Gun-Free Chicago Now Murder Capital Of America

Thursday, September 19, 2013

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Barack Obama’s gun-free Chicago is now the murder capital of the United States, flying by New York in 2012. In an oxymoron that should teach anti-gun politicians and anti-gun Americans a lesson: gun-free doesn’t mean less murders nor does gun-free make a location more safe. In fact, the gun-free DC Navy Yard became the home of America’s latest mass killing days ago and the ‘effectiveness’ of gun-free zones are explored in the new video below from Resist The Tyranny, “How those gun-free zones working out for you?”

Chicago, Illinois usurped New York City as the murder capital of America in 2012, according to a report released this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The FBI published on Monday a crime statistics analysis for the calendar year in which it’s reported that the Windy City saw a surge in homicides during 2012 that boosted it above New York and other major metropolitan areas to become the bloodiest in the United States.

According to the FBI report, Chicago was the site of more murders in 2012 than any other city, with its body count of 500 dwarfing NYC’s tally of only 419.

In terms of population, however, Chicago has only a fraction of the people that New York does. The US Census Bureau has listed the number of Chicagoans at around 2.7 million — a meager number when compared to New York’s 8 million-plus.

One year earlier, the FBI recorded only 431 homicides in Chicago. That same year the agency acknowledged there were 515 murders in New York, indicating that while things may be getting better on the East Coast, the Midwest metropolis has seen a surge in murders since 2011.

As RT reported previously, last year marked the first time 2008 that Chicago hosted over 500 murders.