Evidently, the 7th Circus Court of Appeals has upheld Chicago's idiotic ban on handguns under the logic that the 2nd Amendment was not incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment.
Despite the fact, of course, that this was one of the first things the 14th Amendment did, as it was intended to prevent former Confederate states from refusing firearm ownership to freed slaves. If you doubt this, see Akhil Reed Amar's book on the subject.
I'm sending a note to my Congressman asking for the removal of these judges. There is a point where judicial activism such as this becomes "bad conduct" that warrants their removal.
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2005 in the city of Chicago there were 449 homicides. 75% of the crimes were committed with firearms (336 of them). So it would seem to me that the ban has been working.
Numbers of murders (homicides) in Chicago per year:
1990: 851
1991: 927
1992: 943
1993: 931
1994: 929
1995: 827
1996: 789
1997: 759
1998: 704
1999: 641
2000: 628
2001: 666
2002: 647
2003: 601
2004: 448
2005: 449
2006: 468
2007: 445
2008: 510
The firearms ban is working, hence 75% of the murders are committed with them?
Seems to be a wee little problem with your logic, as obviously they're not getting guns out of the hands of murderers.
Now let's do a little more here; there are about three million people in Chicago, hence a murder rate of about 14/100,000.
The national rate is about 5/100,000, and in counties that voted for George W. Bush in 2000, the murder rate is about 2/100,000.
So we either have to assume that big city politics. liberalism, or firearm bans actually cause murder then, don't we?
Interesting as well that you don't show the data from 1982, the year the ban was enacted. I'll also give another explanation for the reduction since 1994; that's when welfare reform started to happen. People getting "the check" suddenly had something to do besides wait for the check and commit crimes.
Somewhat later, Chicago (finally) adopted New York's computerized crime mapping system--quickly reducing murder by a third by actually putting cops where crimes were occurring.
Sorry, you lose. You have posited a monovariant analysis of a system that is clearly significantly multivariant.
Whoa - I made a tongue in cheek comment. I guess adding the number of homicides didn't reflect I was being a smart ass.
DC defended heller saying that the 2A only applied to states.
now, they say the 2A doesnt apply to states.
any excuse will do when you try to viloate the law.
I'll clarify that, then, Jeremy; sometimes this blogger needs a smiley face, as I've received multiple comments of that type which are serious.
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