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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 2897" data-source="post: 402406"><p>To put numbers behind your reply, here is some data:</p><p>Per Capita Gun Murder Rate, Total Gun Murders:</p><p>Alabama, 17.8, 854</p><p>Illinois, 8.67, 1,109. Chicago (bans guns) has a gun murder rate of 15.5, which means of the 1,109 murders in the entire state, 420 were just from the city limits. Illinois is 58,000 square miles. Chicago is 234 square miles. So 38% of the shootings happen within 0.4% of the state.</p><p></p><p>Should we be trying to reduce gun violence? Absolutely. Should we be trying to keep our kids and communities safe? Absolutely. But we need to make rational evidence-based decisions on what we do, not make public policy based on our political views and spend inordinant amounts of time on laws that won't actually do anything. Much of Europe has a higher per capita mass shooting and school shooting rate than we do. So all this talk about banning and confiscating most of the guns (as helpful as that initially feels to say) hasn't done anything anywhere else. Plus we have the 2nd amendment that says we can't do that. So what we should work on are school safety, mental illness/violence/gun bans, getting law enforcement to do their frigging jobs, and restore family values. None of that is popular with the left though, because it doesn't jive with their political views.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 2897, post: 402406"] To put numbers behind your reply, here is some data: Per Capita Gun Murder Rate, Total Gun Murders: Alabama, 17.8, 854 Illinois, 8.67, 1,109. Chicago (bans guns) has a gun murder rate of 15.5, which means of the 1,109 murders in the entire state, 420 were just from the city limits. Illinois is 58,000 square miles. Chicago is 234 square miles. So 38% of the shootings happen within 0.4% of the state. Should we be trying to reduce gun violence? Absolutely. Should we be trying to keep our kids and communities safe? Absolutely. But we need to make rational evidence-based decisions on what we do, not make public policy based on our political views and spend inordinant amounts of time on laws that won't actually do anything. Much of Europe has a higher per capita mass shooting and school shooting rate than we do. So all this talk about banning and confiscating most of the guns (as helpful as that initially feels to say) hasn't done anything anywhere else. Plus we have the 2nd amendment that says we can't do that. So what we should work on are school safety, mental illness/violence/gun bans, getting law enforcement to do their frigging jobs, and restore family values. None of that is popular with the left though, because it doesn't jive with their political views. [/QUOTE]
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