gfh.jpgChicago outlawed handgun sales in 1981. In the past week, there have been 40 shootings.

CHICAGO—Deputy Police Chief Eugene Williams had a tough week. Wednesday morning, a two-story house in his jurisdiction on the South Side. Five people, shot dead. The following afternoon, two more shootings. Another that night, non-fatal, shot in the leg and back. And all of this following a hail of gunfire that had peppered the city’s toughest neighborhoods just a few days before: In less than a week, more than 40 shootings, at least a dozen of them fatal.

Hey Chicago - how’s that workin’ for ya?