Gun Free Chicago

[TacOfficer]

Illinois' first concealed carry licenses in the mail -- 5,000 of them


http://my.chicagotribune.com/#sectio.../p2p-79475413/

[TacOfficer]

Times are changing.

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#sectio.../p2p-79832002/

[ddoering]

Originally Posted by TacOfficer

Times are changing.

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#sectio.../p2p-79832002/

Wasn't there a Congressman dressed like this after Travon bought it?

"The man was walking from his garage to the front of his home when two males in hoodies appeared in a gangway between his home and the neighbor's home, Sullivan said."

[TacOfficer]

Originally Posted by ddoering

Wasn't there a Congressman dressed like this after Travon bought it?

"The man was walking from his garage to the front of his home when two males in hoodies appeared in a gangway between his home and the neighbor's home, Sullivan said."

I believe so, and the famous:
"If I had a son......."

[bjm300]

http://usfinancepost.com/more-guns-e...met-16413.html

This reminds me of a quote from a study done by Harvard about gun control and how effective it is at reducing violent crime.

“If more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death, areas within nations with higher gun ownership should in general have more murders than those with less gun ownership in a similar area. But, in fact, the reverse pattern prevails”

The entire study can be read here: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/...useronline.pdf

[NurseTim]

From the article, several shots were fired, nobody hit (in a gangway? Is that like an alleyway only gangs hang out there?) and no property damage.
Was he using some kind of disolving bullets? Maybe they were made of ice. How can there be no property damage? The bullets had stop somewhere.

Good to see the good citizens win one for a change in the windy city.

[TacOfficer]

Originally Posted by NurseTim

From the article, several shots were fired, nobody hit (in a gangway? Is that like an alleyway only gangs hang out there?) and no property damage.
Was he using some kind of disolving bullets? Maybe they were made of ice. How can there be no property damage? The bullets had stop somewhere.

Good to see the good citizens win one for a change in the windy city.

Possible point of impact: trees, dirt, brick, evil squirrel......

[Sdiver]

Originally Posted by NurseTim

From the article, several shots were fired, nobody hit (in a gangway? Is that like an alleyway only gangs hang out there?) and no property damage.
Was he using some kind of disolving bullets? Maybe they were made of ice. How can there be no property damage? The bullets had stop somewhere.

Good to see the good citizens win one for a change in the windy city.

Aside from the nautical definition of a gangway, the gangway mentioned here is a passageway between buildings.

Definition of gangway (n)

gang·way
[ gáng wày ]

1.narrow walkway: a narrow passageway, especially a temporary walkway

2.entrance in ship's side: an opening in the side of a ship through which it is boarded by means of a gangplank

3.make way: used to indicate to people in a crowd that they should make way because somebody is coming through

They are very narrow passageways between buildings, especially in Chicago, where most residents have their garages located behind their buildings, which is accessible only by an ally, then they must exit their garages, walk through these gangways to enter through a front door. Very rarely is there a back or side door in which residents can enter through.

As you see from the below picture, it's very narrow, and any rounds fired may have hit the sides of the buildings and have easily shattered or disintegrated upon impact.

Or they could have easily exited and hit dirt, trees, bricks or even a squirrel ....

[TacOfficer]

......EVIL squirrel.

[Sdiver]

Originally Posted by TacOfficer

......EVIL squirrel.

.... and SNEAKY

They've been known, every-so often, to run up your pants and bite your nuts.

[Sdiver]

You know, the Libs are going to say these numbers are the effect of the gun free zones that were in place before this. That it just took some time to "come around."

Chicago’s murder rate drops to lowest level in decades following new concealed carry gun law

CHICAGO, Ill., April 10 – Chicago’s murder rate dropped to its lowest level since 1958, following the adoption of a concealed carry gun law by Illinois last year. Chicago had some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, and in 2012, Chicago led the nation in murders. But the courts said the tough gun laws violated the Second Amendment, and Illinois was forced to adopt a law allowing concealed carry. Chicago police began accepting applications in January of this year. Anti-gun critics predicted an increase in crime, murder and mayhem. Now Chicago police are reporting the lowest level of crime and murder in decades.

