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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Chicago has implemented a near total ban on all guns within the city limits. The ONLY guns allowed have been those that were registered before the ban in 1986 and most of those have been confiscated. Now HOW does a city, with a near total ban on all guns, become murder capital of the world?
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This is what we need to be discussing. The answer is: gangs, drugs, guns. You can ban guns all you want, but gangs aren't exactly law-abiding citizens. (Consider that hardcore drugs are banned, too.) You might wonder where these thugs get guns if not in Chicago. Well, the drugs come from much further. Gun control cannot be that effective if it is a city-wide initiative alone. It needs to be conducted from the federal level. Toronto's own spike in gun-related deaths has led mayor David Miller to call out for a ban on all hand guns. This won't have much of an effect unless the prime minister takes initiative and makes it so across Canada.
This brings up another issue; namely, the problem with what is likely to be the source of most of the illegal guns in Canada: the U.S. Ultimately, for Canadians, this is not just a municipal policing issue... it goes as far as being an international issue. But as far as Chicago is concerned, if it wants to avoid such a title as being the murder capital (as it has in the recent past), it will need to pressure the rest of the country into developing a gun-control strategy that will act as a dose of sanity.