When it comes to restrictive gun laws, Chicago is a liberal utopia. Incidentally, it is also one of the most deadly and crime-ridden cities in the United States.

But Chicago law enforcement officials, realizing that curtailing 2^nd Amendment rights is not stopping deadly violence, have a new plan: They will send friendly letters to individuals deemed to have a high risk for committing, or becoming the victims of, gun crimes, asking the residents to avoid shooting one another.

Via the Chicago Sun-Times: 

Working from a list of people deemed most likely to become shooters or victims, a Chicago Police commander is expected to start knocking on their doors Friday and deliver letters warning them not to commit any violent crimes.

The “custom notifications” are a pilot program in the Austin District on the West Side. Austin District Cmdr. Barbara West plans to deliver letters to 20 people on a so-called “heat list,” officials said…

…The heat list stems from work by Andrew Papachristos, a Yale University professor who studied murders between 2005 and 2010 on the West Side. He found 70 percent of the killings were in a social network of 1,600 people out of a total population of 80,000.

The citywide social network of violence includes more than 16,000 people, police Supt. Garry McCarthy said. The department narrowed that list to more than 400 “hot people” most likely to commit shootings or become victims — or 20 people per police district.

The letters will warn those on the list that they will face the most serious charges possible if they’re arrested for a violent crime.

“The custom notifications are the next step in the evolution of putting those guys on notice that they have the highest propensity for homicide,” McCarthy said. “We’re saying, ‘We know who you are, we know what you do and your chance of dying in a homicide is much greater than John Q. Citizen.’ ”

So, wait… Criminals don’t have any qualms about breaking strict gun laws in order to carry out homicidal crimes—but they’re going to respond to sternly-worded letters from government officials?

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