The city of Chicago's complete ban on handgun ownership (not just public carry) by law-abiding residents remains firmly in place, at least for now, thanks to the expensive (but publicly-financed, so who cares, right?) and seemingly ultimately Quixotic legal efforts of rabidly anti-gun King Emperor Mayor-for-Life Richard Daley, who conveniently enjoys a 24-hour personal bodyguard of police officers.
His "Honor" is helped out in his struggle by the sycophantic aldermen of the city, who have hypocritically given themselves alone the ability to legally carry a handgun in public (without any of the training requirements or background checks that residents of other metropolitan areas are required to submit to before being granted carry permits, we might add).
When one additionally notes the fact that the incredibly large amount of criminals and gang thugs in the Windy City don't pay a bit of attention and laugh at the city's ban by continuing to use guns to commit crimes, one quickly realizes that the poor peasants are pretty much the only people in that city who are disarmed.
So, how's that ban been working out for them? Violent crime is down lately, right?
Er - no, not really.
Actually, the city has announced that its hospitals are about to run out of blood due to a massive wave of crime and violence, and they are begging for donors to come in and bail them out.
If that weren't enough, Chicago now has the distinction of having 5 of the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in America, according to a group who analyzed FBI data to assemble the list.
In other words, they're having a typical Chicago summer up there.
If the definition of "insanity" is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result at some point, Daley and his cronies on the City Council are complete stark raving madmen.
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Makes sense to me. Only criminals in Chicago have guns, so you've got to let politicians have 'em. :^)
The daley legacy (note deliberate use of lower-case initial letter) is that of corruption and loss of liberty. I grew up in downstate Illinois, and we HATED chicago (likewise) because they got everything and denied us most things (even though, at the time, the non-shitcago population outnumbered the shitcago population). It took a legislative vote years later to get it across to them -- they wanted an additional 1% state-wide income tax devoted to the shitcago transportation authority, with no benefit to the rest of the state. When it was not passed (partly due to the downstaters telling their legislators that if they voted for it, not only would they not be re-elected, they might not survive), the shitcagoans let loose a blast of nastiness that was beyond any previous nastiness, about how the rest of the state would not survive the downfall of shitcago. I was by then a resident of another state, but my family reported that they did just fine as shitgcago suffered.
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