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Chicago Going After Gun Manufacturers Instead of Criminals?

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    FBN’s Lou Dobbs on efforts to curb the high murder rate in Chicago.

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We had not won anything.

Until a kid can go to school thinking of their study.

-- -- -- -- -- In all our communities.

Because I do not want to see.

Another child's name on a memorial.

Killed by -- -- yeah.

But of course that's exactly -- Rahm Emanuel has seen since winning -- election back in February.

Of Tony eleven.

Any said the right thing he and he -- and everyone assure pledging to fight gun violence.

Unfortunately Chicago is now the murder capital of this country.

42 people have been killed 42 people have already been killed in Chicago.

This year.

42.

People there -- on track it.

To match last year which was a deadly -- performance.

It is the deadliest January since 2002.

There were 506 people as -- -- killed in Chicago last year.

506.

506.

People killed that's up 17%.

From the previous year when mayor Emanuel took profits by comparison.

New York had 414.

New York had 400 in fourteen.

Murders and it has a population three times that of Chicago.

And you'll be shocked.

At how many people are getting away with murder in Chicago.

According to Chicago police statistics.

34%.

34% of murders there.

Yet solved within the calendar year in which they occur if you give detectives in Chicago two years barely 50%.

Barely 50%.

It's all else that's right if you have a 5050 shot -- getting away with murder in the windy city compare that to a nationwide rate.

64%.

Of murder cases are solved nationwide.

In the first -- 64%.

New -- 60%.

But instead of going after the gang bangers the gang here's the bad guys behind gun violence.

Mayor Emanuel has chosen to go after the gun manufactures making all sorts of statements.

Trying to coerce banks that do business with the gun manufacturers and mutual funds.

That invest in pension funds that invest.

In gun manufactures instead of going after the criminals and illegal guns.

Mayor Emanuel is going after.

Legal gun owners this time issuing a proposal to require his citizens to report private gun sales and transfers as if they are the problem.

Instead of doing something to tackle the city's almost 27 billion dollars.

In unfunded pension liabilities.

The boards assure congress municipal employees and teachers retirement funds just voted.

To -- more than a million dollars from the bonds.

In three companies that manufacture.

Rifles.

Extremely successful companies by the way.

Mayor Emanuel is playing games and by the way it's he's not alone in this it's happening across the country and it's happening in Washington DC.

But the reality is the longer these games -- -- The more time we give to Chicago's gains.

And two other criminals all across this country.

And mr.

-- Chicago residents certainly don't care who does business with what bank and neither should you.

Please.

You.

Folks in Washington around the country who have that responsibility.

Save us the speeches -- the posturing and do the hard work.

To get this problem solved.

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