Your correlation between joblessness and gun violence is spurious at best. Chicago has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, and needless to say the old pro-gun argument that criminals don't obey gun laws is absolute truth. I'd wager a precious weeks wages that not a single weapon used in any of those crimes was legally obtained, and therein lies all the difference. I live in the most economically-depressed state in the union, my career was downsized and I had to start a completely new job path from scratch at half the pay I was making, yet at …
