‘Disarming’ The American Citizen … Yet Another Liberal ‘Success’
Shall we be ‘at the mercy’ of the politicians whose arrogance and overreaching into our rights strip us of the ability to protect ourselves and our communities? Or are we to be at the mercy of the thugs and insects of society that thumb their noses at the politicians and their laws, acquire their weapons by non-legal channels, and turn them on us. Or BOTH?
With each news story of shootings, murders, and armed robberies we are lead to believe the guns are the problems … NOT the people shooting them. And our politicians and the media yearn for a gunless society where all is well … and all is bloodless. So, we need MORE laws … Forget that the perps committing the crimes where repeat offenders in some measure or another, who slipped through the court systems because existing laws were NOT enforced to the full extent. But no … We need more laws that take the guns out of the hands of citizens … and then there will be no crime. No guns = No crime, to the overly simplistic liberal mentality.
Might be a fine idea, if we were talking about a ‘collective mind’ of a society, where some by the way are hoping to lead us if elected POTUS. However, there are those who, through free choice, either choose to own guns or not to, and to do so knowing their rights and through legal means … And then there are those who choose to own guns through non-legal means and steal the right to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ from the others … especially others without guns.
But the omnipotent politicians in this country keep steering us down a road that makes us so vulnerable as to throw us … the law abiding citizens … into a den of wolves that smell how gutted and raw we are to their will.
Politicians need to be asked, and demanded direct answers of, a very important two-fold question that has solid facts behind it:
1) Can you explain where there are the strictest gun control bans/laws in place, that those cities have the highest crime/murder rates in the nation?
2) Can you explain how cities that have CCW in place have some of the lowest crime/murder rates in the nation?
Of course it’s fair that they have guns and you don’t
John Kass - Chicago Tribune
That Washington, D.C., gun ban that the Supreme Court should toss out any day now because it is unconstitutional is often compared to the handgun ban in Chicago.
But what’s not often reported by the decidedly pro-gun-control media is that since Chicago’s anti-handgun law went into effect in 1982, only two classes of people have had ready access to firearms:
The criminals. And the politicians.
Cynics who scoff at everything decent suggest these are one and the same, but taxpayers know the difference.
Criminals are often poor people who are led away in chains and go to state prison, for decades or lifetimes, for using guns as weapons against taxpayers. Politicians wear nice suits, drive luxury cars, and when they go to prison—federal prison, and only for a few months—they go away for using government as a weapon against taxpayers.
Criminals get guns the old fashioned way, by stealing them or buying them illegally. Politicians write the anti-gun laws, and wonder of wonders, they often exempt themselves and call themselves peace officers.
In Chicago, our politicians often go around surrounded by armed bodyguards on the city payroll. Or they walk our streets strapped. Or they know a guy who knows a guy in some suburb, and they become deputized peace officers so they can carry.
Politicians are not violent by disposition. They live in some of the safest neighborhoods, with wrought iron fences, automatic garage doors, cameras on light poles and armed police bodyguards.
Meanwhile, the taxpayers, who live without bodyguards, are told that if they want to protect themselves with a handgun just like the politicians, they themselves will be criminalized.
It is all about power in the end.
The founding fathers understood this, and crafted the Constitution accordingly. They understood Chicago before it was.
My favorite example from previous columns is the case of Anthony “Spittles” Pizzirulli, a top Democratic Machine precinct captain. Spittles was a city foreman when he was discovered at one of the top hotels in Chicago, the Ritz Carlton, in a $760-per-night room, though he made $51,000 a year.
A hotel busboy noticed that Spittles had a gun. And what a gun it was. Police found it, and noticed its serial numbers had been filed off—a federal offense the last time I checked. They also found recreational drugs.
In the lockup, Spittles kept insisting—gun or no gun—that he’d walk in a few minutes. But not before he spit on a female sergeant, told her to find another female to have sex with and made rude comments to other cops who wanted to slap him.
But they couldn’t. Because just then, in walked a powerful Chicago alderman and that alderman walked him out, just as Spittles had predicted.
Ald. William Banks (36th), the younger brother of 36th Ward boss Sam “Pastries” Banks, arrived at the station and demanded to speak to the commander. They had a conversation and Banks expressed his point of view, that Spittles should walk.
Spittles walked hard. He was fired but never served prison time for his blatantly serial-number-deficient handgun.
Another guy known in the 36th Ward is Ronnie “Little Pistol” Calicchio, the deputy director of Mayor Richard Daley’s Department of Business Affairs and Licensing, in charge of liquor licenses and other stuff, like how restaurants on Rush Street use city sidewalk space.
He’s not a cop, but he feels he just needs a gun. But not a police gun. A cool secret agent gun. Just like James Bond, a Walther PPK, though he was not supposed to carry a gun, and there was question as to whether he was properly certified by a state board that allows politicians to carry.
In a meeting with me and his supposed boss—his department chief, not Ald. Banks—the boss said Little Pistol wasn’t allowed to carry his pistol on city time—ignoring the fact that he was in violation of the city gun ban.
I took Little Pistol by the hand, spun him around without warning, and lifted his jacket. There was a metal object in his pants, and he wasn’t glad to see me. I asked what it was.
“That?” Calicchio said. “What? That? Oh, that’s a clip to holster a gun. It doesn’t suggest anything, other than if I needed to carry a gun, if I needed to, that’s something I could put it in.”
Rather than fire him, Daley promoted him. When I last saw Little Pistol a few days ago, he was holding up a wall at a sidewalk cafe, the street lined with black Mercedes, and I made a pistol sign with my finger and thumb and winked. He smiled back.
That day, the gossip out of Washington was that the Supreme Court was ready to knock down the D.C. gun ban, and then the natural progression would come to Chicago.
But Spittles and Little Pistol and the political class don’t have to wait for the 2nd Amendment to apply to them in this city of reformers. That’s the Chicago Way.
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The real criminals are in the courts and the Congress. Maybe we should ban them?
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 am“However, there are those who, through free choice, either choose to own guns or not to, and to do so knowing their rights and through legal means…”
Yes but according to Liberal Distopian views it is they that have more free will than ‘us’. For instance, you can ‘choose’ to give up your inalienable right to own guns (before they are taken from you) ‘for the Common Good’ because both you and society are perfectable by the ‘intellectually elite’ and everybody knows a world without guns would be a perfect world.
What Thomas Sowell wrote is the ‘Unconstrained Vision’ of the Left in his book ‘A Conflict Of Visions’.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465081428/ref=ase_mrsnewmaspageofa/104-2326617-1358340?v=glance&s=books
So folks… you’re just gonna have to find a different way to make those bullets go really fast.
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 am“But Spittles and Little Pistol and the political class don’t have to wait for the 2nd Amendment to apply to them in this city of reformers. That’s the Chicago Way.”
Mm,…. Uh, That’s the Obama way, that’s comong if people don’t wake up.
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 am“Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!”
-Thomas Jefferson
“The only way Governments can induce citizens to surrender their rights is convincing them that by doing so, they will gain a measure of safety in exchange”
-Thomas Jefferson
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” – Thomas Jefferson
“When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.” – Thomas Jefferson
Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution”
-Abraham Lincoln
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am_______________________
Now that you’ve covered all the serious points of view…
…some times ya just gotta laugh
“Guns heal the sick”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzz7TtzqfgI&NR=1
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“American Dad - Guns kill”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X6bbXgUNOws
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am“My favorite example from previous columns is the case of Anthony “Spittles” Pizzirulli, a top Democratic Machine precinct captain.”
Michelle O’s daddy was one a them South Side Dem precint captains too.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 amGuns don’t kill people. People kill people. Guns protect people from people with smaller guns.
So true. 
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 am“…Prudence, indeed will dictate, that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abloishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security…” Paragraph two of the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776.
It is apparently the time to “Throw off such government.” Such is described by our Founding Fathers as both out “Right” and “Duty.”
“From the cold dead fingers of my hand.”
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 amDrill, I love your passion…
If a measly ten percent of Americans had your sand we could carry the day.
Paslode, your Abe Lincoln quote says it all:
“Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution”
Where are the patriots that work and live in America and enjoy the fruits of the blood of the many citizens of this nation who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our rights to bastardize the American way of life?
Why are they not speaking up and making themselves known?
Why is it so hard to get a nation of people who think the same to speak the same?
Nationalism gives many people a bad taste in their mouth. Thank Adolf for that. But there ain’t a fuckin’ thing wrong with being a nationalist.
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:44 pmMy country ’tis of thee…
Fuck the world. We are greater than the world. We are the greatest country in the history of mankind. Don’t deny American exceptualism, revel in it!
Loved the jfferson quotes. Aside from being a slave owner, he is someone I would like to have for prez. Cloning and time travel anyone?
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:50 pmYou made me smile mike3481 !!
Mac 10, paprika~~~
That’s my dream pantry!!!
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm“I carry a gun because I can’t carry a cop.” I don’t know who said it first, but I agree..
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pmHmmmm. let see?
What we need is a Second Amendment holiday!
My joke when somebody asks me what I do on fathers day (or any other chance I can get some ammo reloaded) is that I go and celebrate the Second Amendment.
It probably shouldn’t be a joke.
The Swiss still have national rifle practice with tournaments for everyone. Locally the best shots get a little recognition (and community and camaraderie on the range. ) then to the bar for lots of Beer and Bratwurst.
Yupe that’s my dream. The NRA should get behind this, so should the Appleseed guys.
Storm 0311 (who shoots High Expert still)(but not longer tolerates weapons you have to double tap your target with)
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 am