Thread: Chicago Shootings Reach 2,349 This Year — Someone Shot Every 2.8 Hours

Chicago Shootings Reach 2,349 This Year — Someone Shot Every 2.8 Hours

MIKE PICCIONE

Editor, Guns & Gear
11:20 AM 10/06/2015

Someone in Chicago has been shot every 2.84 hours this year for a total of 2,349 shootings during the period of January 1, 2015 to October 6, 2015, according to crime stats published by the Chicago Tribune.

This year, Chicago is expected to eclipse the 2014 milestone of a shooting every 3.38 hours in 2014 with a total victim count of 2,587.

Chicago ranks as one of the most regulated cities in the nation for gun control. Concealed carry is almost nonexistent. To purchase a gun or ammunition requires a Firearm Owners Identification card in the entire state of Illinois, and additionally, a Chicago Firearm Permit – which is required to possess a firearm in Chicago.

Not only are the people heavily regulated in Chicago, but guns are also heavily regulated. Any long gun with a grip protruding from the stock or a firearm with a telescoping stock is prohibited and classified as an “assault weapon.”

Magazines are limited to a 12-round capacity.

Even a spring-powered pellet gun with a muzzle velocity of 700 feet-per-second is classified as a “firearm,” although it does not use gun powder, the component that puts the “fire” in “firearm.”

A stun-gun — a non-lethal device with no projectile — is considered a deadly weapon and cannot be carried for self-defense.

Chicago, for all intents and purposes, is a “gun-free zone.”

But all the state and city regulations associated with firearms in Chicago have failed to produce a safe city, and these are the policies that President Obama and Secretary Clinton wish to extend to the rest of the country.

While saying that “criminals go out-of-state to places where it is easier to obtain guns” is often used to push gun control, it illustrates that criminals ignore gun laws in every state and that onerous access to Second Amendment rights on law abiding citizens doesn’t stop crime.

Clinton’s campaign platform includes a call for federal legislation mandating background checks on all private firearms transfers and sales. Clinton also wants to repeal the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.” That law protects firearm manufacturers from lawsuits for negligent use of firearms.

President Obama, through is spokesman Josh Earnest, has announced, “The president has frequently pushed his team to consider a range of executive actions that could more effectively keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn’t have access to them. That’s something that is ongoing here.”

Per the president’s policy, Chicago has taken every action “that could more effectively keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn’t have access to them.”

Yet the shootings continue to rise.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/06/ch...#ixzz3nqA9H63f

They should repeal all those unconstitutional gun laws, arm everyone up, get all the unemployed some jobs, and they'll probably see a big drop in the number of shootings in Chicago. But then everyone would become a Republican and what would the DemoQuacks have to run on then?

We have an interstate freeway in our city, that could always handle the traffic load. Until our brilliant politicians sought "economic growth" out in one suburban region. Suddenly....the interstate freeway slipped just past the point of being able to handle the demand--- to utterly bad congestion.

So, I wonder if this is what is going to happen in the US? Will we, suddenly and without warning, slip past the tipping point where life becomes unbearable and it is only those who can prey upon chaos who do well?