The Chicago police threatened to shoot their family dog unless they let the police in to search for and confiscate their firearms
by Michael D. Robbins, FraudFactor.com, June 18, 2005
A number of years ago, I was contacted by a mixed-race couple living in Chicago who were desperately seeking help, including an attorney referral, to defend against charges of violating Chicago's gun control law.
The husband was black and his wife was white. He worked the night shift as a computer operator. A street gang was harassing and threatening his wife while he was away at work. Both the black man and his white wife were ordinary nonviolent citizens with no criminal record or history.
The gang members used the Chicago police to disarm their intended victims
The gang members used the Chicago police to disarm their intended victims by falsely reporting that the man threatened them with a handgun. The gang members did not know if the man or his wife owned any firearms, but the police would find out for them and disarm their intended victims if they were armed.
The Chicago police were more interested in disarming this black working man than in protecting him and his wife from the gang members.
The police showed up at his door without a search warrant and threatened to shoot the family dog if he did not let them in to search for and confiscate all of their firearms. They did not have children and their dog was like a child to them.
To save the life of their dog, they let the Chicago police officers in to their residence. The police then said they must show them where all of their firearms are hidden, or they will shoot the family dog. They led the police to where they kept their two self-defense handguns. One belonged to him and the other to his wife.
The Chicago police charged the black man for his white wife's handgun
The police arrested the black husband, and charged him with two violations - one for possession of his own handgun and the second charge for possession of the handgun that actually belonged to his white wife. Both handguns were purchased legally outside Chicago city limits.
The wife was put in greater danger from the gang members after being disarmed by the police on behalf of the gang members, and while her husband was under arrest in police custody.
The police had no interest in the criminal activities of the gang members. They were only interested in an otherwise law-abiding black man who owned a self-defense handgun when the police would not protect his family, and who violated Chicago's dangerous gun control law which was selectively enforced against minorities by Chicago's Democrat political machine.
When I get some time, I will find my file on the plight of this couple and post an article on the subject at FraudFactor.com.
Why many politicians support gun control
On a related subject, I was told explicitly the reason why many politicians who support restrictive gun control laws do so. I was explaining to a politician in California in a face-to-face discussion that firearm laws should should target only criminals and should not target, punish, and harass law-abiding citizens. He responded, "Some people should not have guns. You cannot trust the ni--ers with guns!" I was highly offended, as were the others with me who witnessed this conversation.
Another reason that soft-on-crime Democrat politicians support gun control is they are using it to try to steal the crime issue from the Republicans, and to falsely claim to voters they being tough-on-crime.
I have more information on this here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414920/posts?page=50#50
One of the reasons there is so much violent crime in black communities, typically in cities controlled and mismanaged by Democrat political machines, is because the more restrictive gun control laws in these cities increase violent crime by shifting the balance of power to favor criminals over ordinary citizens, and by destroying the deterrent and crime control effects of armed citizens.
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