Fact: Chicago relaxed its gun laws
Fact: violent crime gun crime has risen since.
I think I'll go with the facts, which show your implication to be false. You go ahead and go with your yellow journalism, and I'll go with my facts.
<<making it possible, but extremely expensive and difficult, >>
Funny, the rules are the same as here in my City, yet it's neither very hard nor very expensive to get one here. I see the author of your article wasn't content on reporting mere facts, but injected a bit of politics-fueled opinion into his yellow journalism.
Edited 3/19/12 by Buckyball