Deanimator, you have a good read on it. Richie Daley and his kind are the worst of hypocrites. I shoot skeet in Morris and the old timers down there remember Richie coming down to hunt and talking about his gun collection in the 60s and 70s. He probably keeps it in his Michigan home,...remember, where his son was playing with his shotgun at a high school beer party and got arrested? Daley is also insisting on a CPD security detail for life (so he really doesn't need a gun in Chicago). I also believe Chicago is one of the only cities in the U.S. that gives a detail to the former mayor.
I love the town, but it's a shadow of what it could be. My folks split in the 60's, my mom, brother and I moved in to subsidized housing in Newtown for a few years, then Rogers Park. I was born in Marquette Park. There are so many people in Chicago that are good people, but they don't get the point of the 2A. I have good friends who complain that the NRA isn't about rifles, then stare at me as if I'm insane when I cite the real reason for handguns. A reason is self-defense against criminals. My main reason, is the retention of power by the people.
Every crappy thing that has been done to people in Germany, China, Russia, Cambodia....has been done to populations stripped of their rights by government. Basically, if you believe in human nature and agree that history is real, you're nuts to oppose private gun ownership! It kills me that people formerly subjugated (Polish, African, Jews, Chinese, Greeks, Gays, handicapped) could possibly support gun control! Jews held off the Nazis for days and weeks passing a few guns from window to window (amazing what you can do when somebody is going to kill you, your kids, and your ethnic heritage)!
The degree of trust placed in government, meaning people, meaning human nature (whoch many liberals think can be changed) is insane!
Sorry for "soapboxing," my friend. This stuff makes me hopping mad!
