Chicago Seeking a Solution for Gun Crime Crisis...From Twitter Users?

(TheBlaze/AP) -- The city of Chicago is asking residents with ideas on how to get illegal guns off the streets to share their thoughts - in 140 characters or fewer on Twitter.

The initiative is part of Chicago Ideas Week, an annual forum for innovators, artists, scientists and others to share ideas and inspire action.

Those who think they know how to cut off the flow of illegal guns into Chicago-- which has strict gun control laws-- are being asked to tweet suggestions with the hashtag #whatifchicago.

The best submitted ideas will be debated at an Oct. 11 panel discussion.

Based on a quick search, the response can only be described as "mixed":

Though a few did have less conventional comments, likely more along the "innovative" lines of what the city was looking for:

Chicago's social media director, Kevin Hauswirth, says the effort is a great example of "the potential power that social media offers city government."

Police say 382 people have been killed so far this year, many by guns.

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