Chicago Mayor Daley’s Outrageous Anti-Gun, Anti-Freedom Comments

After the D.C. vs Heller decision was published by the U.S. Supreme Court, McDonald vs. Chicago was filed in Illinois. McDonald seeks to overturn Chicago’s laws prohibiting law-abiding citizens from owning handguns. Mayor Daley, frequently seen as a dictator rather than an elected servant, had these things to say about your Second Amendment rights:

“If they [the U.S. Supreme Court] think that’s the answer … they’re greatly mistaken. Then why don’t we do away with the court system and go back to the Old West, you have a gun and I have a gun, and we’ll settle it in the streets if that’s they’re thinking.”

“It is frightening that America loves guns, and to me, I think this decision really places those who are rich and those are in power, they’ll always feel safe. Those who do not have the power do not feel safe, and that’s what they’re saying. If you’re elected officials, you feel safe. You cannot carry a gun into a federal building. You cannot carry a gun into a federal court. So they’re setting themselves aside, and really, they’re saying to the rest of America that the answer to all the constitutional issues is that we can carry guns. And I just don’t understand how they came to this thinking.”

What is particularly sad about his comments is the fact that currently the only people with protection and legal access to firearms in Chicago are the wealthy politicians, specifically the mayor and the aldermen. D.C. vs. Heller clearly identifies the Second Amendment is an individual right that applies to all citizens, not just the wealthy politicians like him.

I think the mayor’s real concern is an armed populace has the power to resist oppression.