Chicago Idiocy

Well there you go, friends.  Someone actually suggested that the terrorist incident at Ft. Hood in which Maj. Hasan murdered 12 service men & women and 1 civilian - all unarmed - should actually be blamed not on extremist Islamic views, but on guns.  That's right, the 2 guns killed those people, not Maj. Hasan.  Go figure.

You may have seen this already, but I had to do some digging to find it.  What loon actually said this?  None other than Chicago Mayor Richard Daly.

If you recall, Chicago has a complete ban on all handguns, presumably in order to create a safer city.  Uh-huh.  So how's that coming?  Anyone take a stroll through Chicago's South Side lately because they feel safe?  Didn't think so.  Why?  Because regardless of the handgun ban in Chicago there are still guns on the streets.  And who has those guns?  The Baddies.  The drug dealers, pimps, robbers, and general punks who don't give a rip about the ban.  It always amazes me that the anti-gun crowd just doesn't get that point.

No, the massacre in Ft. Hood was caused, as the mounting evidence seems to show, by a radical muslim in the midst of the U.S. Army.  He was a coward who by his own admission was a muslim first and foremost.  The idea that he was about to be deployed to a country where we're at war with other radical muslims was counter to his beliefs.  As I heard Mark Davis say on his morning radio program here in Dallas a couple days ago, what if, during WWII, the U.S. took the stance that we were NOT going to go to war with Hitler because the predominant religion in both Germany and the U.S. was Christianity?  Evil would have reigned.  That would have been unacceptable.  Evil must be fought, regardless of the face it portrays or the religion it claims. 

Back to Chicago...Obvoiusly, Mayor Daley's comments about are ludicrous and would be basically unworthy of attention if it weren't for the fact that the Brady Campaign essentially agrees with Daley.  I supposed what I find even more reprehensible than Daley's comment is the fact that he was trying to politicize the Ft. Hood shootings and further push the anti-gun agenda. 

The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution is clear.  What part of 'shall not be infringed' do those jokers not get?

An Average Guy