[marktwain]

At least Edward allows comments. They are better than the column.

[KeyLargo]

A photo of President Obama with a water gun, from Vice President Joe Biden’s Twitter feed

[MasterGunner01]

So let's see if I've got this right: invalidating a bad and worthless law that disarms victims has caused a flood of bad guns to pour into the community where they are marauding the city day and night shooting people? Or, is it there are a bunch of Obama's and Holder's people killing each other over “turf” and other stupid stuff?

Which is it? Marauding guns or marauding thugs? Is there anyone in Chicago or Cook County law enforcement or government that's not on the take of some dope dealer or other street hustler or the Mafia?

[cripplecreek]

Well the police union in Detroit did complain about the rise of defensive shootings in Detroit.

[Dan Nunn]

Allowing freedom of speech causes hate speech. We must abolish the 1st amendment.

[dirtboy]

I am relating this for the benefit of Second Amendment Absolutists in places like Effingham and Sandoval, because I live in the real world of uncontrolled guns. They don’t. These rural Constitutional scholars believe in the principle that anyone should be allowed to own any gun, without any restrictions. It’s easy for them to say, because they don’t suffer the consequences of their fanatical ideology.

Where does one begin to address the concentrated idiocy in such a paragraph?

1) Effingham and Sandoval are law-abiding communities. Yours largely is not.

2) Since your community is largely not law-abiding, please tell us how gun restrictions prevent gang-bangers from getting guns - while disarming those among you who are law-abiding.

3) There is NOT being an argument made for unrestricted gun ownership - felonious gang-bangers such as the ones doing the killing in your community should NOT legally be allowed to possess weapons.

4) With that in mind, please indicate how the MacDonald ruling made it legal for any of the thugs committing the murders in your community to possess a gun.

5) Liberal attitudes such as yours are what allows the gang-banger mentality to fester in the first place, and

6) I imagine you are just as 'fanatical' in defending First Amendment rights as the gun-rights folks you decry are in defending Second Amendment rights. Left-wing tyrannical attitudes have shown themselves to be far more lethal over the last 100 years than private gun ownership - to that point, left-wing tyrants seek to control guns.

And I'm sure I could mine a few more line items out of his screed.

[SECURE AMERICA]

explains his opinion on second amendment rights.

His opinion?.
Who cares?
The Second Amendment is. It exists. It is in English. It is a fact not an opinion.

[Venturer]

The author is entitled to his opinion, but I wonder if he bothered to check on how many of those doing the shootings had a legally purchased handgun.

[41Thunder]

The Supreme Court issued its McDonald v. Chicago decision, which held that local governments do not have the right to write their own gun control laws, in 2010. The decision overturned the city’s handgun ban, and the police department began issuing permits later that year.

I see the writer of this dribble failed to mention how many of those license holders have committed unspeakable acts of mayhem upon the city streets of Chicago. His words ring hollow. Without substance to back his statements, his words are just conjecture. Maybe he fears for his life because he lives in Chicago. A good suggestion would be to just move to a quiter location.