March 4, 2010
When Chicago passed a ban on handgun ownership in
1982, it was part of a trend. Washington, D.C. had done it in 1976,
and a few Chicago suburbs took up the cause in the following years.
They all expected to reduce the number of guns and thus curtail
bloodshed. But as Steve Chapman writes, the policy turned out to be
a comprehensive dud.
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