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<blockquote data-quote="MAKAVELI" data-source="post: 1955515" data-attributes="member: 43825"><a href="http://chicagoist.com/2015/10/08/_gop_presidential_candidates_donald.php" target="_blank">http://chicagoist.com/2015/10/08/_gop_presidential_candidates_donald.php</a>Republican presidential candidates such as Donald Trump, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina have been claiming that Chicago&#039;s violence surge proves gun control does not work. It&#039;s been an argument that various political conservatives and gun advocates have been making for years, but the reality might not be as clear-cut as gun control critics make it out to be.Chicago&#039;s gun laws are not as tough as the candidates claim, and there are some major loopholes that make it relatively easy to get guns, including our proximity to Indiana, a state with virtually no gun restrictions, according toBloomberg.There are no gun stores in Chicago, so where are the guns coming from?About 60 percent of guns recovered in connection with an arrest in Chicago from 2009 to 2013 were from out of state, 24 percent were from Indiana and 22 percent were from parts of Cook County outside the city where gun laws are looser, according to a study conducted by Philip Cook, a Duke public policy professor and economist who works with the University of Chicago Crime Lab.Most of the more than 7,000 guns Cook researched came from gang members who are skilled at obtaining guns because of the city&#039;s lethal gang wars.&quot;I think that it&#039;s more likely that if Chicago did not have tough gun laws they would have higher rates of gun violence than they do have,&quot; he told Bloomberg.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MAKAVELI, post: 1955515, member: 43825"] [URL]http://chicagoist.com/2015/10/08/_gop_presidential_candidates_donald.php[/URL] Republican presidential candidates such as Donald Trump, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina have been claiming that Chicago's violence surge proves gun control does not work. It's been an argument that various political conservatives and gun advocates have been making for years, but the reality might not be as clear-cut as gun control critics make it out to be. Chicago's gun laws are not as tough as the candidates claim, and there are some major loopholes that make it relatively easy to get guns, including our proximity to Indiana, a state with virtually no gun restrictions, according toBloomberg. There are no gun stores in Chicago, so where are the guns coming from? About 60 percent of guns recovered in connection with an arrest in Chicago from 2009 to 2013 were from out of state, 24 percent were from Indiana and 22 percent were from parts of Cook County outside the city where gun laws are looser, according to a study conducted by Philip Cook, a Duke public policy professor and economist who works with the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Most of the more than 7,000 guns Cook researched came from gang members who are skilled at obtaining guns because of the city's lethal gang wars. "I think that it's more likely that if Chicago did not have tough gun laws they would have higher rates of gun violence than they do have," he told Bloomberg. [/QUOTE]

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