See what gun laws do in Chicago!
Rahm Emanuel's gang violence problem leaves dozens dead from baseball bats
By Michael Thompson, January 10th, 2013.
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Plus - comment from Charles Heller, JPFO Excutive Director
In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama has renewed a charge to enact sweeping gun control legislation and Vice President Joe Biden has said using an executive order would be an appropriate way to address the issue.
And Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., plans to introduce a bill in Congress "to stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices."
It's her direct response to the claim an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon was used in the school shooting in Newtown.
But lost in the debate on gun control is the situation in Chicago, Ill., run by Obama's friend Rahm Emanuel, where gang violence primarily in the black and Hispanic communities led to the murders of 506 in 2012.
In a city with some of the toughest gun control laws in America, Fox News reported that Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy "acknowledged aiming at assault weapons misses the mark when dealing with Chicago's gang violence. The weapon used is generally a handgun and rarely is it purchased through legal channels."
A WND.com review of the Chicago Police Department Murder Analysis reports, from 2003-2011, provides a statistical breakdown of the manners in which people were murdered in Chicago.
During that period, 4,251 people were murdered in Chicago; 3,371 died from being shot, with 98 percent of the murder weapons being a handgun. Thirty-seven people were killed with a rifle (caliber of bullet not specified) and 40 were killed with a shotgun.
In 27 of the murders, the type of gun used could not be determined by the Chicago Police Department.
Eight-point-seven percent of people murdered in Chicago were stabbed to death; 7 percent of the people murdered in Chicago between 2003-2011 died from what the Chicago Police Department classifies as "assault"; 92 people were killed by strangulation; 27 people by blunt force; 15 by asphyxiation; and 51 people were categorized in the "other" category by the Chicago Police Department.
A closer look at the instruments used in some of the 4,251 murders between 2003-2011 reveals:
♦ In 2011, one person was killed with a pocketknife; one a baseball bat; and one was asphyxiated with pry bar.
♦ In 2010, three people were killed with a kitchen knife, two with a baseball bat, one with a wooden board, one with rope/cordage, and one with gasoline (burning).
♦ In 2009, a pocketknife was used as the murder weapon once, as well as a concrete block/brick and baseball bat. Clothing was also used once in a strangulation murder.
♦ In 2008, a baseball bat was used twice, clothing once, and gasoline once as murder weapons.
♦ In 2007, a baseball bat was used twice, as well as a pipe being used twice in murders. A hammer was used four times. An electrical/phone cord was used once.
♦ In 2006, a baseball bat was used four times.
♦ In 2005, a screwdriver was used twice, a baseball four times, a bottle once, a hammer once, and clothing once.
♦ In 2004, a screwdriver was used once, a baseball bat seven times; a pipe, a tire iron, a bottle, and a concrete block/brick were all used once apiece. A pillow and an electrical/phone cord were also used once.
♦ In 2003, a screwdriver and pocketknife were used once; a bottle, pipe, and handgun (used as a blunt weapon), concrete block/brick were used once. A baseball bat was used four times as a weapon in murder.
Fewer than 1 percent of the murders in Chicago between 2003-2011 were with what the Chicago Police Department classifies as a "rifle," which is what an AR-15 would be classified.
Over the period of time, 31 people were murdered with a baseball bat in Chicago, which is almost comparable to the rate at which "rifles" were used as a murder weapon over the same period of time.
A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Heller, Executive Director of JPFO. © JPFO 2013.
A SOARING HOMICIDE RATE IN CHICAGO: This city's 471st homicide of 2012 occurred at mid day, in a crowd, on the steps of the church where the victim of homicide 463 was being remembered.
Sherman Miller, who was 21, was struck by gunfire near the hearse waiting to carry away the body of James Holman, 32, a previous weeks murder victim.
The funeral shooting at the South Side St. Columbanus Catholic Church, left neighbors wondering if no place, not even a church, was safe any longer.
"It's become the Wild Wild West," said Charles Childs Jr., who had watched from across the street as mourners screamed and scattered.
The shooting, Nov. 26, showed just how common killings have grown on the streets of Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, where 506 homicides were reported in 2012, a 16 percent increase over the year before, even as the number of killings remained relatively steady or dropped in some cities, including New York.
Chicago is the City where possession of most guns, and carrying of any gun outside the home, is forbidden for the ordinary citizen. In short, it is a giant, disarmed victim zone.
Conversely, in the REAL "Wild West," where guns are common and no permit is required for one, and guns are not registered, Phoenix Arizona had a 2010 murder rate of 8.02 people per 100,000 population, while Chicago had a 2010 rate of 15.65 er 100,000. One is left to wonder the true purpose of "gun control."
Charles Heller
