Letters: Learn from Chicago policy

Published: Friday, Jan. 4 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Thanks to mayor Raum Emanuel and his kind, Chicago now has what are the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. No wonder the city has so many homocides ("Tragic number': Chicago reaches 500 homicides," KSL.com, Dec. 28.).

It's interesting that, as Chicago's gun controls laws have become more restrictive, the crime rate there has continued to rise drastically. Could it be that the bad guys know that they now have much lower probability of running into good guys' guns as they carry out their misdeeds?

While I see no reason for high-capacity, assault-type guns, I also see the need for great caution as the country, states and cities consider restrictions on other types of guns. Lest, the entire nation becomes as Chicago is now.

Gordon Graham

Woods Cross

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Emajor

Ogden, UT

Yet another argument that assumes causality when there is not enough information to do so. Chicago has strict gun control laws and high homocide rates, therefore gun control causes homocides. Well, the opposite of that are many European nations with More..

9:01 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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KDave

Moab, UT

The murder rate in Chicago can be blamed on drug wars. Almost all the deaths are gang members. Obviously illegal guns are as available as illegal drugs.

9:33 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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Mountanman

Hayden, ID

Wait a minute! You mean laws against selling and using crack cocaine and meth do not stop some people from selling and using? Then why do liberal think more gun laws will keep bad guys from using them?

11:04 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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