Remember 1982, when Willy DeVille’s twitchy paranoid masterpiece “Due To Gun Control” drew brickbats from (invariably smug left of center) “music critics” because of its “right-wing message”?

Take a listen:

“Only thieves on parole and cops out on patrol walk the street feeling safe anymore”.

Look at the news from Chicago – in this case the story about the the teeth they’ve added to their juvenile curfew.

Chicago has, of course, been racked by gang violence in recent years, “despite” the most comprehensive gun ban in the United States.

Look how it’s working:

“When it’s dark, people can hide in the shadows,” said Da’Quan, somersaulting to the ground and landing firmly on his feet. “In every little corner, there is a piece of the dark where they can hide.”

Even at 10 years old, the fourth-grader grasps the dangers facing children on Chicago’s streets. “It’s in the nighttime that violence breaks out,” said Da’Quan, with a glance toward his mother, who smiled in approval.

Nope.  No post-traumatic stress in little Da’Quan’s future or anything.

With the aim of protecting children from that violence, Chicago officials passed a tighter curfew that takes effect Sunday. Fines for parents who repeatedly ignore the law are going up to $1,500, under the new rules.

By all means: put the law-abiding under a state of siege.  That always works with violent crime…

…well, not really “siege”.  Siege is when the besieged can defend themselves.  What do you call a “siege” where you are completely at the mercy of your besiegers?

“Being held hostage?”

“Prison?”

During the 2010-11 school year, CPS reports that 256 students were shot, and 27 of them were killed.

Good thing those guns were all illegal, huh? 

Nonsense.  Chicago’s nightmare is due to gun control – and the disdain for the rights and worth of the individual that inevitably accompanies it – not in spite of it.