[Second Amendment First]

“At the end of the day, any legislation restricting guns, period, is difficult to do in Missouri, because it’s: ‘I need to be able to carry a gun in St. Louis to defend myself,’ ”

The reason I carry in St Louis, and never enter Illinois period.

[dirtboy]

But a New York Times article on Tuesday noted that St. Louis police are contending with a factor that their counterparts in many other high-crime cities are not: exceedingly lax gun laws.

And that is why Chicago has such a low murder rate - tight gun laws.

Oops, the opposite is the case.

Liberals - never letting the facts get in the way of their opinions.

[econjack]

Statistically, the black-on-black murder rate is the highest ethnic rate in the US. I wonder if there has been a study that correlates the proportion of blacks in an SMSA with the murder rate. That would be interesting to know.

[Zhang Fei]

St Louis has double Chicago’s murder rate (35 per 100K vs 19 per 100K population). Chicago PD has 50 cops per sq mile. St Louis has 20. I suspect that accounts for the lion’s share of the difference.

[Zhang Fei]

Blacks who are, on average, more crime-prone, are 50% of St Louis’s population, but only 33% of Chicago’s population. So that’s another factor accounting for St Louis’s higher murder rate.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The way the Mississippi River tends to meander from its course....it could happen someday.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

St Louis should move to Illinois? I’ll go them one better: all the Democrats in St Louis should move to Illinois, preferably to Chicago.

Chicago wouldn’t notice the difference and the murder rate and overall crime rate in St Louis would drop to next to nothing.

[BlueStateRightist]

Liberalism failed the residents of St. Louis. So let’s give them to Illinois for more of the same.

[Beagle8U]

D E M O G R A P H I C S.

You can’t change the world to make excuses and ignore the problem. Blacks have a culture problem, and it shows up in every statistic liberals whine about. They just refuse to link it to the problems.

[aquila48]

Though his logic sucks, I like his idea of moving all the libs to the same state(s).

[tacticalogic]

St. Louis would be better off in the long run if they’d blow up that bridge.

[stars & stripes forever]

Hey, we already have East St. Louis. Keep St. Louis where it is. :)

[submarinerswife]

Isn’t East St. Louis in Ill (although the two are separated by the Mississippi)? I know that every time I drove through on the interstate, I lock my doors at 70mph. East St. Louis is a nasty, nasty place.

[Gritty]

Criminologists point to all the usual reasons for the violence: a thriving drug trade, high unemployment among young men, and so on.

Why don't they point to the most obvious one,... a large population of feral blacks who have been brought up in a criminal, fatherless culture?

[scott7278]

This is such garbage - the police chief rightly blames (liberal) judges who give gun offenders a slap on the wrist with probation. There is a revolving door here, and in the recent spate of murders, every one of the killers should have been locked away already for committing crimes with weapons (armed robbery, assault, B&E, etc).

They are not punishing criminals using existing laws...and everyone is in danger because of it.