“Our children deserve to be safe. They deserve to have a sense of safety when they leave out of their homes to go to the parks, to go the schools, to go anywhere. They should not fear not being able to return.”
You children deserve the truth. You lies do not serve them well.
“Assault weapons are not home entertainment. They are engineered to kill people. If our society can’t eschew this menace, then we may as well surrender to the People of the Gun.”
Assault weapon is a misnomer designed to engender fear. Further, even using the specious definition, how many of the murders in Chicago involved an “assault weapon,” Another lie.
“There are too many guns, and too many people think that is OK.”
Wrong again. There are too many criminals.
The measure will ask Cook County voters if Illinois should “require universal background checks for firearm transfers and prohibit the sale and transfer of assault weapons, assault weapon attachments and high capacity ammunition magazines?”
Will the measure also ask if anyone believes criminals will follow this new law?
Using liberal reason I have figured out how to end breaking and entering. First we outlaw lock picks, then crowbars, electric drills, battery powered drills, hand powered drills, screwdrivers, heavy duty brush guards on pickup trucks, bulldozers, backhoes, cranes, sledge hammers, mauls, and on and on and on. Anyone possessing any item that could conceivably be used to break into any kind of building will be arrested, his property seized and he will be fined and or imprisoned or executed according to the whim of the moment.
At the same time anyone caught actually breaking in and stealing will spend one night in jail and released the next day. Repeat offenders will be given a ten day sentence.