Chicago Still Suffering the Effects of Unreal Gun Control

Aug 25, 2015 | 0 comments

Chicago’s Severe Gun Laws Encourage Criminals By Rendering The Public Defenseless

Via NBC Chicago

At least six people have died and another 35 have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening. In the weekend’s first fatal shooting, an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy got into a street fight with another man at about 6:15 p.m. in the 3800 block of West Lexington, police said.No one is in custody for the shooting.

A 42-year-old man was shot while driving just after 8:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of North Lamon Avenue. Someone opened fire on the man’s vehicle, shooting the driver multiple times, police said. The man’s car crashed into a parked car nearby and he was pronounced dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds to the body.

This news story continues with a huge list of shooting incidents that involved gang shootings and more senseless violence. The shootings included many innocent people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time and many of these cases will result in no perpetrators being arrested. The shooters will skip away with their still-smoking stolen guns to commit another crime elsewhere.

Ever since Chicago’s gun laws were declared unconstitutional and the General Assembly grudgingly approved a concealed-carry law in 2013, concealed carry permits have increased little by little. However, even though Chicago’s concealed permits have been reported as increasing in numbers, the overall percentage of carriers is still below .5% of the population.

The more concealed carriers the better, that has been proven in several studies… Chicago can’t keep sitting on it’s hands as more and more citizens are killed in situations that could have been prevented. It all comes back to the walls put up in legislature to prevent law-abiding citizens from acquiring firearms and ultimately defending themselves with guns.

It all comes back to the light punishment for criminals that are eventually caught and the fact that politicians and those influencing the laws are targeting guns as the problem. This article highlights some of these issues.

In a news release, McCarthy noted police have seized over 3,300 illegal firearms so far this year, but said many gun offenders quickly return to the street because sentences for those caught carrying illegally are too lax.”Our efforts will continue unabated until all Chicagoans gain the same sense of security, but better laws are needed to reduce the proliferation of illegal guns in our communities,” Chicago’s top cop continued.

These laws will not prove to keep criminals from getting guns, but will make it even more difficult and ludicrous for a law abiding citizen to buy one. No matter what laws are put into place on gun control, criminals will always have access to guns.

Common sense seems to be lacking in Chicago’s gun laws as everyone knows the definition of a criminal is a person who refuses to abide by the law! Most gun crimes are committed by those with illegal or stolen firearms, and those who aren’t afraid to break the law to get what they want, even if that means murdering an innocent victim.

When is Chicago going to get the fact that defensive gun use happens EVERY day, multiple times! Citizens need to be armed! More criminals will think twice before committing a crime if they know they could be killed or deterred by a citizen carrying a gun. Lives are saved, people refuse to be victims by arming themselves, and criminals are faced with the question if breaking the law is worth being shot.