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Chicago’s population includes ~850,000 blacks. In 2016, Chicago had 762 murders, over 85% black victims. That puts the AA murder rate in Chicago at about 1/1300. Figure most of the victims were 17–35. Figure that age cohort is ~25% of the overall AA population. The murder rate for blacks...

You seem to miss the point of laws entirely. Wow. We have laws against killing people. They don’t stop it from happening. They do present consequences, however. Killing people - with or without a gun - is already illegal (save justification). Laws proscribe non-consensual activity, for...

Anyone here old enough to remember Ben Wilson?

Interviewer: Mr Friedman, how do account for there being extraordinarily low poverty in Scandinavia? Mr. Friedman: It’s interesting. In America, there is also extraordinarily low poverty amongst people of Scandinavian descent.

This is just wrong. Chicago’s gun homicide rate is not comparable to most parts of Illinois, or Illinois generally ex Chicago. Moreover, ‘Chicago’ is just a line on a map. The violent crime rate amongst a subset of Chicago is astronomical. War zone astronomical. Look up the size of the...

Rght. Because the government has been so effective at keeping things out that they ban. It’s amazig that pot, cole and heroin are available. If only they banned them. Meanwhile, there are plenty of areas of Florida that have low gun violence despite gun availability. B b b buttttt Indiana...

The sad thing is, this country is freer and more prosperous than any other before it. And it was built on the Constitution. Yet fancy elites, with no shame and massive arrogance, announce that the Constitution is the problem. It’s insane. The Constitution is the solution. Elites who don’t...

The only people the Constitution doesn’t matter to are those who want to disregard it. To them, it’s in the way amd an anachronism. And I see no need to dive from gun control to your other political fantasies, but suffice to say, it’s not the Republicans who want to do away with the...

Lolol. Good to know what you ‘feel.’ Do you ‘feel’ the Constitution still matters?

You should learn the difference between cause and effect if you are going to cite those statistics in support of your proposition.

So we should take away everyone’s fundamental freedoms because of the 1960s? Government continues to make many things worse, moreover. Not better.

It’s ‘selfish’ to want your rights to be respected? Perhaps. I guess it’s also selfish to want free speech, privacy, due process ... all those things. Good point. We should just sacrifice ourselves to whatever fancy ideas other people become attached to. Because you say so. Also, you and...

Great. If only we could get rid of non-Japanese people in the United States, then build walls on our borders that are as hard to cross as the ocean around Japan, then we could finally be more like Japan! In the meantime, let’s just fantasize about having a government so big and powerful it...

You’re just wrong. I am pointing out that gun laws don’t cause gun violence, as you can see from all the places with gun stores and little gun violence. I suppose you can hypothesized that if only we had a totalitarian government that banned all guns everywhere, then we’d all be safe from...

Depends on what you label the problem as. It’s easy, shallow and wrong to label the problem as gun violence. That’s a symptom, not a disease. No doubt elites like to label it that way because it allows them to propose ‘solutions’ that appeal to their sensibilities and have nothing to do with...

Right, because censorship is the solution to insanity. Makes perfect sense.

What about Wilmette, IL? Or Buffalo Grove? Northbrook? Oakbrook? Highland Park? Or Grand Rapids WI? Or Carmel, IN? See, you’re being selective. Gun freedoms are generally applicable. Gun violence is concentrated. Logically, the violence isn’t caused by gun laws, or it would be far more...

If that’s the issue, then why does the violence show up so much more in Chicago than in these surrounding states whose laws you dislike? If only criminals would obey the law, we could just outlaw criminality! Then everything would be great.

No need to make this a political thread. Chicago has every gun law you could want, and more murders. It ain’t about that.