Chicago's Tough Gun Law Isn't Doing Much To Help Cops

Chicago Reader:

Edison Park and Norwood Park are seemingly as far from Chicago's crime problems as one can get without leaving the city. The predominantly white, middle-class neighborhoods are on the far northwest edge of Chicago, about 14 miles from downtown, with spacious homes and leafy streets that give off a suburban feel. Together they make up a big chunk of the 16th police district, whose crime rate was the lowest in the city even before the numbers started dropping citywide more than a decade ago.

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Comments

[GBFive]

01:36 PM on 06/19/2011

Excellent and constitutional gun laws in Chicago would work fine if neighboring governments would fix their less restrictive gun laws. Chicago’s handgun prohibition would have worked except that Canada had such lax laws. But no one is talking about handgun bans.

[stanton89]

10:34 AM on 06/20/2011

Chicago and IL. have had restrictive gun laws since i was a teen in the 60s. They have done nothing at all but make it a pain for people like me to own guns legally.

[CelticMajic]

10:04 AM on 06/17/2011

So predictable. Who obeys the law? Criminals? Hardly. The inanimate object has no effect on crime. And draconian gun laws only result in unarmed victims.

[SBleeder]

09:44 AM on 06/17/2011

Criminals are disobeying laws now? Man, what's this world coming to.

[stanton89]

05:11 AM on 06/17/2011

Chicago need more good guys with guns. There is always going to be plenty of bad guys.

[Frank Jenkins]

02:24 PM on 06/16/2011

Boy I hate being right.