{"id":33344,"date":"2012-12-22T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33344"},"modified":"2012-12-22T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T16:22:47","slug":"they-just-dont-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33344","title":{"rendered":"They just don’t see it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Post<\/a> reports that “Chicago grapples with gun violence; murder toll soars” without looking at the real and obvious problem in Chicago;<\/p>\n

Since Jan. 1, Chicago police have recorded 2,364 shooting incidents and 487 homicides, 87 percent of them gun-related. Shootings have increased 12 percent this year and murders are up 19 percent.<\/p>\n

Young people are often targets. In the school year that ended in June, 319 Chicago public school students were shot, 24 of them fatally. The total does not include school-age children who had dropped out or were enrolled elsewhere.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the Newtown school shootings, as the nation talks anew of guns and the laws that regulate them, President Obama\u2019s adopted home town of Chicago is struggling to retake its most violent neighborhoods from the gunmen who shoot with impunity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country and yet gun crime filters through the legal barriers to the streets. Handguns were outlawed in the nation’s capitol in 1974, yet 2,000 guns are gathered up by cops there every year since.<\/p>\n

The article continues to run through the gun crime statistics of large American cities, failing to mention that guns are largely more regulated in those cities than they are in the rest of the country. No one commits gun crimes in West Virginia or Vermont because criminals don’t know when, in these states, they might run into someone else legally carrying a gun. That’s not a problem in Chicago, New York or Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

One puzzle is that gun violence has remained high in Chicago while the incidence of other crimes has fallen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Puzzle? Really? It’s only a puzzle if you’re doing your level best to avoid an actual workable solution and unable to admit that you’ve been wrong for the last 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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