3) -45% of 4,000 recent arrestees in 11 cities in 1995 reported having obtained their guns through the illegal firearms market (source 4) -Despite Chicagos 1982 ban on every type of gun, except shotguns and rifles, and the fact that it has some of the most strict gun laws in the nation, it also boasts the highest number of murders in the country, including New York, with nearly three times the population. (Source 3) **: refers to John R. Lott Jr., a professor at the University of Chicago School of Law, and author of More Guns, Less Crime Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws.E.) The anecdotal evidence of this problem make it clear that those in favor of gun control laws are only hurting those who go by the rules, those who abide by the law. -an 81 year old man named Bruno Kosinski. He was approached and attacked by two teenagers. They shoved him to the ground (pavement), sprayed him with pepper spray, and ripped his wallet from his pants. He rose to his feet, and heard a kid demanding more money. Kosinski ripped open his vest, pulled out a 38.-caliber snub nose revolver and squeezed the trigger. Kosinski escaped harm because he was carrying a concealed weapon, a felony in his home of Chicago. Nevertheless, it seems understandable that the local police commended Kosinski as a hero. Asked what a gun does for him, Kosinski replies this way: Im equal. (source 3) - George Hennard crashed a pickup truck through the front of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, on October 16, 1991, got out with two semiautomatic pistols and methodically killed 23 people in 10 minutes before police finally arrived and killed him.Dr. Suzanna Gratia, who watched as her mother and father were shot to death by Hennard, said later that she had left a pistol in her car outside the cafeteria because Texas law forbade carrying a weapon. From where she lay, she said, she had a clear shot at Hennard early on - and would have taken it. "We were sitting ducks and that...
