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Gun Control & RKBA

gejohnston

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18. the FBI

Reply to robotevil (Reply #17)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 12:22 AM

Sep 2013

http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-murder-capital-of-america-fbi-142122290.html
it is total number not per capita.

Think Progress is has one thing wrong: Chicago is proof that gun prohibition doesn't work. Guns have been regulated on the state level since the founding, and the federal level since the 1920s. OK, it has a couple of things wrong. Gang members and drug dealers don't go to the local legal gun store, They don't get IL FOIDs and they don't go to gun shows or stores in the next state either (which would be a federal crime and would be detected when doing BGC and inventory control forms the ATF inspects when ever they feel like it.)

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Seems like laws against carrying guns are falling apart in Illinois.. [View all] virginia mountainman Sep 2013 OP

It's a shame, because Chicago's gun laws had been working so well Pullo Sep 2013 #1

That's why we have a very low crime rate. AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #2

Do the politicians wish they had NOT been so overreaching in their gun control laws? Not a chance. AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #3

This post is a good example of a post that shouldn't be on DU coldmountain Sep 2013 #4

Don't you think you should get more time under your belt hack89 Sep 2013 #6

Welcome to our little Teabagger corner of DU Starboard Tack Sep 2013 #7

There isn't a debate just propagandizing of rightwing talking points coldmountain Sep 2013 #8

Exactly. That's why I said "practice" Starboard Tack Sep 2013 #9

Yes because no true Democrat supports the RKBA Pullo Sep 2013 #11

Yup. Not a one, not a single true Democrat supports the RKBA as an individual right. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #13

Just a couple of weeks ago being anti-war was a RW talking point. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #12

By all means, go tell Skinner quickly, there's a forum for people like you - Ask The Administrators DonP Sep 2013 #10

Actually, you can complain here, Bansalot, ATA, and in GD. An embarassment of riches. Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #16

Yes, we should not have been so progressive and hoped the NRA Angel of Death passed over our houses. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2013 #5

Only thing to pass over my house recently was a flock of busy-boweled grackles. Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #15

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Seriously? It takes two fucking seconds to check wikipedia. robotevil Sep 2013 #17

the FBI gejohnston Sep 2013 #18

Post removed Post removed Sep 2013 #19