Chicago Gun Control Targets Restaurants
Posted on 09/14/2013 4:17:31 AM PDT by LD Jackson
The Chicago City Council has decided to strengthen their gun control laws by targeting and financially damaging local businesses that don't ban guns. The Chicago Tribune has the story.
The council adopted a plan to revoke liquor licenses from restaurants that do not ban firearms.
It's the City Council's latest attempt to toughen Chicago's gun laws despite a federally mandated state law passed by the General Assembly allowing concealed handguns to be carried.
Gun rights advocates have promised a lawsuit. Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, said the law firm Jenner & Block has pledged to defend the city in court for free if such a suit is filed.
After the vote, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told reporters that outlawing guns from businesses that serve alcohol is common sense. Society and the nation say "you're not supposed to drink and drive. You're clearly not supposed to drink and shoot," he said.
This is what they do in Chicago instead of doing something about the murder rate. So far this year, Chicago had about 27 percent more murders than New York City, which has three times the population. And Chicago had about 49 percent more murders than Los Angeles, which has 40 percent more people, according to statistics from the three police departments. Clearly, gun control doesn't work. And what do liberals do when their plans fail? They double down push their gun control laws even harder. Does the Chicago City Council think the murder problem is caused by restaurants allowing legally carried concealed weapons? They must because if not, that means they are needlessly targeting Chicago businesses and attempting to do them financial harm as retaliation for allowing customers to claim the Constitutional right to bear arms. Not really all that surprising for Chicago. When corrupt politicians have ruled for decades it's no surprise that their laws target law-abiding business people and do absolutely nothing about the murderous thugs that infest their city. I wonder if the Godfather Rahm Emanuel would like to take a walk on the south side of Chicago after dark, without his bodyguards. Probably not.
TOPICS: PoliticsKEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; chicago
Insanity, we have no guns here so come right in and hold us up
More guns less crime.
It has always been about people control.
Not really all that surprising for Chicago. When corrupt politicians have ruled for decades it's no surprise that their laws target law-abiding business people and do absolutely nothing about the murderous thugs that infest their city.
The so-called "youth gangs" are actually Chicago's narcotics distribution system. Millions of dollars flow from the streets to lord high politicians' pockets. Nobody in Chicago is going to do anything about violent crime.
Gun Free Zone = Crime Scene.
If the proper bans had been in place, THIS
would never have happened.
Fortuynately, the cops were on the ball and caught up with a bunch of suspects
Despite clear evidence that freedom and personal responsibility is the solution, control-oriented liberals (er, "progressives") seek to retain and expand control.
It turns out that holders of concealed carry permits are a "demographic" that has one of the lowest rates of crime of any other demographic group, maybe even including law enforcement officers.
Consider the following:
>> Between, October 1, 1987, and November 30, 2008, Florida issued permits to 1,439,446 people, many of whom have had their permits renewed multiple times. Only 166 had their permits revoked for any type of firearms related violation – about 0.01 percent. I was just looking up the new numbers. Updating those numbers to January 31, 2010, Florida has now issued permits to 1,704,624 people. The number who have had their permits revoked has risen to just 167. In 14 months, just one person with a Florida permit has lost his permit for a fire arms related violation. There are currently 692,621 valid permits. That is a revocation rate of 0.00014 percent. <<
from:http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2010/02/rate-that-concealed-carry-permit.html
I am glad that Illinois has concealed carry now, but we all should be honest.
Concealed carry is not going to stop the violence in Chicago. It is being carried out by a culture of those with poor impulse control and assassination protocols, the very anti-thesis of those who should be armed.
Concealed carry is great for those who might be victims of random violence, but those who are targeted and stuck in the never ending cycle of violence perpetuated by one culture in particular, it means nothing.
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