Chicago not only has one of the strictist gun control laws in the country, it’s Mayor is talking all out war (in light of the Supreme Courts Heller decision) to make sure that they law is not repealed. Yet it seems that in Mayor Daley’s Chicago, gun control adnerence is only for the proletariat and not for the ruling classes.<\/p>\n
Amazingly enough, he was not the first local public official to take the view that firearms restrictions are something for other, ordinary people to observe. Chicago politicians are zealously committed to gun control in law, but fairly relaxed about it in practice.<\/p>\n
In 1994, state Sen. Rickey Hendon, D-Chicago, had an unregistered handgun stolen from his home in a burglary, and he didn’t feign contrition about his disregard of the ordinance.<\/p>\n
“I have a right to protect myself,” he declared, noting that he had been burglarized before — and forgetting that the state legislature of which he is a member allows Illinois cities to deprive their citizens of that right. Asked if he would replace the lost piece, Hendon said, “No comment.” The police were kind enough not to charge him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Nice of those Chicago cops.\u00a0 D’ya suppose a regular citizen would get the same forebearance?<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, another Chicagoan, has endorsed a nationwide ban on handguns and, in 1993, organized Chicago’s first Gun Turn-in Day. But the following year, while running unsuccessfully for governor, he admitted he owned a handgun — “for protection,” he explained — and hadn’t seen fit to turn it in along with those other firearms. Lesser mortals apparently can protect themselves with forks and spoons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And it’s here LL is wrong.\u00a0 As we’ve seen in the UK, defending oneself with kitchen utensils, or even your fists and fingernails, can be banned as easily as guns can.<\/p>\n
But how is this – words fail – hypocrisy <\/em>possible?<\/p>\nIn the early nineties, at the near-nadir of Second Amendment human rights, Dianne Feinstein – today a Senator, back then the mayor of San Francisco – famously obtained a handgun.\u00a0 And then tried to revoke all civilian carry permits in the city – but only after having herself issued a police <\/em>carry permit.\u00a0 It didn’t end well for Feinstein – indeed, her hypocrisy was a huge moral lift to the Second Amendment human rights movement fifteen years ago.<\/p>\nBut San Francisco is a piker a pouring on perks for pols (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n
But wait, you say, State law classifies aldermen as designated “peace” officers and as such share the same rights and responsibilities as Chicago police officers<\/strong>. That also assumes that these aldermen are “law-abiding” as police officers are supposed to be and yet….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n…and yet Chicago alderman, who actively repress the civil rights of law-abiding Chicagoans as they preside over an epic meltdown of law-and-order in the streets, give themselves the right to carry a firearm for self-defense.<\/p>\n
Because peasants need lords, dammit.<\/p>\n
C’mon, February!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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