I should also point out that since it's illegal to purchase a gun in Chicago it's not at all surprising that guns in Chicago happen to come from gun shops immediately outside the city borders.
Do you still stand by your claim about stricter gun laws not making people safer though? Clearly the gun laws in Chicago are irrelevant to the point. This is the problem with so many arguments we see from the gun lobby, they technically can claim to have some highly legalistic version of the truth, but with little bearing on actual reality. This does not need to be the case.
I do believe a large majority of Americans would be fine with high gun ownership levels, if only there was a safe, healthy, well informed and responsible gun ownership culture to go with it. Many gun owners do meet that description, but far too many don't and any attempts to rectify that or even provide evidence based advice are blocked at every turn.
