Most gun control proposals prompted by mass shootings wouldn't do anything to stop Chicago gangs from getting weapons. 12/x
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They mostly do not use AR-15s, or other civilian versions of military-grade rifles. 13/x
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"Assault weapon" is very hard to define. And pretty easy to get around. Either way, a new assault weapons ban wouldn't help Chicago. 14/x
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Expanded background checks and closing gun show loopholes could help. Make it harder for gang to send 1 or 2 people to buy out of state 15/x
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But gang violence is a multifaceted problem. Unclear how much stricter gun laws would help. Definitely wouldn't solve all of it. 16/x
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But one thing's clear: Gun violence in Chicago tells us absolutely nothing about how national gun laws might affect America as a whole (END)
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I think one thing it does do is show how restricting guns in one place won't keep guns from being there illegally. So...
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Unless you can remove guns from nearby areas as well (and that will be hard in the middle of the US), it's not going to work. So...
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You would have to have national gun restrictions AND border enforcement to start to really get guns out of the hands of criminals. But...
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There are 300 million here already, we're not an island like Britain, &most don't want Feds (Trump) to have confiscatory power at that level
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You're right. That last tweet is overstated and unclear. I meant Chicago doesn't show gun laws cause more gun violence. Perils of Twitter.
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