In the years leading up to world war ii. Fortyeight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Television for serious readers. Now here is a look at gun violence in america. Good evening and welcome to the public library. I am it was the last of the author talks for the season. I hope you will take some time and look around and see our beautiful renovated library. Before we begin i do have a few housekeeping things to mention. First, i would like everyone to pre to please silence yourself on. And lastly, although we do not allow food or drink if you like to continue your conversation after our event the cafe is offering a 10 discount on food and non alcoholic beverages tonight. [applause]. Thank you all for being here for this essential sadly essential event i will be very brief there is a lot to come tonight. I will begin partially if thats okay its just how i tend to do especially with the subject like all of you im sure we all detest violence. And im sure im not alone when
Hall event, anything . The cross hairs, from the South Shore Cultural Center in chicago, here is chris hayes. [ applause ] good evening from chicago, im chris hayes, i am thrilled to be here for a special town hall event in this incredible city. Its americas thirdlargest city and its special to me. But lately as someone here put it, its become the poster child for violence in america. This is due to a real surge of violence but also in part to the perception of this city as expressed so loudly and frequently by the new president of the United States. In chicago theyve had thousands of shootings, thousands and im saying where is this . Is this a war torn country . What are we doing . By the way, toughest gun laws in the world, chicago, and people are shooting themselves all other the place, okay . The problem is not that there are too many police, there are not enough police. Its worse than some of the places that we read about in the middle east. We have wars going on. Its so sad. Chic
The cross hairs, from the South Shore Cultural Center in chicago, here is chris hayes. [ applause ] good evening from chicago, im chris hayes, i am thrilled to be here for a special town hall event in this incredible city. Its americas thirdlargest city and its special to me. But lately as someone here put it, its become the poster child for violence in america. This is due to a real surge of violence but also in part to the perception of this city as expressed so loudly and frequently by the new president of the United States. In chicago theyve had thousands of shootings, thousands and im saying where is this . Is this a war torn country . What are we doing . By the way, toughest gun laws in the world, chicago, and people are shooting themselves all other the place, okay . The problem is not that there are too many police, there are not enough police. Its worse than some of the places that we read about in the middle east. We have wars going on. Its so sad. Chicago has become so sad.