The Trace’s Report on Chicago’s “Crime Guns” (Pt. 1)

By Robert Farago

NOTE: Part 2 of this series will discuss the types of “crime guns” in detail. Please hang fire on commenting on the handgun types until that post drops.

“Despite having some of the toughest gun regulations of any city in the country, Chicago continues to record thousands of shootings per year,” Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitpropagandists at thetrace,org report. “As President Obama has pointed out, that isn’t a failing of the city’s gun laws. The problem is that most of the guns used in crimes in Chicago come from neighboring states with lax gun laws.” That’s one theory. Here’s another . . .

The supply is not as important as the demand. In other words, as long as there are gang bangers banging in The Windy City, there will be guns with which they can bang. A fact that The Trace acknowledges:

Between 80 to 85 percent of the city’s homicides are committed with a gun. Of those murders, a “preponderance” are carried out by gang members, according to a 2015 report co-authored by Duke’s Phillip Cook.

The idea that you can choke off their supply of firearms by “tightening” gun laws in surrounding states is ludicrous. And misguided. …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns