Re: The Chicago Gun Myth

On 8/2/20 7:16 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-chicago-gun-myth/
> 
> Politicians blame out-of-state sellers, but the real problem lies at home.
> 
> The tragically incompetent mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, appeared on 
> CNN’s State of the Union this weekend to deflect attention from the horror 
> show unfolding in her city by blaming interlopers for its spiking murder 
> rate: “We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no 
> gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons — that is 
> hurting cities like Chicago.”
> 
> Although these accusations have leveled by Chicago politicians for decades 
> now, they are a myth.
> 
> For one thing, there is no state in the nation with “virtually no gun 
> control” or “no background checks.” Every time anyone in the United States 
> purchases a gun from a federal firearms licensee (FFL) — a gun store, a 
> gun show, it doesn’t matter — the seller runs a background check on the 
> buyer through the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) 
> database. In some cases, the FFL checks to see if the buyer has passed a 
> background check via a state-issued concealed-carry permit. In states that 
> allow individual private sales, it is illegal to knowingly sell to anyone 
> who you believe is obtaining a firearm for criminal purposes.
> 
> Those who cross state lines to buy guns undergo the same background check, 
> and the sale is processed by an FFL in the buyer’s home state. The exact 
> same laws apply to all online sales.
> 
> The vast majority of Americans obtain their guns in this manner, and they 
> rarely commit crimes. Around 7 percent of criminals in prison bought 
> weapons using their real names. Fewer than 1 percent obtained them at gun 
> shows. As the Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer points out, there have 
> been around 18 million concealed-carry permit holders over the past 15 
> years, and they have committed 801 firearm-related homicides over that 
> span, or somewhere around 0.7 percent of all firearm-related murders. 
> Concealed-carry holders not only are more law-abiding than the general 
> population as a group; they are more law-abiding than law enforcement.
> 
> Studies of those imprisoned on firearms charges show that most often they 
> obtain their weapons by stealing them or buying them in black markets. A 
> smaller percentage get them from family members or friends.
> 
> On top of all this, federal law requires every FFL license holder to 
> report the purchase of two or more handguns by the same person with a week 
> to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. This is one of 
> the reasons straw purchasers — people with a clean record who buy for 
> criminals — spread their operations to other states. This is not unique to 
> Illinois or Chicago. It has nothing to do with strict or lenient laws. It 
> has mostly to do with cities and states failing to prosecute straw 
> purchases.
> 
> Lightfoot claims that 60 percent of the guns used in Chicago murders are 
> bought from out of state. I assume she is relying on 2017’s suspect “gun 
> trace report,” which looked at guns confiscated in criminal acts from 2013 
> and 2016. Even if we trusted the city’s data, most guns used in Illinois 
> crimes are bought in-state. If gun laws in Illinois — which earns a grade 
> of “A-“ from the pro-gun-control Gifford Law Center, tied for second 
> highest in the country after New Jersey — are more effective than gun laws 
> in Missouri, Wisconsin, or Indiana, why is it that FFL dealers in suburban 
> Cook County are the origin point for a third of the crime guns recovered 
> in Chicago,

If those other states have such worthless gun control laws why are they
NOT awash in murders and illegal guns being captured by police?

It makes no sense that the guns are only used for crimes after being
brought into Chicago, unless there is something unique about Chicago
that created the higher murder rates....


Something like Marxist-Democrats running the City for so long that
people are so desperate for actual leaders instead of CRIMINALS RUNNING
THE CITY that they are willing to kill to survive in that environment
created by the Democrats.


If they had better leaders maybe they would be better people?


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*That's Karma*

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