If Daley really believes handguns are so bad, he should give up his armed security detail.
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The simple fact is that Democrats are frightened to death of ordinary citizens and dread the day that they might be armed. They are not at all frightened of criminals, but instead regard them as useful propaganda ploys.
I don't believe that statists in general, and gun control freaks in particular, are truly concerned about safety and the other issues they moan about.
I think, for them it's about control. They simply can't stand that others are engaging in activities and freedoms that they disapprove of.
Lefites are the new victorians, becoming furious about anything and everything they wish to condemn or control.
the man is officially stupid... doesn't he hear himself?
Keep flapping those jowls Mayor Shortshanks....
“Criminals have far more access to guns today than in the history of this country,..”
Liar. Before the 1968 gun Control Law you could go into just about any hardware store, gas station, clothing store, grocery store, lay down your money and walk away with a handgun. No feds involved, very few state laws, no paperwork. Even across state lines in most cases.
I bought my first handgun in California. Paid cash but had to wait two days to pick it up. No feds, no paperwork. In other states just walk in and lay down the money, get a firearm.
There was also much less crime in those days.
Actualy the "Wild West" where a very high proportion of the population was armed, was much more peaceable than the eastern cities, even at that time, which even then had some early forms of gun control.
What we are not hearing from Daley or any of the other anit gun libs is hammering the judges who are letting the perps out on the street with slaps on the wrists.
A simple truth
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pawnbroker-shoots-20100608,0,6719263.story
chicagotribune.com
Man shot, killed during robbery attempt, police say
Authorities say a pawnshop owner opened fire on three men who were trying to rob his store
By William Lee, Tribune reporter
9:36 PM CDT, June 8, 2010
The owner of a Northwest Side pawnshop shot and killed one of three men who tried to rob his business at gunpoint, authorities said.
The 24-year-old man who was killed had a prior robbery conviction and had been sentenced to boot camp, court records show.
The store’s owner opened fire on the three armed men during an attempted robbery shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday inside the Fullerton Pawners, 5900 W. Fullerton Ave., in the city’s Belmont Cragin community, sources said.
One robber was killed at the scene, while a second may have been wounded before he and a third man fled on foot, said Officer Darryl Baety, a police spokesman.
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