Chiraq
There have been 47 more murders, 224 more shootings, and 187 additional non-fatal shooting victims than last year. In the summer of 2012, many major media outlets compared the homicide rate in Chicago to that of the Holocaust and Afghanistan. One year, Chicago's murder rate was higher than Iraq's, which gave Chicago the nickname "Chiraq" "Chicago will never turn its back on its own children. We are better than that," Mayor Emanuel said Monday morning during a press conference. Over the past four years there were over four hundred homicides every year, including this year it is already been three hundred twelve murders and it is only in august and Chicago is on track to get to four hundred homicides. The highest number of homicides were in two thousand twelve when the death toll was five hundred nine homicides. This week of August 23rd to August 29th there has already been fifty-three shootings and ten murders, nine out of those ten were shootings. The number of people killed in two thousand eleven it was four hundred forty-one homicides and in two thousand twelve there was five hundred …show more content…
They can decide what guns are not meant to be in the hands of an American citizen. Gun control is necessary not only in the United States, but in the world. Guns are killing the youth, and in if we could make it harder to get guns on the black market, in Chicago they are changing their focus from drugs according to Mayor Rahm Emanuel he also said "While we have made important strides to refocus our resources in the past four years, there are still a number of highly trained police officers doing administrative work," the mayor said in a statement. "So we asked a simple question of officers filling administrative roles: Do you need a gun, a star and arrest powers to do your