Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Chicago Violence

Think Progress

As of Monday morning, nine people had been shot to death and another 32 wounded in Chicago since the Friday that began Memorial Day weekend.

One of the youngest victims was Jacele Johnson, a four-year-old girl, who was shot while sitting in a car parked outside of a prom celebration in West Englewood as someone drove by firing. Two other children were also shot in the same incident: a 17-year-old boy who was hit in the chest and had a graze wound to the neck, and a 15-year-old girl who suffered a graze wound on her forehead, both of whom were in stable condition. Jacele was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery, and she was upgraded to serious condition Sunday morning. 

The first fatality was a 34-year-old man who was shot in the chest and shoulder while sitting on the front porch of his home in Wicker Park. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. The youngest death was a 15-year-old boy in Bronzeville who was shot along with another 14-year-old struck in the foot in an alley. Other fatalities included a 20-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds; a 24-year-old man shot in the head; a man between 20 and 30 shot in the face; a 29-year-old woman shot in the chest and leg by a group who were denied entry to a house party; a 35-year-old man shot in the stomach; and a 28-year-old man shot in the head and shoulder.

Critics of gun law reforms argue that the high levels of gun violence in Chicago are proof that regulation doesn’t work, given that the city has relatively strict gun laws. But lax laws surrounding the area, both in the state of Illinois and nearby states, allow guns to flow into the city, which make up the vast majority of those seized by law enforcement. Research has found that localities in states that have weak gun laws tend to suffer higher rates of gun violence than those in states with stricter ones. Overall, more gun ownership has been found to lead to more murders.

7 comments:

  1. Overall, more gun ownership has been found to lead to more murders.

    I read a line like this and a red flag immediately goes up. I call BS before I even need to click on the link. When you click on the link, sure enough you’ll see it’s not “more murders”, it’s more “gun murders”. You people always try to conflate murders with some type of “gun death” stat, and it’s no surprise why. Murders are uncorrelated.

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    1. Says math. Math is the one universal language- literally. It's the language that SETI uses to try and communicate with extraterrestrial life. Even on Kepler-186f, guns are not correlated to earthling murder.

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    2. Also, the fact that you gun control types never show a comprehensive correlation calculation between guns and murder says something. Don't you think you people would be shouting it from the rooftops if there were more murders where there are more guns (or less restrictive gun laws)? Instead we always see "gun deaths" or "gun homicides". That says something. Surely your think tanks have run the calculations- they just shut up about the results and change the metric to be something they can tout.

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  2. "gun flow"....because if one city in a state has anti freedom laws the rest of the citys in the state should be forced to follow the first into hell....

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    1. Oh, what they have going on now isn't hell?

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    2. No thats right the residents call it Chiraq.....

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