 It’s also home to some of the most frequent gun violence in the country.
The obvious solution is more gun laws
But officials in the Windy City are not giving up hope just yet — surely, one
more go at tougher gun laws is all the city needs to tip the scales in the other
direction and turn Chicago into a modern day Miranda, free from any and all
violent thoughts or actions.
That’s why there will be not one, but two gun control issues on voters’ ballots
in Cook County on Nov. 4. The first would impose stricter background checks for
legal gun purchases — “legal” being the key word there, as we’ll get to in a
moment — and the second would ban assault weapons.
Gov. Pat Quinn, who is also facing re-election this November, is pushing for
similar laws at the state level in Illinois, though he hasn’t had much success
getting the Legislature to embrace those ideas.
Quinn has tried to turn gun control into a campaign issue against Republican
opponent Bruce Rauner.
As the Chicago Sun-Times noted, “Recently, Quinn’s campaign released a new
online video juxtaposing TV news reports on Chicago gun violence with footage of
Rauner stating he believes gun owners should be free to use assault weapons for
“target practice … on their property as they choose fit.”
That makes complete sense, because even though I’m no expert on gun violence in
Chicago, I’m guessing legal gun owners practicing on their own property are
probably responsible for a sizable portion — maybe 85 percent, I’m sure — of the
415 murders reported last year.
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 What? You disagree?
Politicians in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois and everywhere else
can add as many layers of regulations for legal gun owners as they
can dream up, but criminals who are going to use guns to commit
crimes are probably not too concerned with staying inside the
boundary of gun control laws.
But the nannies just keep on pushing. Democrats on the Cook County
Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to put the gun control
measures on the ballot.
Luckily, this is one time where voters can have the final say over
the nannies. Polls indicate the measures are headed for defeat in
November, perhaps because voters have realized additional rules
don’t make anyone safer from those who have no regard for the rules.
For their efforts, the Cook County Board of Commissioners is this
week’s winner. The board members’ prize is a landslide defeat in
November and a plaque with that famous quote from Albert Einstein:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a
different result.”
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