Chicago has had very strict gun laws, although SCOTUS did recently state that the Second Amendment applies to the individual states under the "Due Process" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Now comes the Governor of Illinois wanting to ban assault rifles.
Did Governor Pat Quinn think about the status of Chicago, vis-a-via other same class cities in terms of their murder rate? Note that that link is not to Fox News, but NBC. The story on the Illinois Governor's assault on assault rifles is from Fox News.
Regards — Cliff
There is no rational thought behind gun bans. It is all political hype and emotional diatribe. VT has the most liberal gun laws in the US, and also the lowest crime rate in offenses against persons. A number of cities in which gun laws have been quite literally thrown wide open have seen, consistently, a significant drop in assaults, burglaries, and other crimes.
ReplyDeleteGun bans only ban guns from law abiding citizens. Criminals don't have to comply.
Importantly, consider how far the American Revolutionary War would have gotten had guns been banned as has been the liberal mantra today. I think in most minds, it is called suppression followed by oppression.