Posted on 07/15/2016 3:40:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
The news reports coming out of Chicago indicate that the Windy City is more of a war zone than most of the United States. There's a reason some folks like to call it Chiraq, after all. It's downright ugly.
However, that's not going to stop the editorial board of the Chicago Sun-Times from lecturing Cleveland on the dangers of gun violence as the Ohio city is about to play host to the Republican National Convention.
On the streets outside a national political convention, citizens should have the right to give thundering voice to issues they care about. But how free will any protesters feel to shout out their minds at the Republican National Convention next week if others who disagree take advantage of Ohio’s lax laws to tote powerful weapons outside the hall?
Although many protesters no doubt will show up in Cleveland, we wonder how many will quietly stay home, unnerved at the thought of marching amid so much firepower. The chilling effect is a problem cropping up even at local community meetings across the country as more state legislatures permit people to openly carry formidable firearms.
That’s one of many conflicts inherent in America’s nonsensical gun laws that will be on display in the run-up to the convention, which starts Monday.
Of course, they kvetch over things like Ohio's open carry law and try to scream hypocrisy because of a handful of rules put in place such as a pro-Trump rally banning the carry of long guns (while permitting handguns) and rules that prevent the carry of weapons inside the convention hall (a rule that may have more to do with the Secret Service than RNC organizers).
However, it all boils down to Chicago elites trying to tell someone else how to combat a problem they have been powerless to do anything about themselves.
In fact, Chicago's gun violence epidemic has even been blamed on the ACLU and Ferguson by street cops.
Regardless, Chicago doesn't have any answers to their own violence. That clearly won't stop them from pretending that any rule in place for any reason is a hypocrisy by pro-gun activists that typically finds a home in the Republican Party.
Tell you what, guys. Get your own town in order first, and then the rest of us may be willing to listen. Don't worry though, I'm not holding my breath.
Can’t lecture Chicago because they’re way past it. Hey, that wall looks nice though.
Repeating from an earlier post on the same article:
Are there firearms that are not formidable?
They can shout all they please, until they announce an intent to mayhem or murder. Then they had better watch it, because they are on the brink of being taken seriously. Don’t let what happened to Philando happen to you, dears.
.25 auto comes to mind. Something about it being just enough to piss a big man off, or something like that.
That’s funny that Chicongoans would have anything to say about any other city.
We have a betting pool based on the weekend box scores out of Chicago, killed/wounded.
Don’t be ridiculous. They are not lecturing Cleveland. What they are doing is hoping for gun violence in Cleveland. Indeed, they are doing everything they can to promote it. Suggesting it might happen. *wink* *wink*
I wouldn’t use the Sun-Times to line a bird cage.
I do like a few of the firearms on the wall though.
That’s the kind of place you walk into and ask for “ ...phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range”.
Would you volunteer to stand in front while someone shot it? My hunch is no.
You’re right. And I wouldn’t volunteer to stand behind it while someone was determined to take my life.
I can remember when EVERY Monday,k the numbers of shot/killed/wounded in Chicago was on the news.
Also when the weeks new unemployment claims came out every Thursday.
Now Under Obama, neither occurs.
eople seem to think that there are no more shootings & no new unemployment claims.
Wouldn’t it depend on how many are lodged in his body?
An armed society is a polite society.
The chilling effect is a problem cropping up even at local community meetings across the country as more state legislatures permit people to openly carry formidable firearms.
Yet another good reason for unlicensed open/concealed *constitutional carry*. We've been pro-choice in Wyoming for 5 years now, with no so sign of Chicago-style crime or murder statistics yet. Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
You can still get it from Second City Cop Blog Spot. From this past weekend:
...the end of another violent weekend in Chicago that saw seven people killed and at least 52 wounded.
The toll brings the number of people shot in Chicago this year to nearly 2,200. At least 329 of them have been killed, about 100 more than this time last year.
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