Chicago Democrat Mayor Rahm Emanuel went back to the old tired playbook yesterday, calling for more gun control following the insane criminal violence in his city over the weekend.
In reality, what the Windy City needs is more gun owners – specifically the law-abiding folks in the city. More good guys with guns in America’s murder capital will make the more intelligent bad guys think a little longer before they go committing their violent crimes against the innocent.
The dumb or particularly brazen criminals will end up dead, which frankly, is a good place for them.
Yes, that means the violence will go up. It will be temporary, until word gets out that practicing thuggery is a high-risk profession.
Rahm’s call happened at an awards banquet in Chicago honoring Chicago police officers (and a retired one) for valor, and he said: “It is not just about how many police you have, it is about the quantity of guns that are on the street so we actually have gun laws that back up the men and women we just recognized.”
Second City Cop was particularly critical of Rahm’s call for more failed gun control, citing the theft of 111 handguns and short-barreled rifles taken in a heist of a rail car in Chicago earlier this week – something that didn’t get much of any press.
SCC also made some other relevant and notable observations:
Did Rahm regale the press with complaints about how Prickwrinkle and Dart are emptying the jail? Or how judges are giving light sentences for gun possession…boot camp in some cases? Or how so many shooters and victims seem to be out on parole or electronic monitoring when they get tangled up in gun crimes again and again and again? Or how the community seems to condone this violence by their silence and semi-organized resistance to any form of cooperation with the judicial system?
All hope is not lost.
Guns Save Life will be bringing gun rights activism to Chicagoland this Saturday.
Guns Save Life Chicago!
Saturday, May 30th
Oak Lawn VFW
Johnson – Phelps
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5220
9514 S 52nd Ave
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
Dinner and conversation begin around 4pm.
Meeting business at 5:30pm.
In short, we’re going to begin helping the gun owners north of I-80 educate their fellow Illinoisans about the proven benefits of firearm ownership.
This will include a “one gun a month” program at our meeting locations where we hold a drawing to give away a gun. Yes, we’re bringing an iron pipeline directly into Chicagoland, helping the law-abiding local residents gun up against violent criminal predators.
More good guys with guns and the empowerment gun ownership provides will never be greeted with open arms by big city liberals. It would dilute their power and authority.
People like Rahm and Preckwinkle are invested in keeping blacks and others on the Gov’t plantation.
I don’t think Chicago ever become a peaceful city. The voters there will continue to re-elect Democrats if the Democrats continue to deliver the goodies the voters have come to expect. And the Democrat base is growing because more and more of the city’s voters are becoming enslaved to governmental handouts.
Chicago is just Detroit 10-20 years ago. Some day, Chicago will be the wasteland that Detroit is now. Anyone with good sense will leave, including those who might attend a Guns Save Life Chicago event. Why waste precious GSL resources on that wasteland up north?
Chicago is like the Titanic. You can try to save it, but it’s going down. Maybe after all the thugs and gang bangers kill each other, good guys can move back in, bulldoze everything and plant some corn or revert the land to its native swamps and polliwogs.
Good guys with guns just need to avoid the place like the plague and watch the carnage on TV and hope it does not spread downstate. Nope, I am not optimistic about Chicago and have no real desire to think good thoughts about it. The good folks there need to move out and let the Democrats finish it off ASAP. And they will. If the good guys stay, the city will continue to sink, but maybe just a little slower.
I told Rahm he was off base a couple of years ago.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20131116/ISSUE07/311169996/chicagos-gun-violence-isnt-indianas-fault-rahm
Panzer asks “why waste resources?”
I’m just a reader here, but it seems that there are plenty of good people who could use help up there.
Isn’t helping educate people and helping people to become gun owners part of GSL’s mission?
We read about the mopes everyday.
You don’t hear about the good people living their lives everyday.
Painting all Chicagoans as hoodlums and criminals is no more fair to them than painting all gun owners as red-neck drunks just looking for an excuse to play dirty harry.
I presume there are many good guys in Chicago. However, rather than sit around twiddling their thumbs, they need to be making a BIG stink and racket among their fellow city dwellers and their elected officials rather than waiting around for some do-good down-staters coming up to have a rah rah session. If they don’t help themselves, they cannot be helped. Let them come to us to learn how to organize and pursue initiatives themselves. I hope the nanny mentality has not affected even the good guys in Chicago.
Panzer,
Folks from Chicago asked for us to come up there. The closest meetings that we have downstate are still more than 2 hours for most of the people up there. I represented GSL at a recent gunshow in Chicago earlier this Spring. Most of the folks were friendly, yet still walked by our booth two or three times before they stopped. Most are so used to the old laws/rules etc that they are sort of afraid to come out of the gun owners closet so to speak. At least a dozen people said they would like to start GSL chapters in their respective areas. We have folks from North/South/West suburbs ready to go. This first meeting on Saturday is to show those in the area how we run a meeting. How fun they are. The format that we use and what not. I don’t see this as wasting resources, but a chance to bring more in the GSL family.
There are many good gun people north of I-80. I know several personally. 🙂 They work hard to try and educate people that they work with or that come into contact with socially. This only goes so far. Holding GSL meetings in the northern part of the state can only help our cause. GSL can only grow and get better by adding more and more chapters. Chicago is first then who knows, maybe another state!