Lori Lightfoot: If Trump Is Concerned About Violent Crimes, He Should Go After Gun Manufacturers, Gun Stores

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LIGHTFOOT: “This is not about violent crime, and I don‘t think we should pretend that this manufactured crisis and his attempt to provoke people in Chicago is legitimate exercise of power. It is not. Coming into Chicago with troops would violate the Posse Comitatus Act, and he would find the same result as he did in L.A. and in California. If he really cared about violent crime, go after the gun manufacturers who are just mass producing these weapons and have no liability or accountability. Go after the gun stores that know that they‘re selling to straw purchasers that flood into our city. Pass commonsense gun reform that we have been begging for, for decades. Those are the kinds of things that actually would make a meaningful difference in violent crime. He‘s not talking about any of those things. He will not do any of those things because this is not about violent crime. It‘s about something else."