Posted by
John Caile on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:06:22 PM
Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley has outdone himself. I've commented before on his bizarre comments regarding guns and gun control:
http://havegunwillvote.blogtownhall.com/2008/07/27/is_chicagos_mayor_daley_mentally_disturbed.thtml
But for the good Mayor to assert that the reason for the Muslim terrorist attack on Ft. Hood was that "Americans love guns too much" is not merely insulting to the memory of the dead - it is bordering on insanity.
Because Mr. Daley presides over a city with among the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation (including a complete ban on handguns since the early 1980s), yet Chicago continues to be one of the most violent cities in America (under 600 murders is considered a good year). Chicago's gangs are so numerous and so violent (not to mention, well-armed) that they have been subjects of the History Channel series "Gangland." Seems they never got the "no-guns" memo from the Mayor.
Statements like those of Mayor Daley, when added to the equally inane utterances of the likes of Illinois Senator Richard Durban, give a picture of a Democratic Party that is so far out of touch with normal Americans as to be almost laughable - if their policies weren't killing people. But gun control does kill. Not the thugs and the gang-bangers - they kill each other. Gun control kills the innocent, as it did in the Ft. Hood massacre, by forcing the law-abiding to become helpless victims.
Because whether it is a single mother walking home from the bus stop in Chicago, unable to protect herself thanks to Mayor Daley's hatred of guns, or the soldiers at Ft. Hood, forced to conform to an idiotic "no-guns" policy, the end result is always the same: the innocents pay with their lives.