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Half of people from Chicago witness shooting by age 40 (gun violence fashion trends) - C C - May 9, 2023
US gun violence: half of people from Chicago witness a shooting by age 40, study suggests
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/988400
INTRO:
- Study following Chicagoans over a 25-year period suggests over half of the city’s Black and Hispanic population, and a quarter of its White population, have seen a shooting by age 40.
- Researchers followed over two thousand people, with 50% of all the study’s participants witnessing a shooting.
- Average age when first witnessing a shooting was just 14 years old.
- Women only slightly less likely than men to witness shootings, despite men being far more likely to get shot.
- Such levels of violence exposure may cause chronic stress and knock-on health implications for populations in Chicago and elsewhere.
White residents were exposed to gun violence at less than half the rate of Black and Hispanic residents, although it was still high: 25% of White Chicagoans had witnessed a shooting before turning forty.
Across all racial categories, 50% of the study’s participants had been exposed to gun violence by age forty. The average age to witness a shooting was just 14 years old... (MORE - details)
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Strict gun laws in Chicago undermined by neighboring state of Indiana
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-news-cb-greg-abbott-texas-gun-laws-chicago-20220527-pruljwytw5c3zmdaqhrr6q4fki-list.html
EXCERPTS: . . . . In its 2021 annual report on state gun laws, the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gave Illinois an A-, making it eighth in the nation for the strength of its gun laws. California, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey were among states that ranked higher.
[...] Indiana is frequently cited as the No. 1 source of out-of-state guns used in crimes in Cook County. In 2017, a report commissioned by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel analyzed four years of gun tracing data and found 60% of illegally used or possessed firearms recovered in Chicago come from out of state. Indiana was the primary source for approximately one in five such guns. In 95% of cases, the person with the gun was not the initial purchaser.
In 2021, Chicago filed a lawsuit against a northern Indiana gun store, claiming more than 850 illegal firearms recovered in Chicago could be traced back to a single gun shop in Gary, an establishment that the city alleged ignored the clear signs of so-called straw purchases.
In 2013, a federal indictment charged two men with illegally selling 43 firearms to a government informant in just under 26 hours, a volume made possible by gun shows and less restrictive state laws in Indiana. Private gun sales in Indiana don’t require background checks, a waiting period or even a record of the transaction.