Apparently the Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, thinks that the city of Chicago may need him to send in the National Guard to 'get the gun problem under control.'
Blagojevich made the statement just after signing a new law requiring tougher penalties for selling guns to minors.
The National Guard?
What on earth is going on in Chicago?
Surely Chicago's gun violence could be no worse than D.C.'s. Yet even after enacting draconian measures--which the Supreme Court recently struck down--to supposedly 'address the problem,' D.C.'s criminal element exhibited absolutely no more reluctance to use guns in crime than they did before the gun ban was enacted.
Chicago has always been a haven for crime and corruption, even within its political machine. But the National Guard?
When an arm of the U.S. Military is sent in to turn on our own civilians, those Guards immediately become jackbooted thugs whose sole purpose is to beat citizens into submission to government.
I have a better idea, Governor. Why not prosecute criminals both in and out of Chicago's government effectively and turn the average citizens loose to exercise their Constitutional right to self-defense with firearms?
Let a few dozen criminals per weekend be shot to death by armed citizens, and perhaps your crime problem in Chicago would abate.
For more information on Blagojevich's outrageous proposal, click HERE.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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3 comments:
Chicago is completely out of control right now. Gangbangers rule the city. The Cops have basically given up because they get blamed for everything. Every banger they shoot is a choirboy who didn't deserve it. The homicide stats don't tell the real story. The number of shootings everyday is astounding.
Commander Adama, in the episode "Bastille Day" of the Battlestar Galactica series:
"There's a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
The show may be fiction, but the quote has some truth to it.
Anon--and this is why I maintain that citizens should be given the greatest amount of leeway in exercising their right to self-defense with firearms...but the proposals for Chicago do the exact opposite--a prescription for failure.
Bob--good insight!
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