Chicago’s Top Cop Keeps Pushing for Unpopular Gun Law

By David Lombardo

Increasing sentence length for repeat gun offenders would seem to be a popular proposal, but a Chicago Sun Times article recounted an on-going disconnect between Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson and the Illinois State Legislature.

The fact is in 2016, there were 4,379 people shot in the City of Chicago resulting in 717 dead. To put that in perspective, someone got shot about every two minutes, 24-hours a day, seven days a week; about every 12 minutes someone was shot to death. Johnson lives with those raw facts every day; the legislature lives with politics.

Generally, calls for more gun control coming out of Chicago are unrelentingly aimed at law abiding citizens. Gun control schemes invariably infringe on constitutional rights with no positive effect on violent crime.

Johnson had his say before the State Legislature last week but the effect remains to be seen. He pointed out the proposed bill puts the punishment squarely on the shoulders of the perpetrator which would seem to be the one thing all concerned parties could agree upon.

Johnson’s point, that implementation would create a “mental culture to not pick up a gun,” may or may not …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms