A few days ago…
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to rewrite Chicago’s firearm ordinance in response to a ruling by a federal judge who struck down a section of the city’s law he called vague and unconstitutional. …
Last week, U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan called that regulation “indiscriminate and arbitrary.””There is something incongruent about a nonviolent person, who is not a felon but who is convicted of a misdemeanor offense of simple possession of a firearm, being forever barred from exercising his constitutional right to defend himself in his own home in Chicago against felons or violent criminals,” Der-Yeghiayan wrote. …
Having strong gun laws is part of the city’s overall approach to stemming violent crime, Emanuel said at an unrelated news conference.”Sensible, smart, targeted gun laws keep guns out of the hands of gangbangers and drug dealers,” Emanuel said, calling such laws “key to a strategy of reducing violence.”
via chicagotribune.com.
How’s that again Rahm? You have the nation’s most restrictive gun law. It’s failing miserably by any standard. You have failed to ‘keep guns out of the hands of gangbangers and drug dealers.’ You have also failed to create any ‘strategy of reducing violence.’
Rahm: You should start by enforcing the existing state and federal laws already on the books. First show that they are somehow inadequate before creating a whole new system of bureaucracy to harass law abiding citizens.
Get a real Cook County State’s Attorney. Get a real Illinois Attorney General. If these prosecutors would charge crimes already on the books (e.g. felons with guns do federal time) you would not need any new laws to lock-up gangbangers and drug dealers.