Noticed a little article over at Pajamas Media, speaking about the Democrat Mayor’s planned response to all the recent gang shootings in Chicago. Personally, I think the Mayor is having a hysterical over-reaction to a little youthful spring “rite of passage”. After all, every spring, when the weather gets good, the young men of the inner city go through an upsurge in, er, territorial disputes, and you don’t hear Jesse Jackson, Rev Wright, or Barack Obama having this kind of a reaction, do you?
After a recent outbreak of gun-related violence, Mayor Richard Daley is now pushed into supporting a plan by new Police Superintendent Jody Weis to arm 13,000 Chicago police officers with assault rifles. Depending on how many weapons are eventually deployed, this may develop into the largest militarization of police patrol officers in United States history. If the department arms 10,000 of their officers with M4s, the police will have 9,900 more assault rifles in Chicago than the U.S. Marines presently have in Fallujah, Iraq.
And besides, “nobody needs an assault rifle”, right? Oh wait, Mayor Nagin and his boys just got a bunch, didn’t they. Alright then, they looked like they were enjoying it, so let’s not be too hard on the cops and the Mayor in Chicago, and just let them have their toys. It won’t cost much, right? $10 or $15 mil oughta cover it, don’t you think? But hey, if we don’t arm the cops, then those pesky citizens will be demanding that they be allowed to have guns again, for ’self defense’ or some such reason, and God help us then! Why, there might be shootings or something.
Perhaps instead of up-gunning the police, it is time for Chicago to admit its strict anti-gun laws have failed, and perhaps rescind mandates that only disarm Chicago’s law-abiding citizens in the face of increasing violent criminal activity. Mayor Daley is unlikely to see that logic, however. For him and those like him, guns in the hands of citizens are the problem, not the cure.
It is an irony lost on a man intent on turning his police force into a respectable third-world army, and his city into Chicagostan, Gaza on Lake Michigan.
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