Unit2Sucks said:
iwantwinners said:
Chicago has the harshest and most restrictive gun laws yet has the highest rate of gun violence and homicide.
Neither of these things is true.
Where do you get your information? Same place that says that gun ownership is at an all time high?
Last I saw Chicago was 25th in homicide rate and had a 75% lower murder rate than St. Louis. As for restrictive gun laws, this has been repeatedly debunked. First - a number of their strictest laws have been overturned by courts. Second - they weren't as restrictive to begin with as a number of other cities like NY, LA and SF. Third - see what Sycasey has posted upthread. Most of the guns in Chicago come out of state.
Sycasey is right that it's a waste of time to argue with people who continue to peddle this garbage because they cannot be doing so in good faith.
St. Louis likely remained the national murder capital of the United States based on murder rate, with nearly 60 murders per 100,000 residents. St. Louis has had the country's highest murder rate each year since 2014. Baltimore likely had the country's second-highest murder rate for the second-consecutive year with roughly 52 murders per 100,000 residents, with Detroit, New Orleans and Cleveland probably rounding out the top five. The table below shows the top 10 big cities in terms of estimated murder rate calculated using the FBI's 2015 population totals for each city. This kind of cross-city comparison can be tricky, however, because cities draw their borders differently: St. Louis and Baltimore, for example, include only a relatively small geographic area around their downtowns, while cities such as Phoenix and Los Angeles include large suburban areas within their borders.
Police investigated 188 killings in St. Louis in 2016.
Chicago made national headlines this year by eclipsing 750 murders for the first time since the 1990s. Chicago had the most murders of any U.S. city in 2016, but the city's murder rate of roughly 28 per 100,000 residents likely "only" ranked 8th. Chicago's rate jumped by about 10 murders per 100,000 people between 2015 and 2016, so Chicago joined Memphis as the only cities with a double-digit increase in murder rate in 2016.
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