Chicago Mayor Delusional About City’s Violence

Chicago has become something of a joke among the gun rights crowd. After all, if gun control worked, Chicago would likely be some kind of Utopia. People would gather in the streets and spontaneously break into song and dance like they were in some kind of Broadway musical or something. It would be absolute Heaven on Earth.

That’s not what happens in Chicago, though. Chicago is a rough, violent city that is held up as a hallmark of anti-gun policy failures.

It seems the mayor of Chicago is a bit delusional about just why that’s the case, though.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot rejects claims gun control has failed her city and instead blames states without as many gun laws.

In an interview posted by New This News only days removed from a weekend in which 41 were shot, nine fatally, in Chicago, Lightfoot blamed Chicago’s gun crime on Indiana. She described Indiana’s laws as too lax, and suggested the laws allow criminals to travel out of state, acquire guns, then return and use those guns criminally on the streets of Chicago.

Lightfoot then suggested more federal gun control is the central solution for Chicago gun crime, that universal background checks must be enacted from the top down.