In the aftermath of the recent shooting in Colorado Springs by a crazed, old loner who lived in a shack without electricity or running water, President Obama seized on the tragedy not to mourn with the families of the victims, but instead to push one of his favorite topics, gun control.
Almost before the victims bodies were cold and anything was known about the shooter, Obama was already calling for additional background checks, limitations on the types of guns that should be allowed, and declaring “enough is enough!” And make no mistake, when Obama and the left call for greater gun control, they are talking about gun confiscation, not more accurate shooting.
But because facts to a liberal are like kryptonite is to Superman, Obama and his acolytes never mention what the effect is of turning towns and states into “gun-free” zones. In fact, it turns out that those are the very locations that criminals can be relatively certain they can act out their violent deeds without being confronted by armed citizenry who are able to stop the violence. Let’s take a look at one city that has very strict gun control laws and see if less crime and violence would be the likely outcome if extended to the rest of the nation.
Major city utilizing gun control to quell violence, page 2
Blame this on who controls everything that happens in Chicago . Cook County politicians are the ones to blame for this nightmsrre ! They would rather have innocent people filling body bags than having them being able to defend themseves af=gainst illegal gun toting criminals !! It doesnt bother them because they live in gated communities with armed guards ! Take those guns away from their guards and then see how quickly things change !
Yep
I WOULD FEEL REAL SAFE THERE
Stupid people never learn.
18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer
#1 Over the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39 percent during that time and “other crimes with firearms” are down 69 percent.
#2 A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.
#3 The nine European nations with the lowest rate of gun ownership rate have a combined murder rate that is three times greater than the nine European nation with the highest rate of gun ownership.
#4 Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws…
With just one exception, every public mass shooting in the USA since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns. Despite strict gun regulations, Europe has had three of the worst six school shootings.
#5 The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people.
#6 The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011. During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.
#7 Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.
#8 Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.
#9 The number of unintentional fatalities due to firearms declined by 58 percent between 1991 and 2011.
#10 Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States. In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK. In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year. Do we really want to be more like the UK?
#11 The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
#12 The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
#13 The UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU.
#14 The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
#15 Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted.
#16 The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. So has this reduced crime? Of course not. As I wrote about recently, the murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be “the deadliest global city“. If you can believe it, there were about as many murders in Chicago during 2012 as there was in the entire nation of Japan.
#17 After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years and there was an 89% decline in burglaries.
#18 According to Gun Owners of America, the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their own people during the 20th century. The vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their own governments prior to being slaughtered.
Hahahaha! Yeah right!
Poster city for the failure of gun control!!!
It’s Emanuel and obama’s homeland and they can’t control it even with their gun control laws. What makes him think that he can take all of our guns. He’d would have carnage like never before.
They wit the ‘ho Anna crackheads they ain’t going out in the streets wit a bunch of crazy niggas wit guns
Gun control city, city of evil.