The Patriot Post® · Chicago Violence Heats Up

Now that the Windy City has thawed from perpetual winter deep freeze, the murder rate is also climbing. Over Easter weekend, nine people were murdered and another 36 wounded in the murder capital of America. Mayor Rahm Emanuel lamented: “The values that we teach our children when we hold them and read to them are timeless. They’re about right and wrong. They’re about knowing good from bad. They serve as your compass as your guide. This is our home. These streets don’t belong to the gang-bangers.” Of course, Chicago police chief Gary McCarthy blames guns: “We need help with the gun laws, because the national averages for gun violence, we are way above it as far as murder by gunshot goes.” Memo to Emanuel and McCarthy: Chicago has the most stringent restrictions on gun possession in the country. The problem is not “gun violence” but the culture of violence bred on statist “poverty plantations,” the product of generations of Democratic Party policies.