Mike Pence Pushes Guns as Indiana Bleeds
One question Donald Trump’s running mate should get at Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate: Why has he made buying guns in his state easier when Indianapolis’s murder rate tops Chicago’s?
MICHAEL DALY
10.04.16 1:15 AM ET
Donald Trump made much of the violence in President Obama’s hometown during the first 2016 presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.
Clinton might have noted in reply that Chicago’s murder rate last year was topped by the murder rate in Indianapolis, where Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, resides as the governor of Indiana.
Pence himself should be asked about it during Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate with Tim Kaine. A pre-debate fact check shows the murder rate in Indianapolis reached 16.9 per 100,000 in 2015 with 144 murders, the most in that city’s history. Chicago’s rate came in slightly lower, 16.7 per 100,000, with 468 homicides in a city with more than three times the population.
In both cities, around 80 percent of the homicides involved firearms. Chicago police note that some 20 percent of the guns recovered in crime scenes there were purchased in Indiana, where access has gone from easy to even easier.
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