Chicago’s Delusional Mayor
By Mitch Berg
In the video I posted last week, Chicago’s buffoon-in-chief Richard Daley stood in front of a table full of confiscated firearms and picked up a rifle (ironically, an old Russian Mosin-Nagant, the rifle of Stalin’s army), and “jokingly” offered to demonstrate the value of Chicago’s draconian-yet-ineffective gun ban by shooting a round up the reporter’s “butt”.
Well, the second rule of shooting is “know your backstop…”
Apparently in Richard Daley’s special little world, every gun is used for some kind of depravity or another:
Daley went on. “This gun saved many lives—it could save your life,” he said—meaning, I think, that getting that gun off the street might have saved many lives, including mine.
And he went on some more. “We save all these guns that the police department seizes, you know how many lives we’ve saved? You don’t realize it. First of all, they’re taking these guns out of someone’s hands. They save their own life and they save someone else’s. You cannot count how many times this gun can be used. Thirty, forty times in shooting people and discharging a weapon. I think it’s very important.
In other words, “Chicago has one of the highest murder rates in the US and is being paralyzed by gang warfare; imagine how awful it’d be if the law-abiding citizen could defend him or herself!”
“Next will be hand grenades, right? We’ll say that hand grenades are OK. I mean, how far can you go in regards to mass weapons? To me, any gun taken off saves thousands of lives in America. I really believe that, I don’t care what people tell me. You have to thank the police officers for seizing all these weapons. We lead the country in seizing weapons. This is unbelievable.”
Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Daley reportedly has a vacation home in Michigan – a “shall issue” state. It’s a wonder he hasn’t been shot thirty or forty times by now.
Under a month ’til McDonald!
May 23rd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Yes. Hand grenade = Glock 9mm. Perfect example of “liberal logic”. When does he go on the Rachel Maddow show?
May 24th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Daley, AC, and the rest of Loonie Left love to say gunnies are “compensating” for something. I liked Clayton Cramer’s response to such comments, “Then what does it say about most gun owners that they want the smallest possible handgun? And what does it say about women gun owners? For that matter, what does it say about you, wanting to take away our guns?”
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:57 am
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