Posted on 05/30/2011 7:11:11 AM PDT by marktwain
"Quit your anti-gun tantrum, Chicago," a May 27 Chicago Sun-Times editorial headline by Second Amendment Foundation Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb and Gun Week Senior Editor Dave Workman commands.
"The Second Amendment Foundation recently filed two important suits that...challenge government hostility toward two U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment." they write, citing their "case...against the State of Illinois, which sidestepped an opportunity to adopt legislation that would allow Prairie State citizens to legally carry loaded handguns for their personal protection."
"The Foundation is challenging the City of Chicago’s ridiculously cumbersome handgun permit ordinance, which was written in an effort to allow the Windy City to thumb its nose at the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago," Gottlieb and Workman explain.
"Governments, whether federal, state or local, simply cannot evade their responsibilities to obey the Constitution and adhere to Supreme Court rulings," they argue. "That may be 'the Chicago Way,' but it’s not the American Way."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Those of us fighting for firearm rights know that this issue is a great example of how liberals refuse to empower the individual, refuse to trust the individual and refuse to protect the individual.
Government rights always come first for liberals.
Personal rights always come second.
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