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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

Too many Chicagoans witness gun violence. Stop flooding our city and nation with firearms.

Police investigate the Evanston scene where three teens were shot, one fatally, in the 1800 block of Sheridan Road at Clark Street Beach near Northwestern University on April 12. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

When a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association tells us half of Chicagoans will witness a shooting by age 40, is it fair to suspect some gun advocates think that half is not enough?

Is it fair to guess they think that, as more people witness shootings, they will be more likely to buy guns for their protection — furthering the gun lobby’s goal of putting more guns in the hands of more Americans and turning the nation into an armed camp?

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