I used the weekend carnage as an example, not as the focal point of a study. The study would be on the yearly number of homicides and shootings which have been on a steady rise.
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NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO IN 2011
441
NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO IN 2012
535
NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO AS OF
July 15, 2013
232
NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO IN 2011
2,217
NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO AS IN 2012
2,670
NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO AS OF July 9, 2013
1,214
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I merely believe that Chicago can be an excellent laboratory for studying the statistics pre and post CCW permit laws.
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Gun Control: The premise that a woman found in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is morally superior to allowing that same woman to defend her life with a firearm.
"Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." - Jules Henri Poincare
"Three thousand people died on Sept. 11 because eight pilots were killed"
-- former Northwest Airlines pilot Stephen Luckey
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