Obama majorette gunned down in park
A 15-year-old girl who performed at Barack Obama’s inauguration festivities is the latest name on the ever-increasing murder list in the president’s home town.
The city’s 42nd killing is part of Chicago’s bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 murders for the first time since 2008.
It also comes at a time when Mr Obama, spurred by the Connecticut school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws, though he faces ardent opposition from the National Rifle Association and its allies in Congress.
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Chicago has the “toughest” gun control laws in the country. Law-abiding citizens are already not allowed to protect themselves. Gun control advocates hope to give criminal gangs even more freedom to terrorize without fear for their personal safety.
Lemming-minded liberals have apparently all been instructed to counter the “Chicago has the toughest gun laws, but the worst murder rate” with “…that’s because they can go to the next state (or city) and buy a gun there”. Which makes me wonder why I don’t see anti-liberals making the point “they tried banning liquor, you recall–remember how that worked out (people ran liquor from Canada, the next country over, for example)”. Just a quick, “Remember Prohibition?”, is that too much to ask of Republicans?
I think that, as long as nations have easy access to weapons–arms dealing must be the world’s 2nd or 3rd oldest occupation–those who would deny law-abiding citizens access to guns have no moral leg to stand on.
If a gang member tried to pull out a gun in my neighborhood, he would look like Swiss Cheese. Guns are a deterrent – that is why we have armed guards in banks.