don t help. maybe the city needs more gang cops, cops that break up the gangs but they certainly don t need more gun laws. the cops don t get on the street and do foot patrol. they stay in the car. they don t form militia. andrea: a lot of culprits are the young kids. don t put pressure on them. they protest it. last year alone 96% of gun felonies were not even prosecuted in the town. so, how do you fix it from here? dana: everyone is focusing on the wrong problem. gun issue, i would like it if we waved a magic wand and there was never more gun violence. the root cause is the dissol lution of the family. underperforming school. if you take a map of chicago and overlay gun violence and the crimes and the drug abuse or drug war crimes,
maybe the city needs more gang cops, cops that break up the gangs but they certainly don t need more gun laws. the cops don t get on the street and do foot patrol. they stay in the car. they don t form militia. andrea: a lot of culprits are the young kids. don t put pressure on them. they protest it. last year alone 96% of gun felonies were not even prosecuted in the town. so, how do you fix it from here? dana: everyone is focusing on the wrong problem. gun issue, i would like it if we waved a magic wand and there was never more gun violence. the root cause is the dissol lution of the family. underperforming school. if you take a map of chicago and overlay gun violence and the crimes and the drug abuse or drug war crimes,
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there are more than 300 million guns in the u.s.a. right now. so thugs are going to get them. also, the government has an obligation to protect americans with laws that do not harm law abiding citizens. that means that any new gun laws must allow we, the people, to protect ourselves as the founding fathers mandated. talking points has no problem with background checks. or with gun registration. after all, we register our cars. but these things should be decided by the individual states, not the federal government. if the state like new york wants to ban assault rifles, fine. but wyoming may not want to do that. and the feds should respect the states rights. what president obama can do is make all gun crimes federal crimes. congress can forbid individuals from crossing state lines with certain types of weapons. bank robbery is a federal crime. so is some drug dealing. why not put gun felonies in
300 million guns in the u.s.a. right now. so thugs are going to get them. also, the government has an obligation to protect americans with laws that do not harm law abiding citizens. that means that any new gun laws must allow we, the people, to protect ourselves as the founding fathers mandated. talking points has no problem with background checks. or with gun registration. after all, we register our cars. but these things should be decided by the individual states, not the federal government. if the state like new york wants to ban assault rifles, fine. but wyoming may not want to do that. and the feds should respect the states rights. what president obama can do is make all gun crimes federal crimes. congress can forbid individuals from crossing state lines with certain types of weapons. bank robbery is a federal crime. so is some drug dealing. why not put gun felonies in