From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 15:23:22 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
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> From: "Joe E. Dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net>
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> >There is an article in the July issue of Playboy about a squad of
> >Chicago cops masquerading as bikers and gang members and
> >asking to buy guns with which to commit crimes. The firearms
> >dealers were most helpful, and in just two months, the police had
> >purchased 171 weapons for $65,000, all for the explicit purpose of
> >aiding in the commission of criminal acts.
>
> Now your source of scientific evidence is Playboy? Sorry, even as
> a subscriber I can't agree. ;)
I was trying to be open minded in not pointing this out...
>
> I don't know where you got 1998 numbers, since the Chicago Police
> Web site doesn't have them yet. But you fail to mention that 33% of
> murders are gang related, 22% are altercations, 14% robbery, and
> 13% narcotics, 66% of the murder victims knew each other.
The "knew each other" term is useless. If you happen to be passingly familiar
with a guy who hangs out on a street corner, maybe you know his first name, then
according to the Chicago Police you "know" him. If he happens to be a drug
dealer and he hold you up one night, and you defend yourself and kill him, then
you knew the person you attacked....hows that for accuracy in statistics.
> The gun shops are not strategically located for maximum advantage,
> Chicago is ringed with suburbs because of geography. I live in one
> of them.
>
> So explain how the suburbs, with the gun shops and a much greater
> population don't have a gun problem?
>
> Why did the Mayor and City council exempt themselves from the
> handgun ban?
Politicians always exempt themselves from their own laws.
> Why did they in fact pass special legislation that allows them to
> conceal carry?
>
> 15,000 weapons are seized in Chicago each year, yet almost zero
> prosecutions..... Why?
Cause then the crooks will inform on the guy who sold them the gun, who was a
cop.
> Why do 97%+ of all gun crimes in Chicago take place in certain
> neighborhoods?
Sorry, its wrong to make ethnic or economic associations in this matter....
Mike Lorrey
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