CBS 2 reports that 125 people were shot and killed this summer in Chicago.  The story further states that the number almost equals the number of troops lost in Iraq over the same period.
What are we to make of this carnage in a city with a handgun ban and some of the most onerous anti-self-defense laws in the [...]

A few weeks ago, we received a letter from unicef soliciting money to help out in violence-ridden Darfur.  If you’re as old as I am, you may remember that as children,  many of us used to take our little milk cartons and go door to door doing the “Trick or treat for unicef!” number, instead of collecting candy [...]

Presumed drug gang members apparently assassinated Mexico’s pro tem federal police chief in his home on May 8th, 2008. According to the AP story on Page 15A in the May 9th Denver Post, Edgar Millan Gomez was shot ten times.
I guess the gangsters didn’t get the memo about Mexico’s strict gun control laws and [...]

According to an AP story in the Denver Post, 13 were killed and 9 wounded in a Tijuana running gun fight over the weekend. How can that be? Mexico has gun laws of which American liberals only dream. South of the border, Mexicans enjoy gun registration, restrictive licensing, restrictions on permissible calibers [...]

An AP print story in The Rocky Mountain News on page 31, April 23rd, 2008, “Chaos among gangs,” refers to 9 deaths in 36 shootings over the past weekend in Chicago. Chicago has some of the most draconian gun control laws in the country; therefore, this orgy of gang violence indicates that the homies [...]

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