Chicago's Latest Foray Into Unconstitutional Gun Control

The dimwits in Chicago government must love defending constitutional challenges to their gun laws:

The Chicago government is taking another shot at enforcing sweeping handgun restrictions, bringing a new law into effect Monday meant to comply with the Supreme Court's landmark ruling last month while still regulating firearms purchases.

The new ordinance was drafted in response to the Supreme Court ruling that extended gun rights across all 50 states and effectively struck down the city's decades-old handgun ban. City leaders described the ordinance as necessary to prevent gun violence from breaking out across Chicago.

It's hard to type when you're laughing so hard.  During a recent weekend 10 people were killed and 42 others were shot, all of which occurred under Chicago's current gun laws.  Do they really believe allowing law-abiding citizens to own guns for self-protection is going to make that worse?  Well, yes they do.  They are a confused bunch.

Let's go on:

Though the new law has already been challenged in two federal lawsuits, it imposes a number of tough restrictions on gun ownership.

Among them, the policy would:

-- Limit each person in each home to one "assembled and operable" firearm.

-- Restrict residents from having firearms outside their home, even on their porch or in their backyard.

-- Mandate training program attendance.

-- Prohibit the sale of firearms inside city limits.

Mayor Richard Daley called the measure a "reasonable and responsible ordinance" in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.

"When the wrong people have access to guns -- whoever they are -- whether they're gang bangers and drug dealers or abusive parents or sons or daughters, needless violence is more likely to happen, whether it's on our streets or in our homes," he said in a written statement.

The Chicago gun laws, some of the most restrictive in the country, clearly did not stop the violence. Bad people that wanted guns were still able to get them. It's the bad people with guns that are causing the problems, not the people who seek to live within the law.

Daley is one of these anti-gun nuts (except for the guns carried by his bodyguards) who believes that guns are inherently evil. The very presence of a gun means someone's gonna die.

I saw a quote by Ted Nugent that I liked:

If guns kill people then all mine must be defective.

Until Chicago learns the difference between bad people and the tools they use to commit their acts of violence, they'll never get that city under control.

And speaking of the Motor City Madman, Nugent has an op-ed on the issue of guns and freedom here.