8 homicides in 1 day.

[Johnny Cupcakes]

In comparison, you could look at the city of Milwaukee, who has some of the lightest gun laws in the country. Where you are allowed to carry either open or concealed......where you do not need a permit to purchase, a license to operate, or a registration to own.....where there are no assault weapon or magazine restrictions, and things such as the castle doctrine are in place. We're talking about a city that ranked 9th in violent crime rate in 2013, then more than doubled the murder rate from last year to this year (YTD), where police chief Edward Flynn has cited the cities' "absurdly weak gun laws" for the rise in homicides.

But light gun laws supposedly stop this violent crime, or so the gun-nut right wing freedom fighters tell us.

OR...we could set bias aside, and look at both of these cities and make the conclusion that neither heavy gun laws nor light gun laws have an effect on how violent segments of the population are going to act. Regardless of your political agenda, gun laws (either way) don't seem to have an effect. It's a cultural problem and a mental health problem, and has little to do with whether or not citizens can lawfully own and carry guns.