re: #281 HappyWarrior

Chicago is picked because:
1) Obama lived there
2) Hillary is from there
3) high minority population

Why Chicago epitomizes everything wrong with right wing claims about gun violence and gun control.

Chicago (and Illinois) is surrounded by states with lax gun laws allowing guns to flow into the state despite strong gun laws in Illinois and Chicago.

Illinois has a lower per capita gun death rate than Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

What’s interesting from the map is that there’s some correlation with strong gun law states benefit from having other strong gun law states bordering it - reinforcing the gun laws and reducing the flow of guns into those states.