Progressivism Kills
Daley to Ignore Supreme Court Slapdown on Chicago Gun Ban
Richard Daley, owner of Chicago and Boss of the Corrupt Democrat Machine that spawned Barack Obama, has announced he won't let an inconsequential thing like the US Constitution stop him from keeping guns away from law-abiding citizens.
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed our God-given right to keep and bear arms, but Chicago progressives are readying a series of fiery bureaucratic hoops a free man must jump through in order to defend himself and his family with a firearm. I won't stink up this blog by listing them.
Steve Chapman had this to say about progressive mistrust of personal freedoms:
Indeed. He goes on to point out that murders have soared since the gun ban's inception:
This is why liberals can never be trusted to run things. The right of a person to defend herself is a fundamental unalienable right. Daley is either drunk with power or he is crazy.
Uncle Ted on Gun Control
And now for some constitutional sanity from the Motor City Madman (who wisely abandoned Detroit for Texas)...
Richard Daley, owner of Chicago and Boss of the Corrupt Democrat Machine that spawned Barack Obama, has announced he won't let an inconsequential thing like the US Constitution stop him from keeping guns away from law-abiding citizens.
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed our God-given right to keep and bear arms, but Chicago progressives are readying a series of fiery bureaucratic hoops a free man must jump through in order to defend himself and his family with a firearm. I won't stink up this blog by listing them.
Steve Chapman had this to say about progressive mistrust of personal freedoms:
But really: Whose judgment about the value of guns to law-abiding citizens do you trust? Ordinary people defending their homes against criminals? Or a public official who is shepherded to work each day by police officers?
Indeed. He goes on to point out that murders have soared since the gun ban's inception:
The reality that goes unpublicized by the mayor is that the weekend before the Supreme Court decision, at least 26 people in Chicago were shot, three fatally. The previous weekend, the victims numbered more than 50, with at least eight dying.
Daley downplays the obvious fact that his ban hasn't spared the city from "the full scope of gun violence in America."
After all, the almost total prohibition passed back in 1982 didn't have the effects promised by supporters. It failed to eradicate handguns, of which the city has an estimated 100,000. Nor did the ban establish serenity in the streets. In the decade after it took effect, homicides soared.
This is why liberals can never be trusted to run things. The right of a person to defend herself is a fundamental unalienable right. Daley is either drunk with power or he is crazy.
Uncle Ted on Gun Control
And now for some constitutional sanity from the Motor City Madman (who wisely abandoned Detroit for Texas)...
I wish we would hear more of this anger from the republicans and stop letting the liberals have all the anger.
ReplyDeleteI agree Lisa!
ReplyDeleteWe have anger, but ours is not the unhinged, foam-at-the-mouth anger of the left. Ours is a rational anger, informed by first principles and our founding documents. Knowledge and education will kill progressivism.
Kurt - A great first post. And I love Ted. Nothing like telling it as it should be!
ReplyDeleteI too choose to believe that knowledge and reason will ultimately prevail over the emotionalism and lack of logic so prevalent in the progressive collectivist hordes.
Boy am I going to be unpopular! I say liberalism will not only never be killed, but will continue to grow. The reason is that liberalism has plain old SIN as its heart and the entire world is turning away from God, thus sin (and liberalism) will grow
ReplyDeleteGorges Smythe - If one looks at the fallacies and contradictions in modern day liberalism a rational mind will turn away from it.
ReplyDeleteI sadly must gran that Gorges is probably right. Liberalism is easy, and requires no thought.
ReplyDeleteConservatism holds open the possibility of failure and consequences. So many pick the seemingly attractive low-level muddling along, spread the misery liberalism...