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Nation Chicago Ban May Test Ruling Challenges Follow Justices' Decision on DC Gun-Control Law In May 2007, Annette Nance-Holt's teenage son Blair Holt was shot to death on a Chicago bus. In May 2007, Annette Nance-Holt's teenage son Blair Holt was shot to death on a Chicago bus.
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Peter Slevin and Kari Lydersen Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, July 6, 2008; Page A02 CHICAGO -- One small reflection of Chicago's bloody year is a sign outside a South Side school that says, "Congratulations Class of 2008. The school is not a college or a high school, but Carnegie Elementary in Woodlawn.
Mayor Richard M Daley thinks the Supreme Court majority that overturned the District's gun ban last month is detached from urban reality. "If they think that's the answer, then they're greatly mistaken," Daley protested after hearing that Chicago's 26-year-old gun law is at risk. "Then why don't we do away with the court system and go back to the Old West? You have a gun and I have a gun, and we'll settle in the streets." Chicago officials say they have reason to be concerned about the high court's decision. The city looks likely to provide the next critical test of the justices' ruling as courts decide how far the decision extends to other cities and the 50 states.
University of Chicago, close to some of the city's most violent precincts, made clear that some restrictions would be permitted, but the majority opinion left unclear what standards courts should use to assess them.
FBI veteran, said the court's ruling will "no doubt" make police work harder in a city in which 75 percent of all murders are committed with firearms. Chicago's murder totals, like those in many large cities, have fallen to less than half the number of the bloody early 1990s. Yet 442 people were killed in the city last year, prompting a debate about tactics, including the effectiveness of a gun ban enacted in 1982. It was a subject widely discussed after the court's ruling. "If you ban guns for law-abiding citizens, you will just create a black market with more profit and increase the number of guns on the street," said Tom Sibley, 38, a graphic designer who lives in a southwest Chicago neighborhood where gang violence is commonplace. Stephanie Lewis, 16, was surprised to learn that the ban exists, considering the availability of guns.
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