<p>Halloween weekend was deadly for the city of Chicago, where 17 people were fatally shot and another 42 were wounded between Friday and Monday.</p>
<p>Seven of the victims were under the age of twenty.  ;</p>
<p>President Obama&#8217;s hometown is ;generally at the top of the charts for murder rate, and the city has some of the ;strictest gun control laws in the nation. As PB has pointed out many times in the past, removing guns from a society does not make it safer. Such laws leave innocent citizens unarmed and at the mercy of the bad guys. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city,&rdquo; said Donald Trump during the October 19th debate. ;</p>
<p>2016 has been a particularly bloody year for the Windy City, and Halloween weekend pushed the number of homicides to the highest point we&rsquo;ve seen since 2003. ;The death toll seems to be the combined result of draconian gun laws and gang violence, the latter of which tends to peak in the summer. ;</p>
<p>There were 79 homicides during the month of October (more than twice the amount of killings 30 years ago), pushing the total homicide count for 2016 to ;653.</p>
<p>More than 3,600 people have suffered gunshot wounds in Chicago this year, and the total number of shooting incidents for 2016 is more than 40% higher than it was in 2015.</p>
<p><strong>Year to Date Stats:</strong></p>
<p>&bull; Shot &; Killed: 584</p>
<p>&bull; Shot &; Wounded: 3,104</p>
<p>&bull; Total Shot: 3,688 ;</p>
<p>The weekend&#8217;s youngest victim, Demarco ;Webster Jr., was just 14 years old. He was shot to death at 1:20am on Saturday while helping his father move out of his apartment. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t believe it,&rdquo; said Demarco&rsquo;s stepfather. &ldquo;I feel like this is the worst city. I don&rsquo;t really understand what is really going on. It&rsquo;s just not safe. But I feel like it&rsquo;s going on everywhere now. No matter where you go.&rdquo; ;</p>