Suggested New Years Resolutions for the NRA by kpete (Locked on GD-cut and pasted here)

[Shamash]

8. Let's just pick #2

The entire list is cringe-worthy, but since my time is limited, we'll just deal with one of them.

The "Chicago" comment would make sense if the areas the guns were brought in from (and where they are by definition easier to acquire) had higher firearm crime rates. But they do not. The "loose laws" where the guns are available do not show up as a higher incidence of firearm crime in these states and counties.

For instance, this Chicago news outlet talks about guns coming from Mississippi. Well:

firearm homicide rate, Mississippi(2010): 5.6 per 100,000
firearm homicide rate, Chicago(2010): 8.1 per 100,000

Similarly, in June 2010 the Supreme Court struck down some of Chicago's restrictive gun laws. In the following year, the January-June 2011 firearm homicide numbers were 14% lower than for January-June 2010.

So, the "Chicago" item has a ways to go before it can reach the level of merely being wrong.