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”.<\/p>\n
Well, the second rule of shooting is <\/em>“know your backstop…”<\/p>\n Apparently in Richard Daley’s special little world, every <\/em>gun is used for some kind of depravity or another:<\/p>\n Daley went on. \u201cThis gun saved many lives\u2014it could save your life,\u201d he said\u2014meaning, I think, that getting that gun off the street might have saved many lives, including mine.<\/p>\n And he went on some more. \u201cWe save all these guns that the police department seizes, you know how many lives we\u2019ve saved? You don\u2019t realize it. First of all, they\u2019re taking these guns out of someone\u2019s hands. They save their own life and they save someone else\u2019s. You cannot count how many times this gun can be used. Thirty, forty times in shooting people and discharging a weapon. I think it\u2019s very important.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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!”<\/p>\n \u201cNext will be hand grenades, right? We\u2019ll 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\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah.\u00a0 Yeah, it is.<\/p>\n Daley reportedly has a vacation home in Michigan – a “shall issue” state.\u00a0 It’s a wonder he hasn’t been shot thirty or forty times by now.<\/p>\n Under a month ’til McDonald<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11038,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions\/11038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}