Name:   Buteye - Subject:   El Paso. Yep somebody has to broach the subject Date:   8/4/2019 7:51:20 PM

You mention Chicago and their gun conrol laws, but Baltimore is even more interesting. Maryland also has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Since Baltimore has been a hot topic in the news lately, I found some interesting information relative to their homicides there. Murders occur so frequently in Baltimore that the number of homicides in the city is higher than the number in Phliadelpha, even though Philadelphia has two and a half times the population. Baltimore sees more murders than New York City and Chicago, despite an "assault weapons ban", a "high capacity" magazine ban, and special fingerprinting and reporting requirements on handgun sales. In 2017, Baltimore "set a new per capita homicide record" for roughly 56 killings per 100,000 people.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             The violence in Baltimore has been  so rempant that a fourth facility was built with $43.6 million in taxpayer money in 2010 to hold the dead before autopsies could be performed. In 2016, it cost the city $344,000 to perform autopsies on homicide victimes. It cost the city another  $3.3 million to bury them. For bodies that weren't claimed by family,they were give to medical science and then cremated. The cost of cremation is borne by the state. Baltimore was named the "most dangerous city in America" in 2017. According to data analyzed, the overwhelming majority of guns used in Baltimore's homicides in 2017 were illegally possessed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   What is it going to take for people to understand that the "major cities" in the United States with the highest number of "homicides" are governed by Democrats and the same is true for the  "major cities" that have turned into refuges for the "homeless" and are also "sanctuary" cities.