The following is from Jane's Intelligence Weekly. What we are seeing in Chicago and other major cities in the US is exactly what law enforcement is seeing in other cites around the world. It is gang warfare between criminal gangs.The loony leftists do not want to differentiate between legitimate firearms owners and armed criminals. It is politically correct to blame an inanimate object as the cause of crime, rather than address the real cause of the violence. In the old days, if some street punk was causing trouble, a cop raised a lump on his head with a night stick as a warning to straighten his life before he graduated to a life of crime.

Spike in murders exposes limits of security improvement in El Salvador
The average of 18 murders per day in the last three days represents the highest average number of homicides recorded in El Salvador since March 2012, when a controversial truce was signed between the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Mara 18 (M-18) gangs. The truce brought about a dramatic reduction in murders, which fell from an average of around 14 per day to approximately five.