Jim Morin’s drawings won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996. He shared the Pulitzer in 1983 with other members of the Miami Herald editorial board, and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1977 and 1990. His work is syndicated internationally by the New York Times/CWS Syndicate.
The Miami Herald - All Rights Reserved.
Glenn McCoy by Glenn McCoy
Jack Ohman by Jack Ohman
Comments (63) (Please sign in to comment)
dtroutma
said, 4 months ago
Odd how much they spend on opponents of those they don’t like, not just those they want on their side.
wmconelly said, 4 months ago
Freedom: being ready willing and able to shoot someone, anyplace, any time. Love yer vision, NRA.
ConserveGov said, 4 months ago
Google: Chicago + Gun Laws + Murder Rate.
Laws aren’t the problem.
Kingoswald
said, 4 months ago
@ConserveGov
Ah, that would be one from that list of selective reports that the NRA gives to its Tea Party stooges so that neither they nor the Arms Manufacturers whose trade union they are have to be arsed with communicating with the public directly. Never get your hands dirty when there are mugs out there just drooling to do it for you!
Kylie2112 said, 4 months ago
http://thinkprogress.org/gun-debate-guide/
-
"
“If gun control works, Chicago ought to be safe.”
This argument is mistaken as a matter of both statistics and law. While a simple glance at rough homicide rates suggests very little difference in crime rates between cities with strict gun laws and those without, the relevant research strongly suggests that ease of acquiring guns legally increases the local gun homicide rate. A 2001 paper by Mark Duggan estimated county-by-county gun ownership, finding that counties with higher rates of gun ownership had higher gun homicide rates. A second paper, which used a different measure of gun ownership, came to a similar conclusion. Both papers found that only gun homicide rates — and a county’s other homicide or broader crime rates — is affected by gun ownership, suggesting that easy access to guns increases gun homicide by getting more guns to more people.
A third, more recent paper goes further, finding that gun ownership increased gun homicides even when you control for levels of urbanization and poverty. That is, cities with more guns, all other things being equal, will have more homicide deaths, as will poorer areas. This points to the basic statistical error in the “what about Chicago?” argument — the question isn’t whether gun regulation is the only or principal determinant of gun homicide rates, it’s whether there’d be more or less gun death in Chicago if Chicago and nearby counties did a better job restricting access to guns. Given that states with tighter gun laws also have less guns (and less gun deaths), it seems the same would hold true (again, if you hold other variables like poverty and overall crime rate constant) on the city-to-city level. Moreover, studies of cities with strong background check and illegal sales enforcement provisions have found clear evidence that imposing these measures lowered the number of guns being diverted to criminals.
There’s another, well-known problem with this conceit — lax federal and state laws make it easy to purchase guns from nearby, underregulated counties or states and bring them into cities. In Chicago, for example, gun sellers will simply set up shop just outside the city limits and sell to traffickers who bring the weapons into the city. That’s one of the key arguments for the sort of federal action being considered today, especially universal background checks at nearby gun shows to prevent this sort of trafficking. A uniform federal standard would make it much harder for criminals to take advantage of state and local variation.
"
rpmurray said, 4 months ago
Laws against guns will definitely work better than laws against drugs or laws against illegal immigration. Honest.
Becca said, 4 months ago
@ConserveGov
Spot on. Guns aren’t the problem, either.
Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago
So what other organization teaches gun safety?
Adrian Snare said, 4 months ago
@ConserveGov
Exactly what is the problem in Chicago ?
Are the laws any good ?
If so are they being enforced ?
If not, where are the “good” enforceable laws ?
IMO, the problem is people’s attitudes.
Adrian Snare said, 4 months ago
@Kylie2112
Perhaps Chicago has not changed that much since the 30s, the Al Capone days..In these crime ridden areas, we need much more of a police state.
Careful is the key-word here.
And an ability to read and write and work.
And I fully agree with the lengthy post above.
Adrian Snare said, 4 months ago
@rpmurray
What we need are laws, NOT against things , but FOR people, the masses..
And, there are liberals who are more realistic than idealistic…they should be teaching “gun safety”..and maybe they are…..you know the quality of our media …
mikefive said, 4 months ago
@Kylie2112
I am in conditional agreement with your post. The data seems logical and reasonable. The reason I say conditional is because research of this type is often weighted to support the researcher’s predisposition by finding areas that will give them the data that will support their preconceptions.
Larry said, 4 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts teach gun safety.
Billy Sargent
said, 4 months ago
Slaughter? Obviously you don’t know the meaning of the word. What happened in Libya was a slaughter. What’s happening in Syria is a slaughter. What happened to the Jews in Germany was a slaughter.
Is there a problem that needs to be addressed? Absolutely. Is the answer to a threat removing the means of responding effectively to the threat? No.
Personally, at this point, I would welcome the creation of a secession nation and let all the people who prefer to live in an environment where they’re not permitted to defend themselves be in one half of the country And the rest of us to be permitted to defend ourselves without their interference in our half. You go have your utopia, and will have ours, and never the twain shall meet.
Harrison_Bergeron said, 4 months ago
@Kingoswald
There’s that liberal mentality right there. Any reality that doesn’t fit the PC agenda must be dismissed and ignored. Ignorance is superior to knowledge, fantasy is superior to reality.