[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

It isn't as simple as you imagine. There is no simple way to just "do something about it". If there's anything I've learned in my 27 years, it's that state initiatives often have the exact opposite effect from what was intended.

Chicago has a crime problem, that much is certain, and most of it stems from a poverty problem, which is also certain, but simply banning guns isn't going to address the violence problem. Don't take my word for it, just look at DC, or California. Gun control does not equal less violence, just as housing initiatives and poverty initiatives have not yet given Chicago a shortage of good housing or prosperity.

Guns tend to be a whipping boy for other probelms that have not been satisfactorily addressed by politicians, much as poverty itself or whatever hot-button social issue at the moment can be, and we see this all the time. Everything from inflation to job loss to environmental disasters is always blamed on something else.

It's politics, would you expect anything else?

yes, poverty is a problem...but when we try to enact social programs to help these people, they're labeled as "handouts" or "socialism" or "wealth redistribution"