Clinton Supporter Blames Trump & NRA for Chicago Gun Violence

National Rifle Association Institute For Legislative Action (NRA-ILA)
National Rifle Association Institute For Legislative Action (NRA-ILA)

Washington, DC – -(Ammoland.com)- The self-proclaimed “Dean of Comedy,” radio talk show host Dean Obeidallah, has blamed a Chicago African-American mother’s murder, allegedly by repeat offenders, on NRA’s opposition to gun control, and he’s attacked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for attributing inner city murders to policies that Clinton supports.

Earlier this month, the young woman was murdered while walking a baby stroller on Chicago’s South Side. Two suspects have been arrested and the additional details are illuminating. The Chicago Tribune reports that one of the suspects “served three years in state prison for 2013 convictions of receiving, possessing or selling a stolen vehicle and for unlawful use or possession of a firearm by a felon, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records. He was paroled in early February. He was convicted in 2011 of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to five years on that charge. He also has felony convictions from 2007 for aggravated battery in a public place and aggravated battery causing great bodily harm.” The other suspect “served four years in state prison for 2012 convictions of possession of a stolen vehicle and violating the terms of his electronic monitoring.”

That second suspect, USA Today reports, “was just released from prison two weeks before Friday’s shooting.” ABC reports that “one of the men was wearing an ankle monitor at the time of the shooting and that both men are ‘documented gang members.’”

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson characterized the “reprehensible act of violence” by two criminals recently released from prison as “the example of why we need to change the way we treat habitual offenders in the city of Chicago.” Johnson is right about that. Nationally, as the incarceration of criminals has increased, the violent crime rate has decreased.

Crime and Incarrceration Numbers
Crime and Incarrceration Numbers

However, Illinois has lagged behind the nation as a whole, in this regard.

Prisoner per 500k Violent Crimes Illinois & the USA
Prisoner per 500k Violent Crimes Illinois & the USA

Clinton takes the opposite view, of course, saying that the problem is “excessive incarceration.” In this way, she agrees with President Obama, who, the Washington Times reports, “commuted the prison sentences Tuesday for another 111 federal convicts, including some convicted of firearms violations. The commutations bring to 325 the number of convicts granted clemency this month alone by Mr. Obama. The White House said it was the most commutations by a president in one month ever.”

In stark contrast, Trump has promised to restore law and order if elected president. If he succeeds, it would benefit African-Americans more than any other group, because the per capita murder rate among that group is the highest in the country.

While the Census Bureau reports that African-Americans account for 13 percent of the U.S. population, the FBI reports that in 2014, they accounted for 61 percent of murder victims whose racial backgrounds were known.

Obeidallah sees things through the same light-bending lens as Clinton and Obama, saying that if Trump wants to help African-Americans, he “should publicly support universal background checks to close what has been called the ‘gun show loophole.’” However, Obeidallah doesn’t explain how requiring background checks on private transfers of firearms or any of the other expansions of the background check system that Clinton and Obama support would have stopped the two suspects in the murder of the woman in Chicago.

ATF reports that the average time between the first sale of a gun and its recovery by law enforcement agencies if used in a crime is 11.8 years in Illinois. During that time, a firearm could change hands lawfully multiple times, and subsequently be stolen or bought illegally by a straw purchaser. Thefts and straw purchasers are the ongoing Achilles Heels of the background check system, likely accounting for a majority of all firearms acquired by violent criminals.

Obeidallah ignores or is unaware of these facts, saying “federal [gun control] laws are desperately needed to establish nationwide standards.” But a slew of “nationwide standards” already exists in the form of the Gun Control Act of 1968. Several states, including Illinois, impose even more restrictive laws, but as murder rates in many urban areas such as Chicago demonstrate, these misguided policies are not the answer.

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The Duke of Phaughtingwell

Making written observations about the present state of the country is a waste of time. We are all sitting on our backsides waiting to see what happens in the November election, then half of the country will gripe endlessly for at least the next four years. Our country is on the brink of self destruction which will be the opening for possible invasion. We must realize that the country has been invaded already from internal sources known as gangs. Politicians babble endlessly about what they are going to do, knowing that nothing will really be done because someone’s feelings might… Read more »

Darren P.

“Gun rights make equal rights which makes individuals rights” What a good statement. I also find it true that liberals only see what they think is good for the whole, and what’s not best for the individual. The are sad, mislead precious snowflakes that need a real taste of reality. Lets these progressives walk down the streets of Chicago and see then how they feel about their safety and what’s best for the individual.

marc disabled vet

Like in all major Dem run cities & some not , so major, crime is rampant . an overly large part, of that crime is black on black due to the area’s that they are force to live. Blacks who have pushed, past he shackels of repression place on them by the Dem party ( that they continue to vote for ) and move into suburbia crime for them, drops to nill or nothing. Leaders in these cities keep getting richer. as the inner cities decay and burn.Their cronnies come in and buy up , the leftovers for peanuts, Build… Read more »

Gene Ralno

Forget the notion that these guys might have sufficient intelligence to blame the shooters.

Mike McAllister

The liberals lie to get what they want and most time they don’t even know that that is. When the black community in Chicago wake up and see that all the liberals are doing is keeping them down for their own ends the city will start to heal. Until then it’s going to be murder as always.

Sir Publius

I’ve followed a lot of what this Dean Obeidallah character has written over the years, and he’s a partisan hack, and more than that, a really really hate-filled guy. REAL liberals….they are for guns and gun rights. Gun rights mean equal rights. All progressives should love the 2nd Amendment. The fact that they don’t exposes them as statist, not real liberals at all: https://mattsamerica.wordpress.com/2016/09/04/why-progressives-should-love-the-2nd-amendment/

Janek

The lies being told are so outrageous you have to laugh when you hear them. After all in Democratic circles Dean Obeidallah is the ‘Dean of Comedy’?

Eric_CA

True. However, some actually believe those lies.