Will Chicago Homicides Beat the 2016 Number of 807? Odds Are Good

By John Farnam

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “That nation is surest to live in peace, that is most capable of making war; and a man with a sword always by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it.” ~ John Trenchard

The City of Chicago is about to pass yet another dubious milestone:

Six-hundred homicides this year alone, and we still have six weeks to go!

And, the above figure is far from revealing the whole story. The six-hundred bodies are just the ones that someone knows about. Bodies of other “missing” have yet to be found!

Of every six people reported shot (not including suicides and accidental, self-inflicted GSWs), only one ultimately dies.

Many non-fatal gunshot wounds (intentional and accidental) go unreported. In fact, many, probably most, non-injury UDs (and more than a few intentional discharges) are never reported!

A popular media myth is that our nation’s current murder rate is being reduced from previous years.

That may be technically true, but the reason is superior emergency medical care, which means wounds that would have likely been fatal thirty years ago, no longer are.

Another reason …Read the Rest

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