HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?

13 People Shot in Chicago, Including 3-Year-Old Boy.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-multiple-people-including-3yearold-shot-in-south-side-attack-20130919,0,352520.story

 

http://www.suntimes.com/22678686-761/13-shot-including-a-3-year-old-boy-in-back-of-the-yards.html

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/19/as-many-as-10-people-shot-in-back-of-the-yards/

Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.  Illinois remains the only state in the country where nobody can legally carry a concealed weapon.  You may wonder how this could happen in the City with the strictest gun laws in the country.  To me, the obvious answer is “this is the reason it happened”.

Gun control policies don’t work because they disarm citizens while keeping criminals in possession of guns.  Chicago’s strict policies have effectively given lawbreakers a monopoly on weapons in many parts of the city that the Chicago Police Department cannot or will not police effectively.

A nice contrast to Chicago for a natural experiment is Houston.  Houston is very similar to Chicago in terms of socioeconomic factors such as population, density, and segregation.  Houston, like Chicago, is a major center for illegal activities such as the drug trade and human trafficking.  Despite all this, Houston has a murder rate two-thirds that of Chicago.  This is because the people of Houston are well armed, while innocents in Chicago have been condemned to be sitting ducks.

I would NEVER live in a city where I did not have the right to defend myself.

I read somewhere recently that back in the 1800s (I think it was in the 1860s) the Supreme Court ruled that any law passed that violated the Constitution was VOID.   If that’s true, it would seem to me that ALL gun control laws are void.

What do you think?  Let’s have some comments.
Anybody out there know anything about that Supreme Court ruling?