ISRA to Mayor Daley: 'You're Delusional -- Please Get Help'

[GoRon]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., March 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):

Chicago Mayor Daley's latest rant against law abiding firearm owners suggests strongly that it's time to pad the walls of the 5th Floor of City Hall with rubber.

In a statement delivered yesterday, a highly agitated Daley demanded that the state's 1.5 million law-abiding firearm owners trek to Chicago to appear before him and explain why their firearms should not be banned and confiscated.

Daley's outburst comes in the wake of a pair of terrorist attacks in the city's Englewood neighborhood that left two young girls dead. Law enforcement officials believe that the Englewood attacks are an outgrowth of a drug gang turf war being raged in the troubled neighborhood.

"Like all people of good conscience, the state's hunters and sportsmen are sickened by the murders of innocent children," said ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson. "It's disturbing to think that there are people out there who will pepper a home full of children with bullets for the sake of securing a corner drug outlet. But those people are out there and, while Richie Daley and Phil Cline spent the weekend swilling green beer and bagels, a Baghdad mentality settled over Englewood. Daley is losing control of his city and all he can do is lay down a smokescreen of blame against the state's law-abiding firearm owners."

"I have a message for you Mr. Mayor," continued Pearson. "The Revolutionary War was not fought so that we could unseat King George and install King Richard. The Bill of Rights is not a stick of salami that you can slice and dice at your whim. You may have succeeded in suspending the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th Amendments in Chicago. But the people of Illinois are not going to let you extend your tyranny beyond the city limits. And no, we have no obligation to come to Chicago, kneel before your throne, and beg to freely exercise the rights that so many before us have died for."

"To be honest, Mr. Mayor, I think Chicago would be a much better place if you spent less time in front of the cameras, and more time behind your desk."

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[Edmond]

Hey, maybe that sorry SOB should trek before us 1.5 million gun owners and explain why he has so many bodyguards who are armed with the very guns he wants to ban.

He's just desperate. The sad news is that the only way for him to not be mayor is when he decides he's had enough. No one will run against him, at least not run against him and win. If it weren't for Chicago, Illinois would be a great place to live.

 

[Kodiaz]

Ok so where'e the rant?? Not that I don't believe the ISRA it's just reading liberal elitists' lunacy is always informative.

 

[fiveoboy01]

Why should the 1.5 million gun owners turn their weapons in, if they're law abiding? Daley's question makes no sense. Then again, I wouldn't expect it to.

 

[OSS]

What a loon. These morons fail to understand that you can ban guns all day long and criminals will ALWAYS until the END OF TIME be able to get their grubby little hands on guns.

 

[Old Fuff]

The difference between Dickey D's city and my neighborhood is that if his punk gang-banger's showed up and pulled such stuff they might not get to leave.

If the folks who live in Chicago are willing to be unarmed moving targets, that's their business. Along the border country things a viewed a bit differently.

 

[Soybomb]

Ok so where'e the rant?? Not that I don't believe the ISRA it's just reading liberal elitists' lunacy is always informative.

I'd like to see the actual quotation as well. If someone's words are that bad they should stand on their own.

And really did we have to use the terrorist word?

 

[Herself]

"Did we really have to use the terrorist word?"
Get used to it, kid. It's language inflation: we see it in job titles and we see it descriptions of other activities. At least in this case, the folks being shot at by criminals -- or caught in the crossfire -- were very likely indeed terrorized.

As for Mayor Daley, he still seems to be unable to grasp the difference between carpenter and hammer. Or that bad guys were terrifying, injuring and killing each other, innocents, and persons entrusted to keep the peace long before the first Chinese experimenter blew himself up. If guns are such eeeeevil instruments, Mr, Mayor, how come your bodyguards are still packin'?

Illinios should be removed from the Union. Perhaps it can become a British possession, or merge with Red China. I'm sorry for all the IL gunnies but my advice is to get out now, before they seal the borders.

Of course it's just the gosh-darn Wild West here in neighboring Indiana, where anyone who can read and write (or has a friend who can), avoid spouse-beating charges and refrain from felonious conduct can carry a gun, even scary ones with huge magazines! Ummmm well, actually, you're safer in Indianapolis than in Chicago, especially if your main worry is getting shot.

--Herself

 

[Herself]

Oh, yes, boys? This here's the Internet. There are search engines. They're free!

Google: News: Daley guns Chicago: It lists "Results 1 - 10 of about 18 for Daley guns Chicago." http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Daley guns Chicago&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wn

From http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/14834.php
"Mayor Daley stressed that even before the two young girls were shot to death, Englewood had increased police patrols."

"He also called on those opposed to a ban on assault weapons, which were used in both crimes, to come to Chicago and explain their positions."
(Really? assault weapons, were they? Selective fire? And that's not already illegal in IL?)

From http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Daley guns Chicago&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wn

"[Moses] Phillips is suspected of firing a TEC 9 machine pistol about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Police say he shot from the window of a Cadillac that drove past Siretha [White]'s home in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side."
[...]
"Vigils, news conferences and community meetings were held in rapid succession Monday as the Englewood community reacted to the second shooting death of a young girl in less than two weeks. Starkesia Reed, 14, was shot by a stray bullet fired from an AK-47 on March 3 as she stood at her living room window in the 6700 block of Honore."
[...]
"Surrounded by aldermen, community leaders and the city's top two public safety officials, [Police Supt. Phil] Cline and Fire Supt. Cortez Trotter, Mayor Daley offered condolences to the girls' families while echoing his decades-old call for Springfield to adopt stricter gun-control laws."

"'We're all shocked and horrified that anyone in our city could be killed in their own homes by random gunfire from the street,' Daley said at City Hall. 'How many more children have to die before we pass common-sense gun legislation in Springfield?'"

