Good comment. Much more well thought out & informed than most of the comments that issue profundities such as that’s what you get when you take away guns” and “that’s what you get when you elect liberals,” or which urge the few remaining productive Chicagoans (if any such specimens exist) to “get out of that stinking cesspool & bring your business to Texas, Tennessee, southwestern Lesotho, etc.”
For the record, I’m anything but a liberal. But lifting Chicago’s gun ban won’t magically end the crime & violence. And considering the fact that the murder rate was significantly lower during the first 18 years of Mayor Daley’s reign than it has been in the last two, one can’t just blame Daley or Democrats and expect that ousting Daley will result in fewer violent crimes.
Chicago’s explosion in murders is a recent phenomenon (i.e., post-2008). Things were cool in 2006 & 2007. Daley & the Machine were in power then too. But something changed. And it changed post – 2008 — after Phil Kline was forced out as Police Superintendent, something like 1000 officers were let go, and Jody Weis came riding into town.
