And the MSM is awash in stupidity!!

How to they explain the fact that Aurora the city adjacent to Chicago - had no murders last year? None.

Dictatorship (suppression of law-abiding citizens) must be uniform in order to be effective. That is the message of these "media" personalities.

Libtards will say anything to justify why their liberal Utopia is not working.

Geez, thats pretty lame

Oh I get it take away all the guns owned by law abiding citizens in the state of Texas and the Chicago inner city thugs wouldn´t have any. Good grief these liberals, progressives are so stupid it´s astonishing. They will say anything to further their progressive ideology even without realizing they are making fools of themselves. I´m beginning to think Shakespeare had it wrong first get rid of all the elite law professors. The attack on the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment by so called law professors continues unabated.

NBC = No Brains Channel.

simple.. capital punishment.. immediate.. for any FELON even CARRYING a gun in ANY crime..

we can address the judges, attorneys, churches and social workers who let them out later..

why do WE get it here..

It is illegal to possess an unregistered firearm in Chicago, so the law abiding register or go without. The criminals don´t care about laws by definition.

I believe the lefties understand this but have ulterior motives.

So in order for the citizens of Chicago to be effectively enslaved, I have to surrender my freedoms too.
Ok. Come and get them. Watch for the flash.

It´s massive abuse of existing laws. stupid! When 93% of Chicago killers walk free, something is broken.

Mandatory Sentences for gun shootings is the only answer... 10 yrs for 1st offense, 25 yrs for 2nd. Period.

You can darn well bet Diane Sawyer has massive security at work (and picturei.d.´s needed to even enter the building) and I would also bet that she and Mike Nichol´s are packing at their Ct. horse farm. What hypocrites!!!!!!!

No, NBC, Chicago Gun Restrictions are
Ineffective Because of Drugged up, uneducated, reprobates who want to rule the streets. Too bad media covers for their idiocy.

If the whole nation is awash with guns, why isn´t the whole nation awash with Chicago-like murder rates? Guns aren´t the problem, Chicagoans are.

nbc=nothing but c//p u fill in the last word

Yeah, that explains why the murder rate is lower, everywhere else.

"But the difficulty is that outlying areas outside of Chicago and in other states, neighboring Illinois, don´t have strict gun control laws, and the guns easily flow into Chicago because of that."

And that´s why Chicago has a murder rate that is equal to the murder rate of outlying areas and other states...oh, wait.

1. Bush´s fault.
2. Global warming to blame.
3. Other states who obey the 2nd. amendment

Got it!

Criminals and gangs will always find a way. After all, they´re criminals and gangs, right?

Much of the gun violence is battle between the blacks and mexicans fighting over turf to sell drugs, run prostitution, etc...

Criminals and gangs won´t be bothered with trying to register their guns like Senator Dick Durbin seems to believe (as noted in his comments to NRA at Senate hearings the other day).

Mr Drennen must have been blind stupid drunk when he wrote this. Nobody sober could write such drivel.

And yet, the states with those gun rights have a fraction of the gun crime. Explain that Chicagoans.

Dear NBC,

Consider the following. The level of criminal activity in any society will rise until it reaches the intolerance level of a majority of its citizenry. Chicago has a murder problem because its citizens are willing to accept murder as a daily event. They continue to return elected officials to office who do not do anything to address the problem. Their state has gutted the statute regarding capital punishment. Their legislators (lead primarily by the urban legislators from upstate) refuses to enact any legislation that will allow their citizens to carry a weapon (concealled or open) for personal protection.

Chicago has a population of 2,710,000 +/- and a murder rate of 1 per 5,400 population. The population of Houston, Texas metroplex is 5,628,000 +/-. Houston reported 216 murders in 2012 yielding a murder rate of 1 in 26,000.

Texas is not known for its tolerance of criminal activity. As one of its native sons once said, "We have the death penalty and we use it." But Texans also realize that the responsibilities of law enforcement consist primarily of sorting out the debris after a violation has occured, and therefore, Texans are supported by their state to take appropriate measures to insure their personal security.

So NBC, being that you claim superior enlightenment and knowledge over us mere serfs of flyover land, at what point will you concede that gun restrictions favor the criminal element at the expense of the law abiding citizen? How much additional lawlessness should the citizens of Illinois tolerate before holding their elected officials accountable for the statutory impediments to personal safety that were erected in the name of public safety?

Thanks OP for what is an obvious and potentially very effective argument against a pathetic democrat talking point for gun control----"restriction don´t work in Chicago because the guns are smuggled in from out of state."

Approximately 1 million illegals sneak across the border each year. They will gleefully pack in weapons to fulfill demand for a burgeoning black market if a national gun ban is imposed.

Maybe it is the fatherless black kids roaming the streets of Chicago like feral animals, and not necessarily the guns causing this problem?

It appears that the only group dimmer than congress is the news media, but they are catching up. Why not set up border checkpoints around Chicago city limits and search cars going in for guns? Better yet, burn the government created slum neighborhoods. Deport all the gang members back to their respective countries or tribal homes. This gun control nonsense is like blaming the hammer when you hit your thumb.

It is illegal for felons to buy or possess guns anywhere, bonehead. Chicago´s problems are primarily political and police corruption and poor to nonexistent enforcement of existing law...

What is so different about Chicago? NYC doesn´t have your gang problems. Chicago has a century-old culture of political corruption still dominated by whites (yup - most other super corrupt cities are all-black affairs).

This corruption makes for a corrupt and weakened police force - one that is unable or unwilling to quash the highly-lucrative drug trade and the gangs that trade in those drugs.

Get your police in shape (and off the take) enough to get rid of the gangs. Your shootings will drop by 80%.

An armed society is a polite society

"...shall not be infringed."

Last time I heard this argument it was to defend the failures of Communism by claiming you needed the whole world to be communist for it to work.