GMAN continues to claim:
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I just read that Chicago has now surpassed 500 murders of children this year.
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Nope! 500 murders of ALL ages this year!
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That is almost 10 children murdered in a city that doesn't allow citizens to own guns.
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I can't even GUESS what stat you are trying to quote here.
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I wonder how many lives could have been saved if people living in the city were allowed to own guns so that they could defend themselves.
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I would guess that the majority of those deaths were "gun on gun" violence... as in gangs. So, the dead gangbangers probably HAD guns. How'd that work out for them?
MANY others were accidental killings of innocent people that just happened to be sitting on their porch or mowing their yards when the GUNS came by "ablazin'!"
Of those who might have been killed during a home invasion.... how do you KNOW they didn't (illegally) have a gun but just couldn't get to it in time?
The fact is... Chicago has a high crime/gun death rate, because they have a high POVERTY rate... and because handguns are cheap and plentiful! It is higher than some OTHER cities or towns, because they have a higher population. It's a "per capita" type of thing.
You can't compare the gun violence rate in Chicago to some town of 25,000 in a Red State and then claim it's because of gun laws.
Besides... it's the chicken or the egg dilemma. Do cities/states with more restrictive gun laws have more gun violence because of the laws? Or do they have the laws because they have more gun violence?
Since gun laws are usually strengthened BECAUSE of a certain intolerable level of violence... I give my vote (of reason) to the latter.
So, enough about Chicago okay?