Homicide In Chicago In 1967: A Case Study

82% of the homicides in Chicago in 1967 occurred as a result of altercations-domestic, money, liquor, etc.-precisely the situa- tions where the intention is more apt to be ambiguous rather than single-minded. Third, a comparison of victims of homicide with victims of serious assaults, with respect to their race and sex, shows: Victims of homicides and victims of serious assaults are distributed quite similarly by race and sex among the population and differ substantially in these characteristics from the Chicago population as a whole. (See Table 3.) Next, it should be noted that only 30% of the victims of fatal gunshot attacks in 1967 were wounded by more than one shot. While data are not available on the number of shots fired, it may be readily assumed that the majority of the 70%/ of single wound homicides occurred in situations where the attacker did not exhaust the multiple shot capacity of his firearm. Finally, in 54% of the situations which led to homicide in 1967, the police noted that the offender or the victim or both had been drinking prior to the homicidal attack. This figure probably does not include a number of situations in which the police officer was unable to determine whether intoxicants were involved ( Frank Z., 1968).

Obviously, people won’t get hurt with gun, and they will be safety in public when they are shopping in the mall, and saving money in the bank. Although, they might meet some thief on the street, perhaps, they can fight back. Because thief didn’t possess guns, so it worth to try. In addition, it is about effects of individual safety. Sometimes, people are scared when they are sleeping at night because they are afraid of that thief would hold guns break the door. However, if people don’t have any firearms, they don’t have to be scared and don’t have to put more energy on personal