Posted by
"Mind and Morals" Michael Coyne on Friday, June 27, 2008 12:00:00 AM
In light of the Supreme Court
striking down Washington DC’s gun ban, all eyes are now turning to sweet home
Chicago, whose 26-year-old gun ban is sure to be challenged.
Obviously, the ban is
unconstitutional, but what about the arguments coming from the gun control Left
in favor of the ban? They usually claim that guns increase murder rates.
Needless to say that the gun ban has not helped Chicago, which has some of the
worst gun and gang activity in the country. Face it; if the bad guys (for lack
of a better term) want guns, they’ll get them. And the guns probably won’t come
from a legal shop so much as they’ll come from the trunk of some shmuck’s car.
Here’s the first failure of the gun ban.
The second failure comes from pure
logic. Most of you are familiar with the Drew Peterson case. He is a former cop
who had three wives all die under “mysterious” circumstances. Well, to be fair,
the third wife has never been found, so she’s only legally dead. Why didn’t the
gun control lobby stand on end in this case? Well, that’s because the second
wife drowned in a bathtub and the third wife was likely hacked up and thrown
into separate containers. No guns involved. If someone wants to kill someone
else, a gun is not required. In fact, the presence of guns actually would
decrease cases like these because victims would be able to defend themselves.
Another example of Second Amendment
necessity came after Hurricane Katrina. The people of New Orleans needed guns to
defend themselves, their families, and what few possessions they had left. The
streets were filled with looters, rapists, and the absolute scum of the Earth.
For every positive, there’s a negative. In this case, as much as Katrina
brought out the good in people, there were a few people in whom it brought out
the worst. This is proof that the Second Amendment is not “antiquated,” as the
Left claims. Rather, it is as relevant and necessary as it was in the late
1700s.
Now, I’ll admit that I am in favor
of psychological background checks before the issuance of a weapons permit, but
that is not an infringement on the Second Amendment. Nothing is completely
absolute, and that includes rights. Cases like the Virginia Tech massacre would
never have happened had Cho Seung-Hui been processed through a psychological
background check.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is
angry about the new ruling. And why shouldn’t he be? If the gun control ban
passes and crime rates go down, it’ll prove that his detached, failed, big
government city policies are worthless. Neither Daley nor his father has been
able to clean out crooked cops or clean up Chicago’s south side and inner city.
When citizens can legally get guns to defend their families, the people of
Chicago will see that Daley has failed them; the people will surely vote him
out of office. And it’s about time. No wonder he’s so vehemently opposed to the
Constitution.
If a government fails the people,
as has apparently happened in my hometown, the people have a right to protect
themselves as they see fit. Clearly, the City of Chicago can’t do it for us.
May this be the last time the Chicago Government fails the people this badly. We
can only pray that this leads to a massive overhaul of the over-inflated
bureaucrats that run my Windy City.