Chicago Mayor Tries To Blame Everyone Else For Her City’s Violence

By Tom Knighton

Twitter can be a very strange place. That’s especially true when the media flips out over something said on Twitter.

A prime example is how the media has latched onto Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s tweet telling Sen. Ted Cruz to “keep our name out of your mouth” after Cruz pointed to the epidemic of violence that plagues the Windy City.

60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL—mostly from states dominated by coward Republicans like you who refuse to enact commonsense gun legislation. Keep our name out of your mouth. https://t.co/yVM4JHL3xy pic.twitter.com/pr613A3dpf

— Lori Lightfoot (@LightfootForChi) September 3, 2019

Of course, she’s not wrong about where the guns come from. Many of the guns used for violence crime do come from Indiana as well as many other states.

The problem, though, is that Lightfoot is ignoring one very important fact. If access to guns is the problem, why isn’t Indiana more violent than Chicago in the first place?

If guns from Indiana are to blame for Chicago’s problems, then shouldn’t Indiana have plenty of problems of their own?

Yet they don’t. Why is that?

Probably because violence is a complex issue that’s not solved by simplistic measures like gun control. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms