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1965: 395
1973: 864 CHICAGO MURDER TOTALS BY YEAR
1974: 970
1981: 877
1982: 668; chicago handgun ban goes in effect due high murder rate
CHICAGO, April 12, 1982— The {handgun ban} ordinance, which took effect Friday, freezes the number of legally registered pistols in the city and outlaws further ownership.
.. the upshot is that the 668 murders in 1982 were a DROP from the 877 in 1981, & the ban was in effect in 1982 for 9 months. The first year was effective (so was DC's) but then thugs discovered ways to bypass the handgun ban.
1983: 729
1984: 741
1985: 666
1986: 744
1987: 691
1988: 660
1989: 742
1990: 851
1991: 927
1992: 943
1993: 855 Chicago's AWB (cook co) enacted 1993
1994: 931
1995: 828
1996: 796
1997: 761
1998: 704
1999: 643
2000: 633 (CHICAGO MURDER TOTALS BY YEAR)
2001: 667
2002: 656
2003: 601
2004: 453
2005: 451
2006: 471
2007: 448
2008: 513
2009: 459
2010: 436
2011: 435 ....... handguns allowed in chicago after McDonald decision by scalia
2012: 506 .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago
Chicago had an outright ban on handguns from 1982 until 2010, when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. So there’s no reason to believe that strict regulations on gun ownership were responsible for a spike in gun homicides in 2012, two years after Chicago was forced to loosen its gun laws. Moreover, there’s simply no credible evidence that wider gun ownership or looser gun laws reduce crime. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/15/1599631/no-chicago-isnt-proof-that-gun-regulation-doesnt-work/
Chicago’s gun laws aren’t the cause of the recent uptick in violence, nor does it prove that gun regulations are ineffectual. If anything, it underscores the need for tighter federal laws.
.. Most significantly, it is important to understand that Chicago is not an island. Although Chicago has historically had strict gun laws, laws in the surrounding parts of Illinois were much laxer — enabling middlemen to supply the criminals in Chicago with guns they purchased elsewhere. 43% of the guns seized by {cops} in Chicago were originally purchased in other parts of Illinois. The remaining 57% of Chicago guns all came from out of state, most significantly from nearby Indiana and distant Mississippi — neither of which are known for their strict gun laws.
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