DALEY'S NEW ANTI-GUN LAW JUST MORE OF THE SAME
7/18/2010
Chicago Corp. Counsel Mara Georges appeared on the "Chicago Tonight" program (WTTW, PBS Chicago), to defend Mayor Richard M. Daley's new gun control ordinance. Viewers were asked to submit their comments.
The first paragraph of Larry Nazimek's letter (complete letter below) were read on the air.
DALEY'S NEW ANTI-GUN LAW JUST MORE OF THE SAME
by
Larry E. Nazimek
Mayor Richard M. Daley's new anti-gun law is simply more of the same thing: harassment of decent citizens who want to own guns, while doing virtually nothing to stop criminals from getting them.
1. How does this prevent gang members, drug dealers, and other criminals from getting firearms?
2. Are aldermen exempt from this law as they were from the previous one?
3. A person must take at least one hour of shooting range practice, but how can he maintain proficiency at shooting ranges, if the gun can not be taken from the house? What if he wishes to engage in legitimate competitive shooting events?
4. How can a gun owner, who has complied to the letter of this law, later get members of his family trained if the gun can not be removed from the home? If the owner did not want to train an adolescent family member at this time, but wanted to wait until the child was older, it would be necessary to remove the firearm from the premises in order for the training to take place.
5. Why can't the training a veteran received in military service count toward the training requirement?
6. The $100 fee and the $15 annual fees are little more than harassment, meant to dissuade those who want to legally own firearms. They amount to the "infringement" of one's right to keep and bear arms. What part of "shall not be infringed" does Daley not understand?
7. While a burglar can get more money and things of value by robbing a wealthy home, crime statistics show that a person in a poor neighborhood stands a far greater probability of becoming a crime victim than his counterpart in a wealthy one. These fees, however, may be too much for the poor to pay, thus, essentially, prohibiting them from firearm ownership.
8. This law will result in more court challenges. If Daley wants to keep firearms out of the hands of decent law-abiding citizens, then he should work to get the 2nd Amendment repealed. There is, after all, constitutional provisions for amending the Constitution, as was the case when Prohibition was repealed.
9. When the anti-gun laws of Washington, DC were reintroduced, only some 800 complied. It is likely that Daley's new law will meet with a similar lack of compliance, because they see that it's real intent is to simply keep guns out of the hands of decent citizens.
10. Unscrupulous politicians, like Daley, and not firearms, should be banned.
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