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Shooting death toll rises-time for U.S. to pull out of Chicago?
September 19, 2008 | Tagged Chicago, Gun Law Failures, Obama | Leave a Comment
CBS 2 reports that 125 people were shot and killed this summer in Chicago. The story further states that the number almost equals the number of troops lost in Iraq over the same period.
What are we to make of this carnage in a city with a handgun ban and some of the most onerous anti-self-defense laws in the country? First of all, Democrat gun control laws obviously aren’t working. This is not surprising, considering the lack of evidence that gun control laws work at all. (See previous posts under the category “Gun Law Failures.”)
I suppose the “good news,” if there is good news in this story, is that 90% of the shooters and 80% of their victims appear to be gang members. It seems the gangsters are keeping most of the violence within the (crime) family.
With regard to domestic/foreign policy: will Barack Obama now say that the U.S. should pull out of Chicago, since the city appears to be a more dangerous place for Americans than an actual war zone? (Chicago, you know, is much smaller than Iraq, so the relative danger factor would seem to be greater in Chi Town.) I believe Obama thinks that Illinois is one of our 57 states, so I’m pretty sure he would treat this as a domestic issue.
Oh! Right! I doubt we will hear a pronouncement favoring withdrawal, because Obama is a product of the Chicago Political Machine. He supports that city’s ineffective gun laws and other draconian gun control measures.
Vote Republican, or lose your legal right to own a gun. Actually, as long as Heller stands under an Obama Administration, you might be able to own a firearm, other than a semi-automatic; but you probably won’t be able to lawfully assemble the weapon or use it for anything other than a doorstop. If Obama appoints liberal judges to the Supreme Court, they may overturn Heller. It would only take one new liberal justice’s vote for the Court to rule that you do not have a fundamental, natural right to self-defense against crime and tyranny. You do the math.
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