Tuesday, June 29, 2010

When Seconds Count, Police Are Just Minutes Away



Calling 911 is what you do after you shoot the guy that is trying to murder your family.

By de Andréa
June 29, 2010

Headlines read: Supreme Court Strikes Down Chicago Gun Ban

Chicago Gun Ban Case to Determine Gun Rights For All States.

One might be inclined to believe that this is a good thing. ‘Don’t you believe it’…
Take a long look at the 30 year old gun ban in Washington DC after the Supreme Court ruled that an individual has a right to keep and bear arms as the Second Amendment clearly states. The only improvement was that one can now assemble the individual parts of a gun to legally make it a gun again.

Death Toll Mounts in Chicago

As in the case of the Washington DC gun ban, Chicago was fast becoming a runner up in the murder capital of the country award. Fifty-two people shot, eight of them fatally in a single Chicago weekend, yet Mayor Richard Daley appeared poised to go down screaming in his opposition to the Second Amendment Foundation's lawsuit to overturn his city's handgun ban.

Since the gun ban, Chicago has become a slaughterhouse where defenseless victims are terrorized by armed thugs who have taken full advantage of an unarmed populace. Daley and his predecessors who perpetuated this ban are wading knee-deep in the blood of hundreds of crime victims who should have had the means to defend themselves.

The problem with the U.S. Supreme Court is what it has always been, and that is that it fails at every juncture to strengthen, support, and uphold the original intent of Constitutional law. In other words, at the very least it compromises the basic fundamental foundation and philosophy of Constitutional law. In the DC case the Court ruled that the Second Amendment is an individual right as opposed to the more popular perspective of a collective right. That’s a good thing! But even thought it is constitutional illegal, the Court ruled that governments have a right to reasonable restrictions on the right, leaving the door wide open to total infringement. The right just officially became a restricted privilege; the infringement clause has been rendered void.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago's handgun ban. Now the city will likely do what Washington, D.C., did when its own ban was overturned just two years ago, which was to put in place all sorts of restrictions to make it tougher to buy guns and imposable to use them in self-defense as well as easier for police to know who has them for future confiscation.

With the law now more defined and the fence line clearly visible, prospective gun owners in D.C. now are required to take expensive training courses that include spending one hour on a DC firing range (there isn't one in D.C. they are still outlawed.) and several hours in a classroom learning about so called gun safety. They also must pass a 20 question test based on D.C.'s highly restrictive firearm laws. They must be fingerprinted, pay huge fees, and jump through many other hurdles. Moreover, while their guns can now be assembled into an actual gun they must be kept them in the house unloaded and locked up.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he's encouraged by what he has seen in D.C. and vows to restrict Chicago’s guns them right out of existence.

Year after year the statistics have piled up in Chicago yet Mayor Daley has stubbornly defended the city's ban. While he has luxuriated at his vacation mansion with the safety of armed bodyguards, the bodies of Chicago crime victims have stacked up like cordwood in the streets.

Monday the Supreme Court supposedly put an end to this insanity, and gave the citizens of Chicago back their right to legally own a gun. Daley thinks his constituents should be content to call 911 and wait for help to arrive while they're being shot, stabbed, raped, robbed, or beaten. Those crimes happen fast, and when seconds count, Chicago police are minutes away.
Read a report about the Supreme Court decision: http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=265

Like in D.C., Chicago residents have endured the terror of public disarmament for almost three decades, and all they have to show for it is a body count. Mayor Daley should not only be ashamed but should be brought up on charges of constitutional rights violations and conspiracy to citizen endangerment or better yet, mass murder.

It is misleading to consider the over all crime rates in America, as being among the highest in the world without recognizing that among other factors the U.S. is a free country. In other words Americans are free to commit crime if they so desire. They may not get caught and if they do they may not have to pay the price. While in many other countries with a lower crime rate, if the police even suspect that you may have committed a crime you could be shot on sight without so much as an investigation or a trial. Would you rather live under tyranny and the threat of death because you accidentally road over a policeman’s foot?

That being said; in spite of (or because of) the increase of firearms in the hands of Americans, the overall violent crime rate per-capita in the U.S. for the past three decades has been going down…Except in Chicago and Washington DC… They called 911

Anyone with half a brain can connect those dots…de Andréa

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