An armed robbery crew carried out a string of holdups and carjackings across Humboldt Park, West Town and nearby neighborhoods Wednesday morning, firing a shot when a witness tried to follow them, according to Chicago police reports.
An armed robbery crew carried out a string of holdups and carjackings across Humboldt Park, West Town and nearby neighborhoods Wednesday morning, firing a shot when a witness tried to follow them, according to Chicago police reports.
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A simple solution, if you use a firearm in
committing a crime the first time 5 years in prison
No Parole. A second offense 10 years in
prison, No Parole. A third offense 25 years
in prison No Parole.
The final if anyone doesn’t learn that don’t
use firearms in crimes is 50 years NO
PAROLE.
This is how you stop this shit from happening
over and over again.
The current politician will not do it, maybe the socialists will it is worth looking at them.
hmm-starting to see a pattern here?
guns are used at nearly triple the frequency in American robberies compared to Canadian incidents while firearm-involved robberies in the UK are extremely rare (typically under 5%)
Reply to ahimsa42
Yes, we see a pattern. The pattern is criminal gangs and a criminal justice system that refuses to impose consequences for criminal behavior.
Still waiting on your plan to get the guns away from the gangs.
Reply to ProzacPlease
it’s very simple-make gun ownership a privilege instead of a right and classify weapons into distinct categories with strict age, registration, and psychological mandates-all of which as was done years ago in Australia Canada & the UK.
Reply to ahimsa42
The only people that will follow the rules will be the law abiding citizens. The criminals won’t care. Solves nothing.
Reply to daskoterzar
it seems to have worked very well in the UK, Canada & other countries
Reply to ahimsa42
You do understand that most of the people committing gun crimes are already illegally in possession of a gun, right? So how do you think your ideas would change that?
Additional laws wouldn’t change anything. Enforce existing laws. Come back and tell us more after you have done that.
Reply to ProzacPlease
Australia’s gun control seizures and confiscations trace back historically to the landmark 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA), which resulted in the mandatory buyback and seizure of roughly 650,000 prohibited automatic and semi-automatic firearms. Recent crackdowns continue targeting illicit, non-compliant, or unregistered weapons
Reply to ahimsa42
There are an estimated 400 million privately owned firearms in the US, with a population of 340 million people. Australia successfully confiscated 650,000 guns out of a population of 27 million people.
You continue to ignore any real world considerations that would mar your fantasy of confiscating firearms in the US.
Leftists thrive on preferring their fantasies to the real world. The gangbangers thank you for allowing them to roam free while you insist the solution is to get all the guns.
Reply to ahimsa42
And yet we live here so why should we care ? Get a clue you’re wasting space
Reply to Callmyshrink
we should care because as other countries have shown, there is a proven solution to firearm deaths but the US refuses to implement it and instead over the past decade (roughly 2015 to 2025), over 400,000 Americans have died from gun violence.
Reply to Riverbender
it bears repeating that facts do not care about your feelings:
“Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite. Studies have also examined the impact of the concentration of immigrants in a community on crime patterns, finding that immigration is associated with lower crime rates and an increase in structural factors — such as social connection and economic opportunity — that are linked to neighborhood safety.”
Reply to ahimsa42
The United States is a constitutional republic, under which the right to bear arms is protected. Lawfully armed citizens are not the problem with gun violence. Liberal DA’s with soft on crime policies like the saf-t act and no cash bail are allowing this chaos to continue. It’s not my guns it’s your sons- Chris Plante
Reply to Bear19
“The United States is a constitutional republic” that is the rhetoric we have all been sold but upon closer examination it is obvious that the US is a corpocracy and the nra/gun lobbies care far more about profits than they do about the families of the 40,000 murdered every single year in the US by gun violence.
Reply to ahimsa42
The NRA is broke; drained by years of lawfare by the people who have all the guns…and aren’t giving them up.
Reply to ahimsa42
Has the UK banned knives yet? Seems to me there are knife attacks happening at a good pace…there is always going to be a weapon available to use against a citizen regardless of the ban
Reply to Hrsracer01
the confirmation bais is strong in you because the UK has a violent crime rate of 4x less than the US
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