Rush Limbaugh: 'Does Anyone Care About Urban Gun Violence?'

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Dec 20, 2012 5:20PM

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Walking bag of hot air Rush Limbaugh says the "anti-gun media" doesn't care about urban gun violence, specifically Chicago. “What happens in Chicago in a week dwarfs what happened in Connecticut," said Limbaugh. "Just nobody's reporting it. There's no cameras up there. You don't see it." Limbaugh said:

Have you ever heard any politician go on an anti-gun rant when you’ve heard about urban violence? Does it ever happen? I’m asking. Those stories out of Chicago were happening daily. Drudge was highlighting them. But take your pick. The Rodney King incident, whatever, the Watts riots, pick one. Post-Katrina looting in New Orleans, was the anti-gun control out in force there? They never are, are they? I wonder why that is? Why is it the anti-gun people never use violence in urban neighborhoods as an example of why we have to get rid of guns?

We might be willing to admit Limbaugh has a point. Gun violence is gun violence no matter when, how or where it happens, and it all requires our concern. Lives are ended by guns all too often, in Chicago and everywhere. We're just not sure he's been paying attention to the things Chicago has been doing to keep guns off of the streets, starting with the legal fights over Chicago's ban on handguns and Illinois concealed carry. We're offended that he would suggest Chicagoans are content with this level of gun violence.

Limbaugh continues:

Rahm Emanuel, of all the things he's said, he's not said one thing about limiting the availability of guns in Chicago after any of those incidents, has he? And if he has, it hasn't been widely reported. It hasn't been reported enough in a way that we know about it. Philadelphia, Detroit, same thing. Oakland, California, exactly right. Look at the gun violence that took place in Oakland against the cops and so forth. The anti-Second Amendment crowd never gins up, do they?

Chicago has been averaging more murder than happened in Newtown every month this year. The murder toll in Chicago is projected to reach at least 500 for this year. There are more than 41 murders a month in Chicago. The lion's share of them are taking place in poor black neighborhoods. I don't hear the Reverend Jackson or any of the anti-gun media that we're hearing from now raise a stink about guns in those places. That's absolutely right. I wonder why that is. There has to be a reason.

Note: The current 2012 homicide total in Chicago is 465, so it's looking less likely the city will break 500 homicides this year. Listen to Limbaugh's full rant in the video below.