Chicago Mayor Richard Daley Threatens to Shoot Reporter at Gun Control Event

Newsbusters ^ | 5-21-10 | Lachlan Markay

[Justaham]

In a bizarre attempt to demonstrate how vital gun control is in his city, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley threatened to stick a bayonted rifle up a reporter's rear end and pull the trigger. Of course if a Republican had done the same to demonstrate the conservative position on gun control, there would be a media bonanza. Not so for the Democratic mayor.

"If I put this up your—ha!—your butt—ha ha!—you’ll find out how effective this is!" Daley told Mick Dumke of the Chicago Reader. Dumke had posed the very sensible question of how the city's draconian restrictions on gun ownership had helped, given that firearms are still widely accessible, and used in violent crimes throughout the city.

[dalebert]

lol being a democrat can’t buy you class...sure is an impoved American image.

[craig_eddy]

Makes you wonder what demented fantasy was going the mayor’s head...

[BARLF]

If Daley has body guards, I would bet they are armed. Just another fat Rosie O hypocrite.

[50cal Smokepole]

Daley is pathetic. Another statist gun-grabber. Or maybe he's going for the Salesman of the Year Award....

[oyez]

Daily seems to say, “ Only the government needs arming, the public must accept laws and face consequences.”

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

No doubt Daley’s ‘seekrit service’ are ‘packing heat’.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Screw that! Decade????? Try ‘millennium’!

[editor-surveyor]

“Makes you wonder what demented fantasy was going the mayor’s head...”

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A ‘date’ with Bawney Fwank?
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[farmguy]

If the reporter had said that to Daley, he would have been arrested for making terroristic threats.

[struggle]

I’ve got a bayoneted SKS if the good mayor would like to try it for himself.

[struggle]

No, wait, I lost that while fishing in a lake somewhere.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like a terroristic threat to me.Daley deserves to do about 10 years at Club Fed for that one.

[pnh102]

Funny, if Daley was just a normal citizen, he’d be in jail for making terroristic threats.

[bigbob]

Mayor Daley is lucky he wasn’t speaking to Barney Frank or he might have been taken up on his offer.

[The Comedian]

Anyone else notice that, as we approach galactic central alignment, it is becoming almost impossible for Democrats to maintain their homo-sapien facades?

These dorks are mentally *melting* with every passing day, and looking more and more like semi-sentient polliwogs, or poorly-implemented animatronic prototypes.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[teletech]

Ah, little Richey Daley is a chip off the old block. Da Mayor of da city of Chicago.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Makes you wonder who votes for these assclowns.

[FredZarguna]

Cook County Prison will do just fine.

[eyeamok]

If the reporter filed a formal criminal complaint it might get legs, or ANYONE could file a criminal complaint.

Making Criminal Terrorist Threats is still against the law?? Last I looked it was a FELONY, Why Hasn’t he been arrested??