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Posted On: 09/14/2016 1:36:38 PM
I guess they didn't teach you, or you were out sick when they did, about the fallacy of 'sweeping generalizations'.
Plenty of 'good people from Chicago' have top flight U's to go to in their 'backyard', Including but not limited to the U of Chicago, NU, Loyola U. and DePaul.
And, like most States, The State U and it's branches are scattered throughout most small towns.
"What's up with that?" Just a cursory use of the Google Machine would inform you that guns flow from lax regulation areas, IN, into high regulation areas, Chg.
It's the main argument for National standards for background checks.
Plenty of 'good people from Chicago' have top flight U's to go to in their 'backyard', Including but not limited to the U of Chicago, NU, Loyola U. and DePaul.
And, like most States, The State U and it's branches are scattered throughout most small towns.
"What's up with that?" Just a cursory use of the Google Machine would inform you that guns flow from lax regulation areas, IN, into high regulation areas, Chg.
It's the main argument for National standards for background checks.
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Charles C.W. Cooke, writing for National Review, previews the conservative spin, arguing that because Chicago has a high murder rate and relatively strict gun laws, it “defies belief” that the President would defend gun regulations there.
https://thinkprogress.org/no-chicago-isnt-pro....9ml5xf7kt
But Cooke and the other conservatives who will invariably make this argument today are wrong. Chicago’s gun laws aren’t the cause of the recent uptick in violence, nor does it prove that gun regulations are ineffectual. If anything, it underscores the need for tighter federal laws.
Most significantly, it is important to understand that Chicago is not an island. Although Chicago has historically had strict gun laws, laws in the surrounding parts of Illinois were much laxer — enabling middlemen to supply the criminals in Chicago with guns they purchased elsewhere.
Forty three percent of the guns seized by law enforcement in Chicago were originally purchased in other parts of Illinois. And even if the state had stricter gun laws, Illinois is not an island either. The remaining fifty seven percent of Chicago guns all came from out of state, most significantly from nearby Indiana and distant Mississippi — neither of which are known for their strict gun laws.
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