Obama's Hometown is Burning

Chicago is burning:

In the first 100 days of 2016, 857 people were victims of shootings in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune. There were 15 shootings on April 7 alone. The shootings are primarily just west and south of the city center.

The city is on pace to exceed the 2,988 shooting victims in 2015 as each month this year has exceeded the total number of shootings per month from the previous year. Every 2 hours and 48 minutes someone in the Windy City is shot.

Chicago has some of the nation's worst gun laws, erecting high barriers so ordinary citizens can't protect themselves from rampant gang violence. The Obama Administration's answer for this? Blame it on a neighboring state.

On Feb. 15, Valerie Jarrett, Chicago resident and senior adviser to President Obama, appeared on the “Steve Harvey Show” to discuss President Obama’s executive orders regarding personally owned firearms. Jarrett pushed Chicago’s gun violence on Indiana, stating “right next door you have Indiana” with its loose gun laws. People are buying guns in Indiana and selling them in the “streets of Chicago out of the back of a truck.”

Jarrett's explanation is an attempt to pass the buck to states that have more reasonable gun laws. Hillary Clinton is trying to use a similar tactic to smear Bernie Sanders, alleging that illegal guns from Vermont are being funneled into New York. But here's the thing. It is absolutely illegal ANYWHERE to buy guns out of the back of a truck. If that's what's happening, then what we have here is a total failure to enforce the law, in a state that has a whole lot of them. That begs the question: if this is true, what practical effect will more laws do to stem the violence when we can't even enforce the ones on the books.

The answer is none. What they will do is take guns out of the hands of citizens who have a constitutional right to defend themselves, while drug traffickers and other lowlives use illegal firearms to carry out their black market turf wars. As we're seeing here, when guns are against the law, only outlaws have guns.

Source: AAN