In the 1\/4\/22 Chicago Tribune, community activist Arne Duncan wrote an op-ed titled \u201cMy Group\u2019s Violence Prevention Efforts Have Taught Me What Works and What Doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duncan writes,\u201c\u2026\u00a0there is a profound lack of understanding among leadership about everyday life in our high-crime communities. For example, Chicago confiscates more guns than any other city in America, yet there is little correlation between the number of guns confiscated and the number of homicides.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Duncan adds, \u201cIn 2015, the city collected almost 6,800 guns and had fewer than 500 homicides. The following year, it collected 8,400 guns and had 770 homicides. In 2020, Chicago collected more than 11,000 guns and still had about 770 homicides. Last year, it collected over 12,000 guns and had about 800 homicides,\u201d <\/strong>and continues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe problem is that most people arrested on gun charges are not likely shooters. Chicago police are mostly arresting people who are simply scared for their lives. They carry guns to go to the store, visit their moms, pick up kids at school or go to work because they don\u2019t feel safe. Even men with a record will take the chance of being arrested with an illegal gun and sent back to prison rather than go out unarmed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duncan then goes on to say, \u201cI fully support removing guns from the community, but that approach is clearly insufficient. If we solved more homicides and shootings, fewer people would feel the need to be armed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n OK, let me get this straight (and by the way, I\u2019m the one who applied the bold lettering above): you admit confiscating guns doesn\u2019t reduce homicides, you recognize many people are carrying them in genuine self-defense, and you still want to eradicate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arne Duncan, it would have been more helpful if you\u2019d told those community people you\u2019re trying to reach that if they identified the killers to the police \u2013 you know, the same killers they are afraid of and want to wreak vengeance on \u2013 that <\/em>might be an effective new strategy to solve your city\u2019s murder problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, Mr. Duncan is reported to be considering running for mayor of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the 1\/4\/22 Chicago Tribune, community activist Arne Duncan wrote an op-ed titled \u201cMy Group\u2019s Violence Prevention Efforts Have Taught Me What Works and What Doesn\u2019t.\u201d Duncan writes,\u201c\u2026\u00a0there is a profound lack of understanding among leadership about everyday life in our high-crime communities. For example, Chicago confiscates more guns than any other city in America, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7111,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions\/7111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}