Gun nut of the Hour Event.....for every day of the year

[sirs]

...Just head to Chicago....one of the strictest, most heavily regulated, "gun free" zones in the nation

[Xavier_Onassis]

Meaningless crapola. People simply buy guns elsewhere and bring them in.

This is a piss poor example from Breitbart and like most Breitbart crap, it is garbage.

[sirs]

Meaningless crapola. People simply buy guns elsewhere and bring them in.

ILLEGALLY.....AS IN THERE'S ALREADY GUN LAWS THAT CRIMINALS AREN'T TO CARRY OR TRANSPORT FIREARMS.  MOre gun laws and banning doesn't remove that happening, SINCE THEY'RE NOT OBEYING THE LAW TO BEGIN WITH.  With all the gun laws on the books, Federal, State, and City, one would think Chicago was the safest place in the country

A perfect example into the window of the ignorant

[Xavier_Onassis]

If the entire country restricted guns as Chicago does, and had done so for decades, then many fewer people would be shot.
The right wing likes to blather on and on about Chicago because Obama lived there.

Why not mention Honolulu? He lived there as well? but Hawaii restricts guns and it is very hard to bring them into the islands. It is where gun laws actually WORK.
So the ratbag right rants on and on about Chicago and ignores Hawaii.

More guns means more people get shot.

[Plane]

If the entire country restricted guns as Chicago does, and had done so for decades, then many fewer people would be shot.
The right wing likes to blather on and on about Chicago because Obama lived there.

Why not mention Honolulu? He lived there as well? but Hawaii restricts guns and it is very hard to bring them into the islands. It is where gun laws actually WORK.
So the ratbag right rants on and on about Chicago and ignores Hawaii.

More guns means more people get shot.

No.
Chicago gets mentioned because there is not a better contrast between a lot of gun regulation and large scale gun crimes.

    Obama rising to political prominence there is just gravy.

     If you were to put Chicago onto an island in the Pacific , it might be less difficult to restrict things that couldn't be built there.

     But Hawaii doesn't have the demand for guns that Chicago does either, and island Chicago might make guns very valuable by making the demand high, then smuggling picks up the difference.

    Hawaii is not just more isolated than Chicago, it also has a very different culture and thereby a low demand for guns.

Putting the population of an Hawaiian island onto the shores of a lake that freezes every year might be too cruel an experiment to try.

   But we might get a lot of Chicagoans to volunteer to settle an island in the tropics , just so we could learn whether they would bring their culture along. 

[sirs]

If the entire country restricted guns as Chicago does, and had done so for decades, then many fewer people would be shot.
The right wing likes to blather on and on about Chicago because Obama lived there.

Shall we make it Detroit instead?  DC?  NY?  It has nothing to do with where Obama lived.  It has everything to do with what's wrong with the notion more gun laws and "gun free zones"

Here's a better one, let's restrict your free speech some.  Let's say you can only criticize Republicans M, W, & F, and 1 weekend a month.  And before the circular deflective arguments start raining, yes, speech/words can kill too.  Many a riot has started with mere words, that has led to death and destruction.  Mass panics can also be started with mere words, leading to people being trampled and crushed.

Point being, that restricting a fundamental right we all have in this country, doesn't make it safer...except for a centralized government perhaps, while the rest of the citizenry is left to defend themselves with a spatula against thugs and nuts had had absolutely no intention of abiding by your asinine gun restrictions

Why not mention Honolulu? He lived there as well?

Because its an island, thousands of miles off the coast, makes it VERY hard to smuggle in illegal firearms

More guns means more people get shot.

And more guns in the hands of law abiding gun owners in the U.S., results in more lives being saved then taken.