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But, doesn't gun control stop criminals from getting guns?

Chicago: 82 shootings, 14 fatalities, over July 4th Weekend

By Robert Laurie ——--July 8, 2014

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Despite a January federal court ruling which overturned Chicago's ban on gun sales, it's still technically impossible to legally purchase a gun within the city. The reason? Rahm Emanuel and Alderman Will Burns have replaced the city's outright ban with a raft of heavy handed regulations - all designed to keep gun dealers from setting up shop.
From the AP:
"Aldermen also listed some of the provisions — which will almost certainly trigger a legal challenge — including a requirement that all gun sales be videotaped, another that gun owners open their books for inspection by police, and restrictions on where the shops can go that prohibit them in 99.5 percent of the city by confining sales to specific areas and prohibiting stores within 500 feet of schools and parks."
Congratulations, Chicago! Thanks to Rahm's war on legal firearm ownership, your streets are a peaceful, gun-free, oasis in a violet nation where every law-abiding citizen is a potential murderous psychopath. Oh wait. According to the Chicago Tribune, the July 4th weekend gave you the worst round of gun violence "this year."
In all, at least 82 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, since Thursday afternoon when two woman were shot as they sat outside a two-flat within a block of Garfield Park. Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns. Many of the long weekend's shootings were on the South Side, clustered in the Englewood, Roseland, Gresham and West Pullman neighborhoods that rank among the most violent in the city. The victims ranged from the 14-year-boy shot by police in the Old Irving Park neighborhood to a 66-year-old woman grazed in the head as she walked up the steps of her porch on the Far South Side. Most victims were in their late teens and 20s. Each night of the long holiday weekend, at least a dozen people were shot in the greatest burst of gun violence Chicago has seen this year.

Is it possible that the problem isn't the gun, but the thug holding it?

Hang on. Chicago has had a ban on gun sales for years and, when it was finally struck down, they replaced it with a slew of anti-gun regulations that basically amount to another ban. Yet, for some reason, they're still facing a wave of violence that dwarfs anything seen in far less-regulated cities? How can that be? Could it be that these guns were obtained illegally? Is it possible that the problem isn't the gun, but the thug holding it? Are progressives ready to admit that banning legal sales has done nothing to stem the tidal wave of crime in their glorious anti-gun Mecca? Nah. Of course not. They're just whining that they need more control. On the mean streets of Rahm's Chicago, murderers with illegal guns aren't the problem. People who want to defend their families and their property? That has to be stopped. The Chicago way.

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