When Illinois passed the law allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed hangduns, it became the last state in the Union to do so. The Supreme Court ruled in McDonald v. Chicago that the right of an individual to “keep and bear arms” protected by the Second Amendment is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and applies to the states. Then the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Illinois to repeal its law that prohibited concealed carry and gave the state until July 9, 2013 to replace it.

Anti-gun zealots predicted mayhem, warning that high-crime areas, like Chicago, would only see more violence if residents were allowed to carry guns in public. Governor Quinn called the concealed carry bill “extremely disappointing,” saying it “will lead to tragedy” and that “public safety should never be compromised or negotiated away.” He accused the legislature of “surrender[ing]” to the NRA. But the opposite occurred–instead of crime and murder rising, it has decreased.

Chicago has had a significant problem with murder and gun crime. According to the FBI, the U.S. had a national homicide rate of 4.7 per 100,000 people in 2011. Illinois’ homicide rate in 2011 was 6.4 per 100,000, or 136 percent of the national rate. And though during that time it was illegal to carry them, handguns were involved with the vast majority of murders. In 2012, Chicago led the nation with 506 murders. Gun control, evidently, was not working out very well.

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http://www.brennerbrief.com/chicagos...carry-gun-law/

[Guy]

I guess those strict gun laws are working.

Amid weekend of violence, 6 children shot Sunday night

Documentary NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES ‘GUNLAND’

[WarriorDiplomat]

Gun laws are the equivelant of OSHA for criminals.

Remember when D.C. was the murder and violence capitol before gun ban laws were repealed in 2008.

With the internet even if they were able to somehow take every gun,.. violent mentally warped individuals will find alternatives to guns, the riot in the new Mexico prison with 32 inmates murdered by blow torches shovels etc....proves you don't need a gun to be violent. In fact the current segregation in prisons is due to violent people figuring out ways to kill maim, injure without guns from paper to bubblegun where there is a will there is a way.

Guns keep honest people safer from the truly violent people who even without a gun would beat, rape, murder, suffocate, molest, torture and anything else we can think of. Damn Politicians not one of them truly cares about gun rights either way for or against it is nothing more than a hot topic to run on and is always popular.

Something interesting is Britains actual violent crime numbers vs what is publicized. I believe the highest in Europe

[Dog Pound Zulu]

http://heyjackass.com/


This has the "shot in the Ass" Ometer....Informative

[Sdiver]

Hummmm .... I wonder why the MSM is silent on this?

CHICAGO: 39 Shot So Far This Weekend – Media Continues to Focus on CA Incident

It’s been 3 days since xxxxx xxxxx shot 11 people in California, killing 3 (he also stabbed 3 people to death and hit at least 4 people with his car) and it’s all the media can talk about.

We’ve seen numerous reports about the killer, his family, the victim’s families and the suspected reasons for the mass murder spree. The incident has gotten near 24 hour coverage on popular news websites and television stations.

Over the same time period 39 people were shot in Chicago (note that is just Friday – Sunday, Memorial Day stats aren’t up yet),

Chicago, like the area of California where the murders took place, has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation.

However, there is a difference. Outside of the Chicago media, virtually no one has mentioned the problems in the Windy City.

This just goes to show how biased anti-gun activists as well as the national media is. If these people were truly so concerned with reducing violence, why are they ignoring one of the largest hubs of violence in the country?

Of course, we know reducing violence isn’t the end goal for anti-gun activists. It’s a political game to them. Something to be won or lost. Them vs the “evil NRA” and the gun industry. Gang violence and violence related to other criminal activity such as drugs in Chicago doesn’t help their cause. It doesn’t help them win their “game,” so it goes unspoken.

However, a crazy rich kid who used guns in a violent crime spree (he also used several other, non-firearm weapons), fits right into their agenda. Something they can easily package. A single incident that can be described in a few sound bites as a rally cry for “their side”.

http://gunssavelives.net/blog/chicag...-ca-incident/#