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Only strong federal laws will end widespread gun violence (barf alert)
Chicago S-T ^ | Devereaux Peters

Posted on 10/26/2018 6:29:37 AM PDT by rellimpank

Devereaux Peters

I live in Chicago, not “Chiraq.” Chicago is my city, and I love it. Calling it Chiraq is an insulting, misguided attempt to describe and to cast blame for the gun violence that plagues us. Instead of constantly trying to use my city as a scapegoat when violence occurs, we need to recognize that gun violence is a national issue and not just a local one.

As a kid, I developed my professional grit playing basketball at the South Side and Austin YMCA. I watched the sun rise every morning while driving up Lake Shore Drive on my way to school in Oak Park. Chicago is a work of art, from Harold’s Chicken to the Frank Lloyd Wright houses. When I bought my first home, there was never a question that it would not be in South Shore.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; rlba
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To: rellimpank

Fake news, there are a lots of strict gun laws. The Criminal laws are the weak link.


21 posted on 10/26/2018 6:45:25 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: rellimpank

Doesn’t Chicago already have some of the strictest gun control laws you dumba$$ ???

(not you rellimpank-the author)


22 posted on 10/26/2018 6:45:31 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: rellimpank
Only strong federal laws will end widespread gun violence (barf alert)

We already have a strong Federal Law that is being ignored - it's against the law TO KILL SOMEONE !

What other law can top that one ? So it's obvious that the real goal is to get rid of guns all together.

23 posted on 10/26/2018 6:46:22 AM PDT by Mopp4
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To: Texas Eagle

He’s referring to the west side neighborhood of Austin, not the Texan bastion of liberalism. It borders Oak Park, and is a war zone.


24 posted on 10/26/2018 6:47:55 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: Mouton

Back to public punishments:

Canings for property crimes.
Stocks for mid level crimes.
Hangings for murder, torture, kidnapping, child sexual abuse. Those above get to watch.
Do this every Saturday at noon in town squares all over America.

Criminal’s photos on a perp website.
No perks in jails or prisons. Back to chain gangs.


25 posted on 10/26/2018 6:48:02 AM PDT by polymuser (ItÂ’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: rellimpank

Basketball been belly belly good to me.


26 posted on 10/26/2018 6:48:32 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: rellimpank

If you live even near Chicago, run, run now! Get the hell out of there you idiot!


27 posted on 10/26/2018 6:49:43 AM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: BlueLancer

—yeah——they are right up there with people who pantomime in front of a blue screen as far as being “experts” on everything—


28 posted on 10/26/2018 6:50:05 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: rellimpank

By similar logic, only women wearing burkas will end rape...


29 posted on 10/26/2018 6:51:20 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: rellimpank

The “strong federal law” that would do the most towards eliminating violent crime would be one to outlaw the DemocRat Party.


30 posted on 10/26/2018 6:52:20 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: rellimpank

“The answers for Chicago, Florence, Sutherland Springs, and the rest of the country will come with federal legislation that requires universal background checks, that bans assault rifles and high capacity magazines, targets gun trafficking across state lines, and disarms all domestic abusers.”

And the government will do just as good a job keeping illegal guns from flooding across our borders as they did keeping out booze during Prohibition, and keeping out illegal drugs and illegal aliens


31 posted on 10/26/2018 6:55:48 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: shelterguy

You don’t aim a loaded gun at another human being unless that’s your last, best hope to preserve your life or someone else’s.

When we all seemed to understand that principle gun violence was a tiny fraction of what it is now.


32 posted on 10/26/2018 6:56:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rellimpank

He’s right, but not in the way he thinks.

Most murders are committed by people who already have a criminal history. You reduce murders by taking chronic criminals off the street.


33 posted on 10/26/2018 6:56:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: MNJohnnie
Gun Control works in China because the have some of the most strongly guarded boarders in the world and a government that for over 50 years has totally controlled every aspect of the lives of the Chinese people

The measure of gun control "working" is the total murder rate. Gun control does not work in China. Gun control does not work anywhere. The number of guns in a society has no relationship to murder rates.

34 posted on 10/26/2018 6:56:55 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: rellimpank

Roughly 60% of gun deaths are suicide leaving roughly 12000 gun deaths for other reasons; negligent discharge, self defense, murder, etc. The urban sections of just 5 major US cities that have been run by democratic for the past 40 years account for approximately 40% of these deaths. SO IT IS NOT A NATIONAL PROBLEM.


35 posted on 10/26/2018 7:00:07 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: rellimpank

“we need to recognize that gun violence is a national issue and not just a local one.”

It’s not a problem where I live. Therefore this is not a national problem.

The inner city needs to be patient. With all the feel good liberal programs we just need to give them another 3 or 4 generations and it will all come together.


36 posted on 10/26/2018 7:00:13 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: rellimpank
....we need to recognize that gun violence is a national issue and not just a local one.


37 posted on 10/26/2018 7:02:05 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rellimpank

Turn the country into one giant Leftist government run prison.


38 posted on 10/26/2018 7:13:38 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s the last thing they want, we wouldn’t need them or big government.


39 posted on 10/26/2018 7:19:23 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: rellimpank

He’s almost poetic for a spineless, jellyfish, soy-boy.


40 posted on 10/26/2018 7:22:38 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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