Help me out here, gang: is it legal, or not, to carry pistols in Chicago? In IL, is it legal, or not, to even own full-auto weapons (as the reports appear to be claiming these were, and of course that data is always accurate in news stories ) Is it legal to discharge firearms within the corporate limits of Chicago anywhere other than an approved firing range or like facility? May any gun be lawfully purchased or posessed in IL without the purchaser or owner having a FOID card? Can felons (bet you those gents had records!) lawfully own or carry guns (other than in the military) anywhere in the United States? Is it legal anywhere to shoot children going about their peacable affairs?

No, no, no, no, no!

Just what sort of "common-sense legislation" does the mayor of Chicago think will do the trick? Those fine young gentlemen were not stopped by the existing and very strict laws, regulations and city ordinances already in place; making what they did even more illegal won't slow them down a bit and it won't make it any more difficult for them to get firearms. It will make it -- it already has -- more difficult for the presumably law-abiding parents of those dead kids to have firearms, which might have empowered them to say "stay away!" to dope dealers and gang-members and make it stick.

Mayor Daley appears to want a citizenry composed of terrified victims. I do not believe the residents of Englewood want to be victims. About time they voted for a different boss.

--Herself

 

[DonP]

Not one question from the obedient sheep in the press

I'd love to have just one reporter ask him "Mayor, aren't the guns used in these tragic shootings already outlawed in the city where the shootings took place?"

"Did these criminals purchase the guns at a Federal Firearms Licensed dealer and have a valid FOID card?"

"If you succeed in making these types of guns illegal in the rest of the state how will you control these drug gangs buying them in other states?"

"Do you plan on extending your control to Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri the same way you extended Chicago to crush other communities around O'Hare to build a bigger airport?"

Of course any reporter asking such an embarassing question of the mayor on camera would be punished by being excluded from future press events or never being called on again for a question.

 

[TexasRifleman]

In a statement delivered yesterday, a highly agitated Daley demanded that the state's 1.5 million law-abiding firearm owners trek to Chicago to appear before him and explain why their firearms should not be banned and confiscated.

Be careful what you wish for Mr Mayor, keep that crap up and you might get what you asked.

Daley's outburst comes in the wake of a pair of terrorist attacks in the city's Englewood neighborhood that left two young girls dead. Law enforcement officials believe that the Englewood attacks are an outgrowth of a drug gang turf war being raged in the troubled neighborhood.

So now since his worthless police department can't do it's job, it's become "terrorism"? Wait, he'll be asking for Federal troops to combat this outbreak in the name of "Homeland Security".

How does this nutbag and his puppet Blago keep getting re-elected?

 

[tenbase]

It's Chicago. Everyone in the entire city could be dead and they'd still turn out in droves to vote for Daley.

 

[DKSuddeth]

Be careful what you wish for Mr Mayor, keep that crap up and you might get what you asked.

Thats exactly what I was thinking. Didn't the british start this way before the revolutionary war?

 

[Powderman]

I grew up in Chicago--as a matter of fact, most of my life was spent in Englewood--last address was 59th and Aberdeen. 67th and Honore was not too awfully far from where I lived.

Having a Daley as a mayor is almost an institution in the city. When I grew up, the Honorable Richard J. Daley was mayor for quite a few years. And, whenever an election came up, Daley always won re-election. A favorite saying was, "Hey! It's election time--vote early and vote often".

Remember the old voting machines? Well, the ones that always showed up in the 16th Precinct had peculiar problems. Seems that whenever an election occured--and someone was running against Mayor Daley--that nails would be driven into the election machine slots, to prevent you from voting for anyone else BUT Daley.

Then, the unthinkable occurred. Daley died in office.

Next came Jane Byrne. She lasted one term.
Next, Harold Washington, a longtime opponent of Daley, and the first Black Mayor of the City of Chicago. He died--mysteriously--after less than one year in office.
And of course, Junior Daley shows up. And gets elected. And elected, again and again. The Daley machine is alive and kicking.

It's kinda strange, how one man can have absolute power over millions of people--and not be challenged about it!

 

[DonP]

Me too

"It's kinda strange, how one man can have absolute power over millions of people--and not be challenged about it!"

I moved out of the city to Will County about 15 years ago, after 20 plus years living in the Beverly/Morgan Park area, and never regretted it.

Daley has bought off all the other voting blocs that might challenge him with plum assignments and patronage positions. The Latino and African-American blocs are already starting to vie for position when Daley steps down.

My bet is that Daley II will stay in office until he chokes on a Polish and falls over at the "Taste of Chicago". Then Luis Guiteirrez and Jesse Jackson Jr. will go at each other hammer and tong to try and control the existing power structure.

The power structure will fragment, like it did when Harold took office, only more so because there is no "designated heir apparent" to Dickie the second.

Our best hope for the future is that Chicago and Cook County politics descends into total chaos, and while they are fighting over which alderperson's brother gets the new contracts for $15 hot dogs at O'Hare, we might get the Downstate folks to stand up and pass concealed carry and get a true Republican governor that will sign it.

 

[GoRon]

He died--mysteriously--after less than one year in office.

Actually he died one year into his second term.

I grew up in Chicago--as a matter of fact, most of my life was spent in Englewood--last address was 59th and Aberdeen. 67th and Honore was not too awfully far from where I lived.

I went to Sherman school and lived on Aberdeen (other side of Garfield from you) until 1969, I think it is considered "back of the yards" where we lived.. Small world.

 

[Edmond]

I'll tell you this: you guys wouldn't want to be around there anymore. LOL.

One of our guys recently worked security in Englewood at a McDonalds. He was armed with his G19 but he only had 2 mags. I let him borrow my G30 with a couple of G21 mags. I figure that I'd rather lose a gun than lose a friend. Fortunately, he didn't have any problems.