This is impossible

Chicago is a gun free zone. Can it be that criminals don't obey the law? I wonder how many were killed with AR-15's? My guess would be zero.

Chicago now murder capital of U.S., FBI says

Move over New York, the Second City is now the murder capital of America.

According to new crime statistics released this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Chicago had more homicides in 2012 than any other city in the country. There were 500 murders in Chicago last year, the FBI said, surpassing New York City, which had 419.

In 2011, there were 515 homicides in the Big Apple, compared with the 431 in Chicago.

But as the Washington Post noted, residents of Chicago and New York were much less likely to be victims of a homicide than some Michigan residents. In Flint, for example, there were 63 killings — a staggering number when you consider Flint's population is 101,632 — "meaning 1 in every 1,613 city residents were homicide victims." In Detroit, where 386 killings occurred in 2012, 1 in 1,832 were homicide victims.

Guns were used in the vast majority of slayings in the United States last year. According to the FBI data, 69.3 percent involved a firearm.

Overall, violent crime — homicides and aggravated assaults — was up less than 1 percent in 2012, according to FBI data.

There was some good news in the report. The estimated number of burglaries declined 3.7 percent in 2012, and property crimes (down 0.9 percent) fell for the 10th straight year.

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Cities with the most homicides in 2012

1. Chicago | 500
2. New York | 419
3. Detroit | 386
4. Philadelphia | 331
5. Los Angeles | 299
6. Baltimore | 219
7. Houston | 217
8. New Orleans | 193
9. Dallas | 154
10. Memphis | 133
11. Oakland | 126
12. Phoenix | 124
13. St. Louis | 113
14. Kansas City | 105
15. Indianapolis | 101

Source: FBI

 

Note cities with the strictest gun control have the most crime;
Chicago, NY....................................................................

 

Ok, but which way does the causality go?

 

Seriously?

 

There is no causality between guns and crime. The causality is between gangs and crime.

According to FBI data, the US has over 1.4 million criminal gang members responsible for over 80% of all gun homicides.

 

1) Chicago's murders are concentrated in a small number of neighborhoods. The "problem" is "contained".
2) It could have been a lot worse if the Summer had been hotter. :eek:

 

It seems that wherever poverty strikes, so does the highest murder rates.

Russia, the back streets of Chicago, etc.

Perhaps the thing to do is to just start giving all of these poverty stricken people enough money to stop the killings...

 

Honest impoverished people can't afford guns maybe? Give every household a 9mm and a license to shoot anybody with a gang affiliation and violence would be way, way down when the smoke cleared.

 

Doubt this makes the national news. 13 people shot in one night isn't all that big of a deal round these parts.

CHICAGO (AP) — Thirteen people have been shot at a park on Chicago's southwest side, including a 3-year-old boy who was in critical condition, in what authorities say was likely a gang-related shooting.

Officer Amina Greer said the shooting occurred shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday.

A witness, Julian Harris, told the Chicago Sun-Times that dreadlocked men fired at him from a gray sedan before turning toward Cornell Square Park in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood and firing at people. He said his 3-year-old nephew was wounded in the cheek.

"They hit the light pole next to me, but I ducked down and ran into the house," Harris said. "They've been coming round here looking for people to shoot every night, just gang-banging stuff. It's what they do."

 

Dude, what is this bullshit with you and making up crap about Russia lately? Highest murder rates in Russia?

Please show your statistics that are causing you to make this statement.