After Seattle news media reported a 30-percent rise in the number of shootings in Seattle over this time last year, and a Tuesday homicide in the city’s Alki neighborhood, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is blasting the city’s so-called “gun violence tax” as a “monumental failure.” “You simply cannot […]
Startling Revelation About Chicago Crime Guns
A significant source of firearms involved in Chicago crimes is not gun shows or even straw purchases from neighboring states, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times, but from gun shop burglaries around the Prairie State. The revelation may poke a hole in the claim by gun prohibition lobbying groups that gun shows are […]
Chicago Cops Want Semi-Auto Rifles As Bodies Pile Up
Chicago’s finest want more firepower to fight an epidemic of homicides, according to a column in the Chicago Sun-Times, although nobody has explained how arming cops with carbines and rifles is going to prevent criminals from opening fire when there are no police in sight. It doesn’t always work this way, as noted by the […]
Carnage Continues in Chicago; 43 Shot over Easter Weekend
Easter weekend in Chicago saw at least two homicides and 43 other people shot in a staggering wave of violence. The Chicago Sun-Times continues to keep score, at its “tracker” page, with a detailed list of where and when each victim was hit. Six people on Friday, more than a dozen on Saturday and the […]
Surprise! Gun In Chicago Judge Slaying Used In Earlier Crime, Says Cop
Chicago police investigating the Monday morning slaying of Cook County Judge Raymond Myles in front of his South Side home say the gun used in that crime is linked to another shooting in January, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. One man identified as Joshua Smith was in custody and faces charges of first-degree murder, second-degree […]
Chicago Citizens Arming Up Against Crime as Murders Continue
There’s a new wind blowing in the Windy City as law-abiding Chicagoans are reportedly arming up because, according to the online DNAInfo.com, they are worried about crime in the city. This comes as another weekend of blood-letting has wrapped up in the metropolis along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan. WXRT, the local CBS affiliate, […]
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