In his Sept. 3 commentary on guns. Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks claimed that the shootings the previous weekend in Chicago received very little attention. I heard about these shootings on numerous news outlets. His claim that the left doesn’t call for stricter gun laws after these types of shootings is wrong. That Illinois has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation is a testament to how wrong he is about this claim.

These strict gun laws in Illinois came about by the left’s desire for gun control. But despite these strict gun laws, studies show that a significant number of guns recovered in Illinois, particularly in Chicago, originate from the red Republican state of Indiana. The lax gun laws in Indiana allow people in Illinois to circumvent the strict gun laws by going to

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