Monday, April 20, 2015

3 shot in Chicago, city of gun control

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Two men, 35 and 24, and a woman, 22, were shot and wounded Monday morning about a block from the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus, the latest in a spate of shootings in the city that have left 32 killed and injured.

Chicago has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation, but that hasn’t kept the criminal element from firing off weapons with alarming frequency. Between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, 14 people were shot and wounded in the city, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing police statistics.

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In the latest, the three victims were sitting in their vehicle by an alley when a gunman approached and fired, said Hector Alfaro, a spokesman for the city’s police department. The victims were injured, but still ran into a nearby parking garage and were then transported to nearby hospitals, the newspaper said.

The woman was considered in serious condition from abdomen and chest wounds.

“The motive for the shooting is unknown and there is no suspect information at this time,” a security alert from the school stated.

Among the 14 wounded since Sunday, three were shot in the same area, the Chicago Tribune said. And go back to Friday, and the gun-related crime statistics soar higher.

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Between Friday morning and Monday morning, four people in Chicago were killed by gunfire, and 32 wounded, police reported.

Nobody has been arrested for the shootings, the newspaper reported.

Up until January 2014, when a federal court ruled it unconstitutional, Chicago banned gun sales in the city. Then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a staunch gun control advocate, responded to that court ruling by proposing a slate of other Second Amendment crackdowns – namely, to ban gun shops from operating within city boundaries and to limit buyers to one purchase per month.

The gun control and anti-violence measures don’t seem to be working well.

As WND previously reported, the murder toll in the city between 2003 and 2011 – much of it from gun-related violence – surpassed the death count of U.S. military members killed in Afghanistan’s Operation Enduring Freedom.

At the time of the analysis, 2,166 U.S. forces were killed in Operation Enduring Freedom, which began in late 2001 and ranged for more than 11 years. By comparison, 4,265 people were murdered in Chicago between 2003 and 2011.

Specifically, 3,371 were killed from guns, the statistics showed.


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