Failing Milwaukee Police Chief, DA Blame Concealed Carry For Crime

By Jenn Jacques

Did you hear the one about about city leaders who blamed the entire state of Wisconsin for Milwaukee’s increase in violent crime?

Not that these particular Democrat “leaders” have ever been accountable for the city they’ve been entrusted to protect in the past, but this one is a doozy.

At Wednesday’s Milwaukee Community Justice Council meeting aimed at addressing the spike in shootings in the Democrat-led city, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn took a shot at zeroing in on what he thinks is the root of his city’s violence: the State of Wisconsin’s concealed carry law passed in 2011.

“Since that law has passed, almost every single year, the number of crime guns seized by this department has gone up and the time-to-crime on our most frequently used weapons has decreased,” Flynn stated Wednesday.

“Now that’s correlation not causation, but it’s a pretty strong correlation.”

Not one to partake in passive aggressive attacks, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm jumped at the opportunity to unabashedly target law-abiding Wisconsinites. Piggy-backing off Flynn’s notion, Chisholm admitted that his office ‘is concerned with citizens lawfully carrying’ concealed weapons “in collaboration with or close proximity or directly with somebody that doesn’t have a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms