Via CAA:
According to the Chicago Tribune’s May 1 edition:
“At least three people were killed and 17 wounded in shootings across Chicago overnight as the city saw its warmest weather in seven months.”
In the past, Chicago’s Chief of Police Garry McCarty, has blamed warm weather for his city’s gunviolence, along with pointing the finger of blame at Sarah Palin and “government sponsored racism.”
By using this metric, if the weather keeps heating up we can expect more gun violence to erupt on the streets of Chicago. Where’s Al Gore?
According to the Tribune article, “warm weather” is behind the outbreak of gun violence, not the lack of enforcement of some of the toughest anti gun laws in the United States.
Checking statistics in different countries known for their warm weather and violence, the following stats were observed:
In Afghanistan for the entire month of April a total of 17 coalition force personnel were killed, seereport
In a recent 5 day period in all of Iraq, a total of 25 civilians and police were killed, see report.