07-15-2015, 09:23 AM
Obama has in fact publicly addressed gun violence in Chicago's black community Six. That's just a fact.
But yeah, Chicago (where Obama served and lived for years) definitely has too much shooting going on despite its gun laws. Obama and others partially attribute gun violence in Chicago to lax gun control laws in neighboring states.
To me, it's misleading when Chicago is cited as the shooting/murder capital of the U.S. when those doing the reporting fail to note that Chicago proper has a much larger population than most cities and is actually not even in the top 30 list when it comes to homicides (mostly, but not totally, gun-related) per capita.
But yeah, Chicago (where Obama served and lived for years) definitely has too much shooting going on despite its gun laws. Obama and others partially attribute gun violence in Chicago to lax gun control laws in neighboring states.
To me, it's misleading when Chicago is cited as the shooting/murder capital of the U.S. when those doing the reporting fail to note that Chicago proper has a much larger population than most cities and is actually not even in the top 30 list when it comes to homicides (mostly, but not totally, gun-related) per capita.