{"id":17013,"date":"2018-02-23T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:26:02","slug":"fact-check-is-chicago-proof-that-gun-laws-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/02\/23\/fact-check-is-chicago-proof-that-gun-laws-dont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFact Check: Is Chicago Proof That Gun Laws Don&#8217;t Work?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>One of the main talking points for gun-control opponents these days goes something like this: \u201cChicago has the strongest gun-control laws in the country, but people kill each other all the time there. Therefore, gun-control laws don\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019ve seen that said by multiple people in the news in the past week, and I haven\u2019t seen any refutations of it. So here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/05\/555580598\/fact-check-is-chicago-proof-that-gun-laws-don-t-work\">refutation<\/a>, from last October.<\/p>\r\n<p>The key point here is that a large percentage of Chicago\u2019s guns come from nearby states that don\u2019t have strong gun-control laws.<\/p>\r\n<p>I feel like it\u2019s also important to note that often (but not always), the Chicago thing is accompanied by racist comments about \u201cblack-on-black violence.\u201d At CPAC the other day, an NRA representative went so far as to dog-whistle that trope by saying that the media obviously doesn\u2019t care about black people because they don\u2019t cover Chicago\u2019s gun violence. The audience loved that bit. :(<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17014,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions\/17014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}