Interesting

Over at Days of our Trailers*, Thirdpower has a post up about a couple of reports that are VERY worth the read.

The report on crime in Chicago is really telling. The things I found the most interesting were that 95.7% of all the murders in the Union of Soviet Socialist Chicagoans were committed by those with PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORDS! It doesn't distinguish misdemeanor versus felony record. The other graph I found interesting was that 107 of 134 murders were with firearms, in a city with a ban on handguns and mandatory registration of all long guns.

There is gun bans in action.