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Kolesar

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51. The crime rate was twice as high or worse when the baby boomers were young

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 06:13 PM

Oct 2017

Teenage and young adult men get into crime at a higher rate than "normal".
There are other factors that brought the crime rate down. Employment opportunities were truly bad thirty or forty years ago.

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60% of guns used to commit crimes in Chicago from 2009 to 2013 originated outside of Illinois. [View all] Quixote1818 Oct 2017 OP

We need "national reciprocity" on tough gun laws, not lax laws as gunners want. n/t Hoyt Oct 2017 #1

How about putting the teeth of Law on the thieves? AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #4

That'll help along with you gunners leaving your guns at home and stopping buying Hoyt Oct 2017 #9

Blame the robber, not the victim Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #20

Maybe so. But if you gunners would do your part, that would help too. Hoyt Oct 2017 #30

What would be "your part" ? AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #40

Actually it won't....leaving them at home. AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #23

Yeah, but every time you buy one, every time some white wing racist buys one, every time some George Hoyt Oct 2017 #31

What is "moral"..you don't care about moral..."white wingers.." AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #44

Yeah but facts don't matter to racists. Initech Oct 2017 #2

What does that mean? AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #25

No I'm saying if you present facts like this to Trumplodytes and racists, they won't care. Initech Oct 2017 #27

Except.....the underlying issue. Existing laws aren't being AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #29

Yeah, but gun ownership has a racist metric too. Hoyt Oct 2017 #33

Really...AA legal owners in Chicago are racist, Baltimore..racist AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #36

I Did Not Realize Guns Were Portable SoCalMusicLover Oct 2017 #3

It's already illegal to buy across state lines unless it from an FFL Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #5

The problem is that guns are easily available in Indiana Kolesar Oct 2017 #7

It's already illegal to take them into Illinois unless an FFL is used Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #10

The problem is NOT that "nobody bothers with enforcement of the laws that exist"...eom Kolesar Oct 2017 #14

Exactly what I said above Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #19

I edited in some quotes so you can see that I *refuted* you ... eom Kolesar Oct 2017 #21

And your wrong Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #22

"Enforce the laws before making any more" is a Right Wing tautology Kolesar Oct 2017 #24

"More restrictions in Indiana would make Indiana and Illinois safer." How? AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #28

Pretty straight forward Egnever Oct 2017 #34

Ban the sale of a legal product...OK.... AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #37

Time Egnever Oct 2017 #41

How that works out...perpetual Trumpanzees being in office. AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #45

You are being obtuse. Kolesar Oct 2017 #52

Being straight up honest, not obtuse...nothing coy about it either.... AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #53

We can't convince Congress to pass universal background checks ClarendonDem Oct 2017 #39

Does not need to be all guns Egnever Oct 2017 #42

No actualy we didn't.....we banned "features"...not the operation of the AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #46

Well then we could certainly ban anything but single shot weapons Egnever Oct 2017 #47

How could we do that ClarendonDem Oct 2017 #49

How? It's not an excuse....it's a fact. AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #50

Can we ban your phone data because 1st Amendment Egnever? AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #57

I didn't argue that an assault weapon ban ClarendonDem Oct 2017 #48

I wouldn't expect that to stay true if the GOP get 1 more SCOTUS pick DetroitLegalBeagle Oct 2017 #56

I thought nobody was talking sarisataka Oct 2017 #55

If guns are so readily available in those other places, why are their crime rates lower? Amishman Oct 2017 #6

The crime rates in Chicago and Baltimore are not "high" because of gun control...eom Kolesar Oct 2017 #8

Exactly, they are high because of factors completely unrelated to guns Amishman Oct 2017 #11

The crime rates in Chicago and Baltimore are not "high" because possession is illegal...eom Kolesar Oct 2017 #16

Then why are so many gun crimes related to illegal guns in those cities? AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #38

It is not even all of Chicago that has a gun violence issue Not Ruth Oct 2017 #12

Is that because of "gun control"? former9thward Oct 2017 #15

No. Guns have nothing to do with the problem or solution Amishman Oct 2017 #17

Most of us grew up and lost the impulsive and violent nature. It's demographics...eom Kolesar Oct 2017 #18

What exactly do you mean by "demographics"? Paladin Oct 2017 #43

The crime rate was twice as high or worse when the baby boomers were young Kolesar Oct 2017 #51

Your being too complex for the mind of the gun prohibitionists Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #13

Are you capable of using "you're" rather than the incorrect "your"? Paladin Oct 2017 #32

So the dude who shot up last Vegas was rich Egnever Oct 2017 #35

There is no excuse for him...he was a whack job... AncientGeezer Oct 2017 #54

Yep I95 (east coast) is the "Iron Pipeline" underpants Oct 2017 #26