Deadly Traffic

July, 1999

I live in Chicago in a mixed-income, but mostly well-off, neighborhood on the South Side. Every week I read the police blotter in the neighborhood paper and breathe a sigh of relief when the crimes at gunpoint--there are always crimes at gunpoint--happen on someone else's block. No matter how many illegal guns the police seize, thousands more keep pouring in.The city of Chicago banned handguns in 1982, yet the city has become the murder capital of America. Since 1965, handguns have killed 17,000...