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Chicago Police Chief: Second Amendment Is A Danger To Public Safety
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Chicago Police Chief: Second Amendment Is A Danger To Public Safety
By: Dana Loesch (Diary) | February 17th, 2013 at 07:21 PM | 40
Chicago’s Chief of Police, who previously blamed ”government-sponsored racism” and Sarah Palin for Chicago’s gun violence, declared that the law-ful exercise of the Second Amendment was a threat to public safety. From the Illinois State Rifle Association:
Chicago’s embattled police superintendent dug himself deeper into a pit of controversy today by claiming that lawful firearm owners are agents of political corruption. Appearing on a Chicago Sunday morning talk show, superintendent Garry McCarthy expressed his conviction that firearm owners who lobby their elected representatives or who donate money to political campaigns are engaged in corruption that endangers public safety. McCarthy went on to express his belief that judges and legislators should rely on public opinion polls when interpreting our Constitution.
After totally dismissing the citizen’s right to redress grievances, McCarthy trained his constitutional wisdom on the 2nd Amendment. Despite recent court decisions to the contrary, McCarthy opined that the 2ndAmendment limits citizens to owning smooth-bore muskets. McCarthy went on to say that he believes that the 2nd Amendment supports mandatory liability insurance for firearm owners and the mandatory application of GPS tracking devices to civilian owned firearms.
“ Garry McCarthy ’s understanding of our Constitution barely qualifies him as a meter maid, never mind the chief of the nation’s third largest police department,” commented ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson . “What on earth would possess McCarthy to assert that constitutional rights should be meted out based on public opinion polls? Let’s not forget that public opinion polls once opposed a woman’s right to vote while it would be a safe bet that, at one time, polls would have shown lynching as an acceptable form of justice. It has been said that our Constitution exists to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. McCarthy’s view of our Constitution is dangerous and unbecoming of a civil servant.”
“McCarthy needs to understand that the lawful firearm owners of this state will continue to lobby their representatives and continue to support candidates who represent their interests,” continued Pearson. “If Garry McCarthy doesn’t like that, well that’s just too bad. If McCarthy is so interested in influence peddling, he should pop into some of the gin mills ringing the Illinois Capitol and count the ruddy red noses of taxpayer-funded lobbyists for the City of Chicago.”
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Chicago Police Chief: Second Amendment Is A Danger To Public Safety
By: Dana Loesch (Diary) | February 17th, 2013 at 07:21 PM | 40
Chicago’s Chief of Police, who previously blamed ”government-sponsored racism” and Sarah Palin for Chicago’s gun violence, declared that the law-ful exercise of the Second Amendment was a threat to public safety. From the Illinois State Rifle Association:
Chicago’s embattled police superintendent dug himself deeper into a pit of controversy today by claiming that lawful firearm owners are agents of political corruption. Appearing on a Chicago Sunday morning talk show, superintendent Garry McCarthy expressed his conviction that firearm owners who lobby their elected representatives or who donate money to political campaigns are engaged in corruption that endangers public safety. McCarthy went on to express his belief that judges and legislators should rely on public opinion polls when interpreting our Constitution.
After totally dismissing the citizen’s right to redress grievances, McCarthy trained his constitutional wisdom on the 2nd Amendment. Despite recent court decisions to the contrary, McCarthy opined that the 2ndAmendment limits citizens to owning smooth-bore muskets. McCarthy went on to say that he believes that the 2nd Amendment supports mandatory liability insurance for firearm owners and the mandatory application of GPS tracking devices to civilian owned firearms.
“ Garry McCarthy ’s understanding of our Constitution barely qualifies him as a meter maid, never mind the chief of the nation’s third largest police department,” commented ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson . “What on earth would possess McCarthy to assert that constitutional rights should be meted out based on public opinion polls? Let’s not forget that public opinion polls once opposed a woman’s right to vote while it would be a safe bet that, at one time, polls would have shown lynching as an acceptable form of justice. It has been said that our Constitution exists to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. McCarthy’s view of our Constitution is dangerous and unbecoming of a civil servant.”
“McCarthy needs to understand that the lawful firearm owners of this state will continue to lobby their representatives and continue to support candidates who represent their interests,” continued Pearson. “If Garry McCarthy doesn’t like that, well that’s just too bad. If McCarthy is so interested in influence peddling, he should pop into some of the gin mills ringing the Illinois Capitol and count the ruddy red noses of taxpayer-funded lobbyists for the City of Chicago.”
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Read More: http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/02/17/chicago...
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Catch224u 2013/02/18 22:49:14
But thats Obamarama for you He don't care. Thats how he feels about it. He wasn't like this the first four years, he played a polite role. Now he wants to go out as a loser. Where ppl won't even want to remember his face. And throw away all of his portraits that they have in their houses.
Of course at the other extreme (freedom!) Dodge City at the height of the old west was a pretty safe place too, and far FAR safer than modern Chicago.
This from the same department that continually violates the right to record government officials in public by false arrest.
Where he gets his thoughts on the 2nd Amendment. I don't know. I think he needs to read it. I did. Not much there to imply anything but the right unless you read more articles, these under other amendments, then you get a better understanding to the meaning of the 2nd amendment and it's right. Again I did and don't agree, as needed protection from OUR government, nor his expanded interpretation, nether of which, I can find no support under the Constitution.
muskets???...seriously???
what happened to the liberal "living document" talking point here???
guess the second amendment...
does not live and breathe too-
typical political double standards-
i note however...
fool made a quick transition...
to the 21st century-
embracing gps technology...
without a hiccup-
Chicago body count in the last 6 months. 292 killed -- Iraq 221
Gov. George Ryan - in the big house
Gov. Rob Blajegovitch - in the big house
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. - resigned to keep from going to the big house.
The Land of Lincoln, where their governors make their license plates.
Their appointed Chief of Police are profiteers of crime and enforcers of tyranny.
Police powers must be subject to "we the people" via the ballot box, not the untouchable baronial bureaucrats.
He's just another communist looking to take away the freedom to bear arms.
Guns stay in, tyranny stays out of America.