"O'Come, O'Come Rahm Emanuel. I am sure there is some logical explanation. Of course there is. You are all incompetent morons". MC
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CHICAGO - There were 192 shootings
in Chicago throughout the month of November – a 49 percent increase
from a year earlier – according to police records obtained by the
Chicago Tribune.
In November of 2011, Chicago recorded 129 shootings compared to the
192 shootings this November. Police records also reveal that shootings
increased more than 11 percent in the first 11 months of 2012 compared
with a year earlier.
Total homicides in Chicago rose to 480 for the first eleven months of
2012; a 21 percent increase from last year. On November 30, 2012,
there were four fatal shootings within the city. These murders brought
the homicide total to 38 for the month, just above the 37 recorded in
November of last year.
Despite having some of the strictest
gun laws in the country, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans on
restricting gun ownership further by banning individuals with a violent
misdemeanor conviction from getting a gun permit for five years. The
mayor also hopes to ban convicted felons from ever owning a gun.
Emanuel's intentions are no doubt well intentioned, but like many
cities with strict gun laws, the disarming of law-abiding citizens
doesn't remove guns from the hands of those who wish to do harm. On the
contrary, it often leaves innocent victims vulnerable to criminals.
CNSNews.com previously reported
that a gun-rights group said that Mayor Emanuel bears some
responsibility for the murder rate because of the strict gun-control
laws there:
"Rahm Emanuel has some blood on his hands," said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in a statement.
"He and the city council have done everything possible to prevent
law-abiding Chicago residents from exercising their restored Second
Amendment rights in the two years since the Supreme Court's landmark
McDonald ruling."
In June 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against a handgun ban in the city of Chicago in
McDonald v. Chicago.
Four days later however, the Chicago City Council adopted the Responsible Gun Owners Ordinance.
This requires prospective gun owners to take a firearm safety course
at a gun range in order to obtain a permit to own a gun in a home. The
city also placed a virtual ban on gun ranges.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says that
the Chicago City Council has been blocking Chicagoans from
obtaining handguns and range-training; the result being that law-abiding
citizens are left defenseless.
