Posted on 03/03/2010 3:12:39 PM PST by lex33
During oral arguments this week, U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled their intention to overturn Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation handgun ban.
Still, Mayor Daley isn’t giving an inch. In fact, he’s ridiculing the high court for affirming the Second Amendment right to bear arms while sitting in a protective bubble.
“Why can’t I go to the Supreme Court and sit there with a gun and listen to the arguments? If a gun is so important to us on the street or someone’s home, why can’t I go to the Supreme Court and sit there with a gun? I’m not gonna shoot anyone. But, I have a right to that gun,” Daley said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Why can’t I go see my congressman who doesn’t believe in gun laws? Why can’t I carry my gun into congressmen’s offices or go to his home and knock on his door and say, ‘Don’t be worried. I have a gun. You want me to have a gun.’ Why is it they want to be protected by all the federal money ... to protect all the federal bureaucrats, but when it comes to us in the city” there’s no protection?
In a 2008 decision that Daley called “frightening,” the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Washington D.C.’s handgun ban on grounds that the Second Amendment establishes the right to own a handgun for personal self-defense.
At issue now is whether the Second Amendment applies to states as well as the federal government.
Even after overturning the D.C. ban, the Supreme Court specifically said governments can continue to ban people from carrying weapons around schools, public buildings and other situations that might endanger the public.
On Wednesday, Daley once again refused to discuss a fallback position. He was too busy arguing the merits — even in the face of almost certain defeat.
“There’s a reality, but also there should be passion and common sense. We assassinated President John F. Kennedy. We assassinated Martin Luther King. And we assassinated Robert F. Kennedy — and we’re proud of that. That’s the answer to problems with a gun. That is not,” Daley said, again ladling on the sarcasm.
“When a child gets shot or killed, that is a failure of society. Adults should stand up and say, guns don’t solve things in homes or streets. If it was, then everyone here would be carrying a gun in our own corporations.”
The D.C. Council subsequently replaced its overturned law with new regulations that require gun owners to receive five hours of safety training, register their firearms every three years and face criminal background checks every six years.
That just might be a roadmap Chicago is forced to follow.
Boy, he sure is his father’s son, isn’t he?
Democrats are so stupid. Daley especially so.
What a complete dumba$$.
I heard the quote went like this.
“Chief Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let’s see him enforce it.”
LOL: "vetted and state sanctioned"??? - "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
LOL: "vetted and state sanctioned"??? - "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Just trying to deal with today’s reality. We have a long, hard row to how before we get back to the Founder’s intent.
If gun control really worked, “gun free zones” such as schools would be bastions of safety. Instead, the opposite is true.
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Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
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If guns do not deter crime, why aren’t there any mass shootings at gun ranges or at gun shows?
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I wish every legislator who votes against guns would tell their secret service agents to disarm. Only then would we see who truly is against guns.
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One of the few statements of this life which is true 100% of the time: Slaves do not own guns; free men do.
Now I feel bad, do you think I’d make it up?
Bravo!!
This daley creep is obviously unstable. the reason he couldn’t go anywhere with a gun is because he could never qualify for a permit because of his mental instability. also, why are these moonbats always sooooo angry?
From the Heller decision: "The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."
"IN schools",... not "AROUND schools". It just wouldn't be a liberal rag without the obligatory lies about the Second Amendment.
Moonbats are consumed by hate and now they have gone too far. It is time to reassert the supremacy of the Constitution and destroy its domestic enemies. We have been too lenient on traitors. They must no longer be allowed to use the laws of the Constitution as a cover for their dastardly, traitorous deeds as this has put the nation in great peril.
(Journalist Mode) Since the ban was over turned, there HAS BEEN plenty of blood in the streets! Just a lot less of it than before.
Thanks.
We have an 18 month old Lab who was getting fat sooo we got an Australian Cattle dog. Looks like the spitting image of the one on your about page.
Pirate Lady has lost dropped from 98 to about 78 in about 6 months and is now a muscular beast.
And Chevy Nova is more fun than imaginable.
I remember daddy Daley saying that one and a whole lot other Yogi Berra type quotes.
Things still cold in S.C.?
The poor boy can’t run his police state if they give people guns.
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