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12/28/2005 Entry: "Gang members outnumber police 5 to 1 in Chicago."
Gang members outnumber police 5 to 1 in Chicago. Last year Chicago has the highest homocide rate. Its pretty sad the gang problem is so bad here it makes the BBC's frontpage.
With an estimated 68,000 gang members in Chicago, the city's 13,000 police officers have a difficult and sometimes deadly task.So far this year there have been 430 murders.
That is a 40-year low, but still more than double the number of homicides in London, which has more than twice the population.
Replies: 4 comments
Funny how the cities with the MOST restrictive gun control laws have the highest murder rates. " When guns are outlawed only outlaws..." - You know the rest. Go NRA.
Posted by Keith R. @ 12/30/2005 03:57 AM CST
That doesnt make sense. London and all of England has no handguns thus the most restrictive gun control laws imaginable and their murder rate is tiny.
As far as Chicago goes, the handgun ban is useless when you can just go drive into the suburbs and buy one. Not to mention the gun saturated black market.
Posted by lowbot @ 12/30/2005 06:12 AM CST
States with stricter gun control rates usually are big cities with high crime anyway, like the big three LA, NY, and Chicago. Comparing them to states without major metro cities is being purposely disingenious.
London's murder rate is 2.1 per 100k. NYC is 16.8 (1998 data)
Go grind you axe somewhere else dude, you're posting under different names with the same IP:
65.210.142.68
(duplicate comments deleted)
I dont know whats wrong with the anti-control nuts. If they have a point to make then make it. Mass posting with different names to build some kind of fake majority is unconvincing and shows even they don't buy their own BS. Its kinda obvious on a site that gets almost no comments.
Posted by lowbot @ 12/30/2005 06:39 AM CST
The best part about this is the idea that this person has been using this tactic on multiple posts with different names on various sites and just now realized that he/she has made an ass out of themselves all over the internet. Go NRA!
Posted by Chipmonkey @ 12/30/2005 12:29 PM CST
