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Rahm Wants New Gun Laws in Wake of Newtown School Shooting
nbcchicago.com ^ | December 15, 2012 | Alexandra Clark and Emily Florez

Posted on 12/15/2012 8:48:46 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is looking for current gun laws to change.

"There is no parent and no grandparent in America that is not a resident to Sandy Hook, Conn.," Emanuel said Saturday afternoon while attending a ceremony for a new police building in District 12. "There is nobody that had their child last night, that didn't hold them a little closer, pull them in a little tighter, didn't hug them a little more.

Emanuel stressed a need for gun laws to assure an event like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School does not happen in Chicago. The mayor is just one of many politicians in Illinois pushing for gun legislation pertaining to concealed carry of weapons.

The Newtown school shootings occurred the same week the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Illinois' ban on concealed carry weapons.

Lawmakers have 180 days to come up with a law legalizing the concealed carry of weapons.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy agrees with Emanuel's sense of urgency. Chicago's top cop suggested the nation needs a better firearm tracking system.

"A national recognition that there has to be some sort of tracking, not even gun control accountability for gun owners," he said on Saturday. "It doesn't mean you can't have your gun, but there's a requirement to report the lost, theft, or transfer of a firearm."

McCarthy explained most guns in Chicago are legally purchased, but illegally transferred into the city.

Emanuel will speak out again Saturday night during a vigil honoring the victims killed in Newtown, Conn., with Father Michael Pfleger.


TOPICS: US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: democrathellhole; democrats; furahm; guncontrol; rahm; sandyhookpolitics; sandyhookshooting; secondamendment
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To: Jet Jaguar

228 as of June 15, 2012 were killed in Chicago. 456 should be the number at the end of the year.


21 posted on 12/15/2012 9:19:29 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

514 homocides so far in 2012 per this site.

http://crimeinchicago.blogspot.com/


23 posted on 12/15/2012 9:26:03 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Tailgunner Joe
I predict: the first "instant felony" law that Obama signs, where previously-legal guns, gun magazines, or ammo are now verboten will touch off the next Civil War.
24 posted on 12/15/2012 9:27:23 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ("Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov officials committing it." -- K. Hoffmann)
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To: F15Eagle; Travis McGee

>> “connection interrupted”

Great title for a book.


25 posted on 12/15/2012 9:27:54 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

This was to be expected.....but it took less the 48 hours.


26 posted on 12/15/2012 9:30:54 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul the usual suspects!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

This was to be expected.....but it took less the 48 hours.


27 posted on 12/15/2012 9:33:05 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul the usual suspects!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

It would be quicker to just report tht the Dem Party wants to end second amendment and self defense. The Brit liberals love watching criminals preying upon helpless victims. Especially the Muslims who are rapping the infidels’ children without consequence.


28 posted on 12/15/2012 9:36:26 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Someone needs to go on a show with this clown and say:

We all know your political agenda, Rahm. Aren’t you the one who said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Is this just another serious crisis for you because it’s ripping the hearts out of Americans all across this country.

Then the person on the show with Rahm needs to look him right in the eye:

My question to you Mr. Mayor is what will you do right now to keep the kids in your schools safe? Have you looked into any additional safety measures to protect them or have you just been out making the most out of this crisis?


29 posted on 12/15/2012 9:52:38 PM PST by Kenny (<p)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Aren’t guns pretty much banned in Chicago? What more does he want to do?


30 posted on 12/15/2012 9:52:52 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We are so screwed.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Right.

Look how well gun control has worked out in Mexico...

31 posted on 12/15/2012 9:53:17 PM PST by Gritty (If any of the Western world is to survive, it has to find a way to turn around, to go back-Mk Steyn)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The windy city, where the flags are half-raised every day of the year.


32 posted on 12/15/2012 9:55:09 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives. "A long train of abuses and usurpations.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe
BAN THESE DRUGS

http://www.ssristories.com/

These facts are known by the politicians.

These side effects have been acknowledged by the drug companies.

One begins to wonder if the fascists in our gov’t - who know the first step in taking over a country is the necessity of stripping citizens of their guns - didn't go to the drug companies and make a deal to develop these drugs - for this purpose. The fact that these gun-controllers, from the president on down, were loud and clear in demanding gun-control, using this tragedy for their agenda, while those little bodies were still in that school speaks volumes!

Yes, such evil exists. It operates on such high levels because decent people can't conceive of such raw evil.
We need to acknowledge it.

We need to let our politicians and media KNOW we know - and know THEY know - and demand they answer us individually.

BAN THESE DRUGS...and those that demand gun-control. They are even more dangerous.

33 posted on 12/15/2012 9:55:25 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: BIGLOOK

Yep


34 posted on 12/15/2012 9:57:13 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Lancey Howard

“It doesn’t mean you can’t have your gun, but there’s a requirement to report the lost, theft, or transfer of a firearm.”

So this miscreant kills his mother, steals her guns and her car, and drives to a school and murders more people.

Is his Mom in trouble now because she did not report the theft of her guns?


35 posted on 12/15/2012 10:31:57 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Emanuel stressed a need for gun laws to assure an event like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School does not happen in Chicago.

Exactly what gun laws would have been able to prevent this type of evil?

36 posted on 12/15/2012 10:32:09 PM PST by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Police Supt. McCarthy said “People are going to have to wake up.”

No, McCarthy, you gun grabbing puke, clueless morons like you need to shut the hell up.

Why don’t YOU show the way, McCarthy? Disarm all your officers, and carry only night sticks.

And when are you going to disarm all the gang-bangers on the South Side of Chi town?


37 posted on 12/15/2012 11:34:09 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 6, 2012.....A day that will live in infamy!)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Maybe the government could enact a War on Guns program. Model it after the very successful War on Drugs effort.....


38 posted on 12/15/2012 11:58:12 PM PST by yadent
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To: Vermont Lt

“ Aren’t guns pretty much banned in Chicago? What more does he want to do?”

In Australia you could have your gun so long as it was registered. Then they went door to door and collected them all. I’d say that’s what he wants.


39 posted on 12/16/2012 3:46:53 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Astronaut

Keep a open mind and a close eye on whats not reported about this cretan. I smell sh##


40 posted on 12/16/2012 4:07:00 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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