Monday, August 12, 2019

Look to Chicago and Mexico at what Strict Gun Laws Reap

  Look to Chicago, and learn, and live. Learn that it has some of the tightest gun laws in the nation, yet it is a den for violence and shootings.
   So goes the argument.
  And, look south of the border, to that riddled country riddled with drug cartels, and note all the violence and murders and massacres of one cartel by another. Mexico has but one gun store in the entire nation. It can take months to qualify to buy a gun. Many forms of guns are reserved for the military and police. Per capita, Mexico is well down the list about about 60th in the world in gun ownership per capita.
  I will wonder at that, whether it is correct --whether the count is complete on guns owned by the cartels and mobs. But, I will also look at how, yes, the mobs do inflict death on a seemingly defenseless society.
  Chicago? It lies next to two states with permissive gun laws. Studies show many of the guns in Chicago are brought in from neighboring states. It would be interesting to know how many guns per capita there are in Chicago. My quick search returned no such information.
 

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