It also packs the added rhetorical punch of being closely linked to President Obama, whose actions Trump has worked hard to undo.īut while gun violence in Chicago is high, the rest of this common talking point doesn't really hold water. This can sound like a potent talking point - it is a huge city with a notorious crime problem, which Trump already used regularly to talk about creating law and order. The right-wing site Breitbart has on many occasions posted articles with headlines containing the phrase "gun-controlled Chicago." Politics A Familiar, Partisan Response In Congress To Las Vegas MassacreĪnd the rhetoric goes beyond politicians. Pointing to Chicago to suggest that gun laws don't work is not a new talking point - Trump claimed Chicago had "the toughest gun laws in the United States" in a 2016 presidential debate his fellow Republican candidate Chris Christie likewise pointed to Chicago as a place with high crime despite tight gun laws.
"I think if you look to Chicago where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year they have the strictest gun laws in the country. "I think one of the things we don't want to do is try to create laws that won't stop these types of things from happening," Sanders said Monday. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't give a definite response to these questions, but her statement showed a White House hesitant to create new regulations. In the wake of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas this week, the White House faced questions about whether President Trump would support stricter gun legislation. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts the daily press briefing at the White House on Monday in Washington, D.C.
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