CBS : Nearly 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer

An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period...

According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.

In the same time period, an estimated 245 people were shot and wounded in the city.

I'm sure all those deaths in Chicago were delivered by registered firearms. Which you know was the initial justification for the mandated registration. I asked my father-in-law, retired Chicago Dick for 35 years, how many times his cases were solved by tracking a registered weapon to the criminal? His response: Never.

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