CARTER: Target greed — not Mississippi — for Chicago’s mounting gun tragedies

Here’s a statement that came out of Capitol Hill Wednesday that bears some scrutiny by an enterprising police reporter from the Magnolia State: Over the last 10 to 12 years, Mississippi supplied one out of 10 firearms seized in crime investigations in Chicago.

So how the heck have we missed knowing what big contributors we’ve been to the Al Capone-like shootouts that have returned to the streets of Chicago?

Somebody has got be elected scapegoat, and it looks as though Mississippi is getting the nomination.

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