{"id":2481725,"date":"2025-09-03T03:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-blames-citys-violence-problem-on-red-states\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:13:43","slug":"chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-blames-citys-violence-problem-on-red-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-blames-citys-violence-problem-on-red-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson blames city\u2019s violence problem on \u2018red states\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The article discusses Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s stance on the city’s ongoing violence problem, which remains significant despite some recent declines in homicide rates. Johnson, who has been in office since May 2023, oversees a city that consistently records the highest number of homicides in the United States. He rejected the Trump administration’s offer to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, criticizing such interventions as authoritarian. Rather, Mayor Johnson attributes Chicago’s gun violence largely<\/a> to the influx of illegal firearms from so-called “red states”-specifically naming Mississippi, Indiana, and Louisiana-due to thier looser gun laws. He called on the federal government to take stronger action to stop interstate gun trafficking networks. Johnson emphasized that Chicago police have removed over 24,000 illegal guns since he took office and credited their efforts with some progress in reducing violence. However, he argued that the problem cannot be resolved until the flow of illegal guns from other states is curtailed.

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