As always, Steve Chapman has a very useful article on this subject:
Here is the part that I liked best:
If there are too many guns in Chicago, it's not because of any statutory oversight. The city has long outlawed the sale and possession of handguns. It also forbids assault weapons. If prohibition were the answer, no one would be asking the question ... Gun control hasn't worked as a remedy for crime. So what makes anyone think the answer is more gun control?
Here is the part that I liked best:
It has done so despite the alleged problem cited by Weis, which is the availability of guns, and particularly one type of gun. "There are just too many weapons here," he declared at a Sunday news conference. "Why in the world do we allow citizens to own assault rifles?"
Actually, in Chicago, "we" don't allow citizens to own assault rifles. Elsewhere, they are allowed for the same reason other firearms are permitted. The gun Weis villainized is a type of semiautomatic that has a fearsome military appearance but is functionally identical to many legal sporting arms.
And its bark is worse than its bite. As of March 31, there had been 87 homicides in the city. When I asked the Chicago Police Department how many of the murders are known to have involved assault rifles, the answer came back: One.
Related Posts
Are private gun buy-backs legal?This is ironic. Gun laws so complicated that well-meaning, if very misguided, people doing these buy-backs may have co- Only three states will still have a one gun a month lawSouth Carolina repealed its one-gun-a-month law in 2004. My research in More Guns, Less Crime didn't find any harm from
- Washington Examiner piece: "Ask Canada -- gun registration won't make D.C. safer"My piece with Gary Mauser in the Washington Examiner starts this way:The D.C. Council will soon vote on a new law that
- Rahm Emanuel says the residency rules for running for office be damned if they don't work for himApparently there is an exception in the residency law if the president gives you a job offer."Fundamentally, when a pre
- Comments on my debate with Adam Winkler on KPCC last weekThe audio of the show discussing the Seal Beach shooting in California is available here starting at the 47:15 minute m
My Newest Post at BigGovernment: "Media Matters’ Potentially Lethal Distortions on Guns"My piece starts this way:Everyone wants to keep guns away from criminals, but gun control advocates, such as Media Matt
Steve Chapman on Chicago's Gun Control
4/
5
Oleh
abudzar
