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Chicago’s Newly Armed Residents Send Murder Rate Plummeting (Video)
via BizPac Review
Murders in the Windy City have plummeted since the Illinois legislature enacted its concealed weapon carry law, and the state Supreme Court upheld a person’s right to carry firearms outside the home.
The Chicago Police Department posted the city’s 2014 first quarter crime figures Tuesday, indicating the lowest number of homicides since 1958, according to local ABC affiliate Eyewitness 7 News, which reported:
“The first three months of the year saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013–a 9 percent drop–and 55 fewer murders than 2012, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
There were 90 fewer shootings and 119 fewer shooting victims, drops of 26 and 29 percent respectively, according to police statistics. Compared to the first quarter of 2012, there have been 222 fewer shootings and 292 fewer shooting victims.”
This is fantastic news and couldn’t be happening in a better city. Chicago is a great place for this to be occuring because it is such a huge city. To me, this is more proof that guns do save lives. Guns are not the problem, people are the problem, policy is the problem, prisons are the problem. If you want to fix something you dont leave it in the garage to rust and fall apart right? You engage with it, you change its parts, you apply a different way to run it and you set it loose.
As good of news as this is, the Chicago PD are saying something else, something your not going to like:
