Chicago Mayor Blames Increased Violence on Lack of Gun Control (VIDEO)

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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) on Friday blamed her city’s sharp rise in gun violence on the federal government’s failure to conduct background checks, a measure the state of Illinois has already implemented.

“We have got to make sure that we do a better job of taking guns out of the hands of criminals,” Lightfoot told MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle. “You’ve heard me say this before: We have to have a federal policy on background checks and making sure that dangerous people are not able to go across the border to states like Indiana and get military-grade weapons in quantities and then bring them back to the streets and shoot people up.”

Illinois has a universal background check system and strict permitting practices in place. That has not prevented Chicago from experiencing a rise in gun violence over the past year, punctuated by the deaths of nine children under the age of 18 between June 20 and July 5. Eighteen people were wounded by gunfire in the past two days in the city, as a drop in police activity has coincided with Lightfoot’s feud with the police union, which blames her for low morale. – READ MORE

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