[2nd amendment mama]

Unfreakinbelievable! If a Republican ever did this they'd be excoriated.

[2nd amendment mama]

Ping!

[rarestia]

Police officers tend to be the least trained people on the streets. Just because they carry a weapon doesn’t mean they’re proficient with it.

[chesty_puller]

I probably have more training than anyone on his force. What an idiot.

[Darksheare]

“You put more guns on the street expect more shootings,” McCarthy said, “Because we police officers will be doing that shooting! We prefer a nice clear cut situation with a dead homeowner and a fleeing badguy!!”

Fixed it.

[Puppage]

“You put more guns on the street expect more shootings,” McCarthy said. “I don’t care if they’re licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained… putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster.

Yeah?

Prove it, Assclown with something other than feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings.

[MeganC]

Reason #874,902,187 why I will never visit Chicago.

[Orangedog]

Waiting for the massive wave of “good” cops to strongly denounce this. I’m sure that roar will drown out the noise of those crickets chirping any time now....

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Logical me]

It depends who shoots first. That is the dumbness thing to announce that who draws first. Bet the citizen wins. Looks like the police state starts with Chicago. The first citizen concealed carrier gets shot the war will start. Police lose.

[Artcore]

Hmmm, and maybe fed up concealed carriers will start shooting Chicago thug cops? (And yes, I know all Chicago cops aren’t thugs)

This creep should be very careful before making threats like this. Lawlessness begets lawlessness.

[Billthedrill]

“You put more guns on the street expect more shootings,” McCarthy said.

It is disgraceful for a professional law officer to be that crashingly ignorant in his own field.

[cuban leaf]

“So I’ll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we’re going to have tragedies as a result of that. I’m telling you right up front.”

I agree with that comment.

[shove_it]

WOW. Those cops must have xray vision.

[count-your-change]

Chicago should pass an ordinance that requires all hand guns to worn visibly so the police will know who to shoot. Think of the lives saved!

[Circle_Hook]

F/_/ck you Gary McCarthy!

[justlurking]

A university police chief here in Texas made almost exactly that same claim shortly after the CHL law was passed in Texas.

I write a letter to the university president and copied the police chief's office, pointing out that Texas law expressly prohibited what he suggested, and that by making such a proclamation, they had opened themselves to a lawsuit if one of their officers ever shot someone.

Think about it: he is simply claiming that someone holding a gun will be shot. Now, anyone that is shot can ask: was I really a threat? Or did you just think you saw a gun and opened fire? If I had a gun, did I threaten you or anyone else, or did you just presume that I was doing so?

I got a half-hearted apology from the university president, but they didn't make a public retraction.

[ozzymandus]

I would think the Chicago police chief would have enough problems without threatening to shoot law-abiding gun owners on sight. How about shooting the criminals, idiot?

[SoldierDad]

So, he WANTS a lot of dead cops?

[tacticalogic]

Doesn’t this also mean that if they run across an undercover policeman with his firearm unholstered they’ll be expected to shoot them on sight without giving them an opportunity to identify themselves?

[cripplecreek]

we’re going to have tragedies as a result of that. I’m telling you right up front.

So basically he's admitting that Chicago cops are a particularly vicious and stupid breed who can't be trusted with their own weapons. After all, there doesn't appear to be an epidemic of it happening anywhere else in the country not even in Detroit which is probably the most heavily armed city in the country.

Maybe the solution is to take the guns away from Chicago cops and give them a billy club and a whistle so they won't kill innocent people.