Chicago had the highest number of homicides in 2022, a title the city has held for the past 11 years. While Chicago politicians constantly point to more restrictive gun laws as a solution to the problem, maybe it’s time to realize that firearm ownership may not correlate with violent crime.
On Jan. 10, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act into law. The act bans so-called ‘assault weapons,’ high-capacity magazines, and “switches,” a nickname for conversion devices designed to make semi-automatic firearms fully automatic.
Apparently, this law has done nothing to reduce gun violence in Chicago because local politicians have come up with a new proposal to keep the violent crime rate from rising: Asking criminals to limit gunfights to between the hours of 9 pm – 9 am.
While this proposal sounds like something right out of “The Purge” series of films, it’s a real suggestion brought forward by the Chicago group Native Sons and boosted by Democrat Alderman Maria Hadden.
By Tyler Durden