They are fighting fire with fire. You think the NRA hasn't been astroturfing all these years? The anti-gun lobby is fighting an uphill battle. They are using the other team's tactics. People are getting sick of kids being murdered and NOTHING changing.
Apparently not. We have laws, we have regulations, we have ongoing endemic violence happening in the large cities, and nothing so far has stopped that. So, why not make suburban affluent schools the target? Chicago lost more kids last month didn't they? Where is the liberal anxiety over that? Yes, we are sick. Sick to death of liberal tolerance of the social and economic conditions they have created that continue to effectively produce this level of violence in our large urban cities.
The NRA has gotten every attempt to curb gun violence in Chicago reversed. Now the people are getting very sick of that ****.
Wonderful document this as Chicago has strict gun laws. Its a gang issue in Chicago so explain how the NRA is helping gang violence...
Which is simply a lie. As the local regulation exists, the regulatory environment exists in spite of the NRA. Chicago represents one the most highly regulated localities in the nation, and yet, it retains it's violence gun regulation is obviously being ignored, and the violence perpetuates. And yet, little, if any real anxiety from the left.
End the drug war, legalize drugs, and the vast majority of related crime will drastically reduce. Take away the financial incentive and these people will have to get off their asses and get a job.
Funny that you'd go there given the "don't treat the criminal like the criminal" is what ostensibly sparked the violence at Parkland?
Nope. That's a bullshit meme you parrots have been fed. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...l-chicago-dahleen-glanton-20171003-story.html Chicago does not have the strictest gun laws in the country. It’s time for gun lovers to stop spreading that lie. A decade ago that was indeed a title Chicago wore proudly. We were the only major city that still had an ordinance banning residents from keeping a handgun in their home. The handgun ban made us the primary target of the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation, and in 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court forced Chicago to fall into line with the rest of the country. Since then, the courts have peeled off so many layers of our once stellar gun ordinance that it’s barely recognizable. We’re still maneuvering to keep gun stores and shooting ranges from opening in the city limits. But the courts have ruled against us on that, too, so we know it’s just a matter of time. Remember that old requirement that gun owners in Chicago register their firearms with the city and obtain a permit? Well, that’s gone too. And thanks to the Illinois General Assembly, which was pressured by the federal courts to pass a concealed carry law in 2013, people can walk the streets of Chicago with a gun attached to their waist and another strapped to their ankle. Sorry, gun lovers, your attempts to use Chicago as a prop to bolster your claims that gun control laws do nothing to curb gun violence just don’t hold up. New York, in fact, has stricter gun laws on the books than Chicago. And guess what? Its homicide numbers are heading toward historic lows. Los Angeles has some pretty tough gun laws too. Its homicide numbers also pale compared with Chicago’s.
There are people who suffer from the grave delusion that strict gun control does not work. It does. The bullshit about Chicago is a Gig Lie, repeated loudly and often. The propagandists know the parroting herd will just blindly repeat the Big Lie without checking the facts.
I did not say they had the most strict... Try reading what i said.. And yes the USSC follow the Constitution.. Again the courts not the NRA. Facts instead of some stupid opinion blog.
"With no permit or license required to purchase a gun in Indiana, it is incredibly easy for a trafficker to drive across the state line, obtain a gun and use it to commit a homicide on the streets of Chicago. Those with felony convictions commonly use straw purchases, in which they enlist someone with a clean record to purchase multiple guns and bring them into the city." Indiana has background checks.. "Straw" purchases are already illegal "gasp".
How ironic. A person who just parroted a bullshit claim Chicago has strict gun laws whined that he wants facts. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
So now you can admit i said strict instead of most strict.. We have that little bit of honesty from you... Your article is typical of Progressive articles in that it blames everyone but those committing the crimes.
It's not funny, it's fact. Legalize drugs and it dries up the incentive for these folks, let's face it, most of this is gang violence and gangs get their money from drug dealing.
So you have displayed that there is a large amount of people in Chicago that do not care about laws so do you still think more laws will help an issue?
No, I think -less- laws will help the issue. Do you people read? Ending the war on drugs dries up their financial incentive and the gangs will be defunct because they will be broke.
And there is no realistic expectation that even with legalization that those gang/drug enterprises would in any way dissipate. The reality is that even legal products are still intruded on by the insertion of criminal activities within them, no?
No realistic expectation? http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0092816 Rates of violent crimes like assault and homicide dropped where medical cannabis was legalized, while burglary and robbery rates remained unchanged. Keeping drugs illegal tacitly empowers cartels in many locals that are brutally violent. Like I said, I saw a video of a Brazilian youth being dismembered while alive over drug dealing. That sort of stuff is PAID FOR by US consumers. Every cent of our money that floods into these third world **** holes is paying for these criminal activities. Yes, some illicit behavior will be expected, but cartel busting should be our second priority, right behind ending the unconstitutional restriction by government fiat on consumable goods by citizens of the union, no?
60% of guns recovered in Chicago came from outside the state. They just ignore this giant piece of information and it's why republicans have lost all credibility time and again.
Of course they are "good." They are white. Who cares about the black kids in Chicago. At least not the Democratic Party. Of course the Democratic party doesn't care. They are black. At least the Democratic Party isn't openly trying lynch them.
Knowing the origination of where a gun came from doesn't then mean that the regulatory framework in place in Chicago is working, does it? In fact, clearly, it means that it is not. Obviously. What is truly laughable are those who refuse to acknowledge this on the left. Why is that? Oh yeah, because it is the policy that you intend to inflict on the rest of us, who clearly can see that it doesn't work. So, you seem willing to tie yourself to an unworkable, ineffective policy, again. Shocking, I know...
Astroturfing. Is that like Fox News using a Parkland high school kid to make up a bullshit story that he was given scripted questions by CNN?
When you have no argument attack grammar. Typical right wing tactic. Works every time to weed out the alt right lackey's.
