Richard Daley, owner of Chicago and Crime Boss of the Corrupt Democrat Machine that spawned Barack Obama, has announced he won't let an inconsequential thing like the US Constitution stop him from keeping guns away from law-abiding citizens.
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed our God-given right to keep and bear arms, but Chicago progressives are readying a series of fiery bureaucratic hoops a free man must jump through in order to defend himself and his family with a firearm. I won't stink up this blog by listing them.
Steve Chapman had this to say about progressive mistrust of personal freedoms:
But really: Whose judgment about the value of guns to law-abiding citizens do you trust? Ordinary people defending their homes against criminals? Or a public official who is shepherded to work each day by police officers?Indeed. He goes on to point out that murders have soared since the gun ban's inception:
The reality that goes unpublicized by the mayor is that the weekend before the Supreme Court decision, at least 26 people in Chicago were shot, three fatally. The previous weekend, the victims numbered more than 50, with at least eight dying.This is why liberals can never be trusted to run things. The right of a person to defend herself is a fundamental unalienable right. Daley is either drunk with power or he is crazy.
Daley downplays the obvious fact that his ban hasn't spared the city from "the full scope of gun violence in America."
After all, the almost total prohibition passed back in 1982 didn't have the effects promised by supporters. It failed to eradicate handguns, of which the city has an estimated 100,000. Nor did the ban establish serenity in the streets. In the decade after it took effect, homicides soared.
Uncle Ted on Gun Control
And now for some constitutional sanity from the Motor City Madman (who wisely abandoned Detroit for Texas)...
* - Cross-Posted at Rational Nation
