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Is Suggesting Gun Control Racist?
by Chip Jones on January 2, 2013
As 2012 drew to a close, our President has renewed his attempts to strengthen gun control legislation nationally. But as one looks empirically at locations where there is the most stringent gun control, we almost always find the highest murder rate.
That being said, we hardly ever look at who is murdered. Let’s use the President’s home town of Chicago as an example. One would think that he would learn best in his own back yard, and where his long time political friend and ex Chief of Staff is Mayor. Let’s look at the record of firearms limitation in Chicago.
When Rahm Emmanuel took office as Mayor of Chicago in mid 2011, the murder rate had hit a modern era low of 433. In his first full year in office, 2012, murders spiked to 532, amounting to a 23% increase in total numbers of murders. As we look at the centerpieces of the national debate that has ensued after the Newtown, CT school shooting, two main themes have emerged. The first one is the gun control argument. Yet, Chicago has some of the strictest gun control measures in the United States, rivaling Washington DC. One would have to be skeptical of the efficacy of strict gun control in Chicago.
The other issue that has arisen is providing more comprehensive mental health care and screening, to ensure that potential murderers were given care before they killed. In Rahm Emmanuel’s first budget, he trimmed a full half or the city’s mental health clinics as a cost saving measure. So in the years that mental health services became more scarce, we had a 23% increase in murder in Chicago, but we were still restricting guns at a record pace.
Let’s now turn our focus to who is murdered. In the past two decades, over an average of 70% of murder victims in Chicago were African American. Another 17% were Hispanic.
In Chicago, Illinois, where our President lives and votes, they have the strictest gun control laws in the country, and have just cut mental health services in half, and where that President’s first White House Chief of Staff is now Mayor, and has championed this policy, the rate of murder has increased by 23% in the first year, and those murdered were 87% black and Hispanic.
This should make an educated and compassionate reader ask, “Is gun control racist, or are those who espouse it as their major way of controlling violent crime racists?”
Tagged as: Chicago, Gun Control, Murder, Obama, racism
Is Suggesting Gun Control Racist?
by Chip Jones on January 2, 2013
As 2012 drew to a close, our President has renewed his attempts to strengthen gun control legislation nationally. But as one looks empirically at locations where there is the most stringent gun control, we almost always find the highest murder rate.
That being said, we hardly ever look at who is murdered. Let’s use the President’s home town of Chicago as an example. One would think that he would learn best in his own back yard, and where his long time political friend and ex Chief of Staff is Mayor. Let’s look at the record of firearms limitation in Chicago.
When Rahm Emmanuel took office as Mayor of Chicago in mid 2011, the murder rate had hit a modern era low of 433. In his first full year in office, 2012, murders spiked to 532, amounting to a 23% increase in total numbers of murders. As we look at the centerpieces of the national debate that has ensued after the Newtown, CT school shooting, two main themes have emerged. The first one is the gun control argument. Yet, Chicago has some of the strictest gun control measures in the United States, rivaling Washington DC. One would have to be skeptical of the efficacy of strict gun control in Chicago.
The other issue that has arisen is providing more comprehensive mental health care and screening, to ensure that potential murderers were given care before they killed. In Rahm Emmanuel’s first budget, he trimmed a full half or the city’s mental health clinics as a cost saving measure. So in the years that mental health services became more scarce, we had a 23% increase in murder in Chicago, but we were still restricting guns at a record pace.
Let’s now turn our focus to who is murdered. In the past two decades, over an average of 70% of murder victims in Chicago were African American. Another 17% were Hispanic.
In Chicago, Illinois, where our President lives and votes, they have the strictest gun control laws in the country, and have just cut mental health services in half, and where that President’s first White House Chief of Staff is now Mayor, and has championed this policy, the rate of murder has increased by 23% in the first year, and those murdered were 87% black and Hispanic.
This should make an educated and compassionate reader ask, “Is gun control racist, or are those who espouse it as their major way of controlling violent crime racists?”
Tagged as: Chicago, Gun Control, Murder, Obama, racism
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