"Dear Thug ... Please Be Law Abiding" ... Report: Chicago To Fight Gun Violence With Letters

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[Right Wing Assault]

They don’t want to offend their pals.

[marktwain]

The news accounts are not doing a very good job of reporting on this program. Everything that I have read about these efforts is that they work. The letter is just one part of the program, where the emphasis is on the very small number of violent people who cause most of the violent crime and homicides. Here is a link telling how these work.
The NRA teamed with similar programs in project Exile:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/may/12/david-m-kennedy-another-kind-of-gun-control/

The emphasis should always be on the bad guys instead of on the guns.

[peeps36]

He studied Chicago murders for 5 years but he never spent one minute with the people who live in the area. It sounds like the typical liberal professor who preaches from the safety of his ivory towers. Only someone as smart as the professor would send letters to people who can't read. He must be a genius.