Just yesterday, there was a staggering 14 people shot with three of them proving fatal.
As Breitbart News reports, “The first shooting fatality of the day was a woman who was shot and killed at 1:20 a.m. while inside a car “in the 6500 block of South Calumet Avenue.” The 27-year-old was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the hospital.
WGN-TV observed the gunman who killed the woman also shot two men who were standing on the sidewalk near the vehicle, but their injuries were not life-threatening.
The Sun-Times explained a 21-year-old man standing by the street “in the 1500 block of South Christiana Avenue” was shot multiple times and killed about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday.
The third fatality of the day was a 39-year-old who was shot twice at 9:30 p.m. while “in a gangway in the 6200 block of South Campbell Avenue.” He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Tuesday’s violence comes after Breitbart News noted some 15 were shot, six of them fatally, on Monday alone in Lightfoot’s Chicago.
As famed publication, National Review reports, Lori Lightfoot, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union this weekend to deflect attention from the horror show unfolding in her city by blaming interlopers for its spiking murder rate: “We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons — that is hurting cities like Chicago.”
Although these accusations have leveled by Chicago politicians for decades now, they are a myth.
For one thing, there is no state in the nation with “virtually no gun control” or “no background checks.” Every time anyone in the United States purchases a gun from a federal firearms licensee (FFL) — a gun store, a gun show, it doesn’t matter — the seller runs a background check on the buyer through the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) database. In some cases, the FFL checks to see if the buyer has passed a background check via a state-issued concealed-carry permit. In states that allow individual private sales, it is illegal to knowingly sell to anyone who you believe is obtaining a firearm for criminal purposes.
Those who cross state lines to buy guns undergo the same background check, and the sale is processed by an FFL in the buyer’s home state. The exact same laws apply to all online sales.
The vast majority of Americans obtain their guns in this manner, and they rarely commit crimes. Around 7 percent of criminals in prison bought weapons using their real names. Fewer than 1 percent obtained them at gun shows. As the Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer points out, there have been around 18 million concealed-carry permit holders over the past 15 years, and they have committed 801 firearm-related homicides over that span, or somewhere around 0.7 percent of all firearm-related murders. Concealed-carry holders not only are more law-abiding than the general population as a group; they are more law-abiding than law enforcement.
Of course, historically, Democrats have never let little, pesky things like facts destroy a good victim-story and narrative so none of this should really be surprising. Sadly, it still is.
