Christie Hefner, with the liberal Center for American Progress, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” listeners that climate change is the cause, in part, for Chicago’s high murder rate.
“Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago],” said Ms. Hefner, former CEO of Playboy Enterprises, according to a Daily Caller report. “And this year, we are already outpacing last year’s numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody’s control and may seem, odd, but it is factually true.”
The contributing factors?
“One of them,” she said, according to The Daily Caller, “is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.”
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Cheryl Chumley is a continuous news writer for The Washington Times. Previously, she was part of the start-up team for The Washington Times’ digital aggregation product, Times247. She’s also a 2008-2009 Robert Novak journalism fellow with The Phillips Foundation. She can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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