July 2016 was the "deadliest July in 10 years" for heavily gun-controlled Chicago: Sixty-five individuals were shot and killed. Moreover, according to the Chicago Tribune, such death figures do not set a new record — they simply tie a record set in 2006, when 65 individuals were killed in the month of July. This brings Chicago's homicide total to "nearly 400" for the first seven months of 2016 alone. The number of homicides for the whole year of 2015 was 490.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson tried to abate the feeding frenzy on the July death numbers by pointing out that they are at least better than the numbers for June, "when 72 homicides were reported." Breitbart News previously reported that May 2016 was also a recording-setting month. Almost 400 people were shot and 66 people were killed in that one month. The Chicago Tribune reported May 2016 as the deadliest May since 1995, when 75 people were gunned down.

On August 2, the Chicago Tribune reported a total of 2,395 shooting victims in Chicago for the seven months of 2016. There were 2,988 shooting victims for all of 2015. These shootings come in spite of the city's "assault weapons" ban, "violence tax," strict rules on acquiring handguns, and micro-management of the number of gun stores in the city, as well as of the locations of those stores.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political ana

Maybe if a white cop kills a black in Chicago our President might just say something about all this

Gun control or no gun control, they're easily available on the black market, anywhere in the world & even easier in the U.S

might be the Dumbest thing she ever did in her life,and she did many,many,many dumb things so far!

Maybe it is.

For all I know if there were more lax gun control in Chicago the "statistics" used in the article would be far higher.


She's worth millions, she's guaranteed a salary for life due to her tenure in government, she's had kids and passed on her DNA to the next generation, she (and her family) seems to get away with anything, she's got at least a 50/50 chance of becoming president of the U.S.

I wish the "dumb things" I did led to half as much success.


I was amusing myself with a thought.
Who owns the majority of guns in the U.S.?
White people.
White people are more than twice as likely to own a firearm than black people.

So who's most likely selling guns to black people and criminals on the secondary market, private sales, where the "illegal" guns come from?
White people.

I think it might be time for more racism.
"I'm not sellin' no guns to no black people. I ain't doin no bidness with no black guy! Git outta here or I'll shoot ya."

There you go!
Gun violence solved!
We need more racism.

white people... and yet, 95% of the Chicago killings are done by blacks... go figure, huh... kind of puts a damper on your self proclaimed brilliance...

Simply Brilliant!
Who owns the majority of guns in the U.S.?
Well since white people represent 85% of the population it doesn't take Einstein to figure out who has more guns!

Since there are over 3 times as many whites then blacks, whites being TWICE as likely to own a firearm doesn't surprise me

They're all coming for your weapons lol

Holy Mackerel Batman!