What about Chicago?

If you’ve tuned in to talk radio, chances are good you’ve heard the host or the guest (or both) deflect calls for increased gun control by pointing to Chicago as some sort of crime-ridden wasteland where disarming law-abiding citizens has directly led to a spike in shooting deaths.

Well, Ted Cruz, who once showed his love of guns by using an assault-style rifle to cook bacon, tweeted Monday that “Gun control doesn’t work. Look at Chicago” after Breitbart News reported that 25 people were shot in the “Democrat-controlled” city over the long holiday weekend.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired back:

“ ‘Keep our name out of your mouth.’ ”

She deployed the chart below to show that 60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside Illinois — “mostly from states dominated by coward Republicans like you who refuse to enact commonsense gun legislation.” (What’s more, NPR and other fact checkers have rated as false the claim that Chicago’s gun laws are the country’s strictest, particularly after the Supreme Court in 2008 effectively struck down a municipal ban on handguns. A city gun-registry program in effect for decades ended with the 2013 enactment in Illinois of a state law allowing concealed carry.)

She wasn’t finished, either:

Lightfoot, inaugurated on May 20 as successor to Rahm Emanuel, has called for stricter gun laws in response to the recent mass shootings across the country, and this isn’t the first time she’s gotten into a Twitter TWTR, +1.62% tangle in defense of her city. Last month, she took the fight to Ivanka Trump over a tweet following the El Paso and Dayton shootings whose grammatical construction rendered it highly inaccurate.

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