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Western Hero ^ | 2 July 2010 | silverfiddle

[Silverfiddle]

Daley to Ignore Supreme Court Slapdown on Chicago Gun Ban  

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. 

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.

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.

As Uncle Ted says, "The 2nd Amendment is my carry permit! Period!

[CIB-173RDABN]

I vote all of the above... (drunk with power and crazy)

[ScottinVA]

While in the Air Force, I was assigned at Great Lakes at a joint command there. Though 25 north in North Chicago, the city of Chicago still breathed its foul breath down the neck of every suburb. First chance I got, I moved across the border to Kenosha, WI. While no conservative bastion, it was far better than living in the shadow of the Mayor-for-Life and his nefarious cabal.

My dream scenario would be all viable businesses leave Chicago and bleed that hellhole dry.

[Joe Brower]

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