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How tough are Chicago�s gun laws?

A 55-year-old woman who works as a researcher at the University 
of Illinois at Chicago was jailed this week for bringing a 
pistol -- licensed, unloaded and in a case � to her office.

The woman, who also holds an �Illinois firearm owners 
registration card,� told Chicago police that she had brought the 
handgun, recently purchased for home defense, to her workplace 
because she did not want to leave it at her residence while a 
work crew was there doing a renovation project.

But Chicago has perhaps the toughest gun laws in the nation and 
carrying the weapon, even without ammunition, is a serious 
offense.

A co-worker spotted the pistol case and called police who came 
and snatched up the information specialist from her workplace. 
The Chicago Tribune reports that the woman was held on $25,000 
bond pending trial and placed on leave by the university.

Not too far away on the city�s West Side, Chicago Police were 
having less luck in dealing with another crime that day than 
they did with the case of the pistol packing information 
specialist.

An unidentified male was found stabbed to death in an alleyway, 
marking the 50th murder in the city so far this year. The victim 
was later identified as a 22-year-old from across town in 
Calumet City, but given the low rate at which the city�s 535 
murders last year were solved, it looks unlikely that police 
will soon be identifying the one who did the stabbing.

President Obama is back in his hometown today to make another 
pitch for his �cradle to career� educational initiatives. But 
while he�s in town, the president will surely have to address 
the murder epidemic that has gripped the city.

It�s not that Chicago rivals murder wastelands like New Orleans 
or Detroit, but what�s happening is very alarming for locals. 
While murder rates in the nation continue to decline, Chicago 
has seen sharp increases. While murder rates in New York dropped 
to an all time low last year, Chicago was approaching numbers 
not seen since the crack wars of the early 1990s.

So why is Chicago unraveling while New York is stabilizing? It�s 
hard to say exactly, but the city�s mayor, a former congressman, 
a former chief of staff to Obama and a potential future 
presidential contender, believes he knows. Rahm Emanuel has gone 
to war on guns.

Emanuel is doing everything he can to get the guns out of his 
city, taking up the cause with new vigor following the mass 
shooting in Connecticut last year.

But as the jailed University of Illinois at Chicago researcher 
can attest, the gun laws are already pretty darn stiff. 
Remember, it�s not as if the police discovered the mix up and 
told her to take her gun home, they took her to jail for having 
a licensed, registered weapon that without ammunition was only 
about as deadly as a desktop stapler.

And one could hardly blame her for her recent purchase of the 
weapon given the deteriorating security situation in her 
neighborhood and the city at large.

It�s not just murders. Shootings, robberies and other crimes are 
all up in the city, with shopkeepers and homeowners demanding 
protection.

As for her ignorance of the city�s gun laws, well, one supposes 
she understands now.

Emanuel urgently needs to stem the crime wave in his city. His 
political future and the city�s economic fate depend on erasing 
the growing perception of Chicago returning to its most lawless 
days, the era of Cabrini-Green and the crack wars. And at the 
very least he needs to demonstrate that it is gun makers who are 
more to blame than he, whose mayoralty has coincided with the 
crime wave.

The question for the president is whether he can make the case 
that a national gun ban would be effective in reducing murder 
rates given the results in Chicago.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/15/chicagos-murder-
epidemic-complicates-obama-gun-ban-pitch/?intcmp=obinsite

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