This year, up until July 30, about 190 teenagers 17 and under in Chicago have been the victims of gun violence, either killed or wounded. The overwhelming majority of the shooters are most likely teenagers themselves. Add those numbers to the rest of Chicago’s shootings in the last two years and one can readily see that handguns, not the so-called assault weapons, are indeed the weapons of mass destruction.
The number of teens with guns is reaching epidemic proportions in Chicago and the rest of Cook County. After the Highland Park massacre, the calls to ban assault rifles came from as far away as the White House. Make no mistake, the assault rifle is a deadly weapon in anyone’s hands. But the handgun is the more monster culprit.
