Or we could address the real issues and get serious about attacking homicides. You know, like poverty, the degradation of the African American family, etc.
More guns not equal to more deaths
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Or we could address the real issues and get serious about attacking homicides. You know, like poverty, the degradation of the African American family, etc.
Actually the Chicago thugs get their guns in Indiana, Northwest Indiana to be precise. It's a ongoing issue around here. Thug with a criminal record gets a wanna be thug with no criminal record to go make the purchase. Criminals will find a way. Who'd a thunk it.
They also get their guns here. South burb of Chicago. Same style of buying though.
"More than a quarter of the firearms seized on the streets here by the Chicago Police Department over the past five years were bought just outside city limits in Cook County suburbs, according to an analysis by the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Others came from stores around Illinois and from other states, like Indiana, less than an hour’s drive away. Since 2008, more than 1,300 of the confiscated guns, the analysis showed, were bought from just one store, Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale, Ill., within a few miles of Chicago’s city limits."
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-M...Gets-Its-Guns-Where-It-Used-to-Get-Its-Blues/
Of course. The debate will continue about the means, however.
The problem is that all the energy on the left is about the gun and none of it is about the underlying problems. You can't kill someone with a gun if there are no guns - obviously. But there are guns, and no one can get them all off the street. It's impossible. So going after the people who do obey the law isn't the solution that will provide the real payoff. Unless the solution is to just drive the anti-gun agenda.
There are media attention whores on both sides of this discussion.
Oh I don't know, affirmative action, progressive taxation, and redistribution in general seem to get a lot of attention from the right.
Which guns would you have banned? When it is a hand gun used the left wants hand guns banned. When it's the so called assault rifle, they want assault rifles banned. Far as I know the left is okay with shotguns and long rifles. Correct me if I'm wrong, but those weapons can do a bunch of killing too. So if we get rid of the hand guns and AR, next up are the shotguns and long rifles which will be used in the crimes. Then what? And down the slippery slope we go.
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Progressive taxation and affirmative action are driving factors of gun homicides according to the right?
I don't know about "the Right"... but "progressive taxation" and "affirmative action" are both immoral. Ironically, the ones who supposedly benefit from the above are the ones committing the homicides... Crazy, eh?