 2016 is more than New York and Los Angeles combined - NY Daily News

Moron.... that doesn't bust me... it shows you are an idiot.... it shows that gun control isn't the problem... since, moron, New York, and L.A. have the exact same gun control laws as Chicago...and Chicago has a higher gun murder rate than both of them...

Gun control isn't the issue...

Then.... you compare

Houston... in a state with loose gun control. Gun stores on every corner, gun ranges to. 139,563 gun permits in the county holding Houston , in a state next to the Narco state of Mexico.

Chicago.... no gun stores in city limits. No gun ranges. Extreme gun control laws. Not next to a Narco State, and 42, 000 gun permits....

Population of cities 2016:

Chicago........2.7 million

Houston........2.3 million


Murder rate 2016:

Chicago........765

Houston .......301

When you add the suburbs of Houston the number swells to over 5 million.