Chicagos top cop says pro 2nd pols hurt public safety.

[powderman]

Chicago top cop says pro-Second Amendment pols hurt public safety  Published February 18, 2013
FoxNews.com     

•    Chicago Police Commissioner Garry McCarthy says lawful gun owners can be a threat to public safety. (AP)

  Facing a surging homicide rate and several headline-grabbing murders, Chicago’s top cop is taking aim at the Second Amendment, according to critics.
Appearing on a local Windy City Sunday morning talk show, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said gun owners who lobby politicians or donate money to pro-gun rights political campaigns are engaged in corruption that endangers public safety.
McCarthy, whose city – despite having some of the toughest gun laws in the nation - saw more than 500 homicides last year for the first time since 2008, also said the Second Amendment limits citizens to owning smooth-bore muskets.
Critics were quick to fire back. Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson said McCarthy missed the Founding Fathers’ point.
 
“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,” Pearson said.
McCarthy in the past has blamed “government-sponsored racism” and Sarah Palin for Chicago’s  gun violence. He has been outspoken in his opposition to handgun proliferation, telling a radio panel last month he equates fewer guns with improved public safety.
“When people say concealed carry, I say Trayvon Martin,” McCarthy said, referring
to the Florida teen who was shot and killed last February by a neighborhood watch volunteer, sparking controversy across the country. “I say Trayvon Martin because the answer to guns is not more guns, and just simply putting guns in people’s hands is going to lead to more tragedy.”
McCarthy backs banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, requiring background checks for anyone who buys a gun, mandatory reporting of the sale, transfer, loss or theft of a gun and and mandatory minimum prison sentences for people convicted of illegally possessing a gun.
 
In January, some 43 people were gunned down in Chicago, making it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade. One of the victims was Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old high school student who performed as a drum majorette at President Obama’s inauguration just days before being shot in a park.

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[m-g Willy]

He has about the same amount of knowledge when it comes to history , common sense, or guns as the typical hollywood liberal.
Stand him in front of a camera and he thinks somebody might give a s#$^ what he spews.

[blind ear]

Legal gun owners aren't the problem. All of the criminals, on his streets, that he doesn't control are the problem. He is more responsible for the lack of safety for his citizens and the crime rate than anyone else that I can think of. OF course graft and crime have never been a problem in Chicago. ear

[powderman]

also said the Second Amendment limits citizens to owning smooth-bore muskets.

 
I thought this was especially ignorant. POWDERMAN. 

[jammer308]

i didnt even need to read it. all i saw was "chicago" and knew it was going to be a bunch of garbage....

[blind ear]

i didnt even need to read it. all i saw was "chicago" and knew it was going to be a bunch of garbage....

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I didn't read it either. No point. "Chicago top cop" said it all. ear

[Ranger99]

a chicago police commissioner.


saying someone is engaging in corruption.
                










HAH-HA-HA-HAHHHAH! ! ! ! ! !

[SwampThing762]

i didnt even need to read it. all i saw was "chicago" and knew it was going to be a bunch of garbage....

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I didn't read it either. No point. "Chicagd top cop" said it all. ear

Not to mention I never saw any reports of Sarah Palin contributing to Chicago's body count statistics.   With idiots like him in charge, no wonder there are so many unsolved shootings in Chicago.

ST762

[gypsyman]

I wonder when he'll get inditated for some crime. All the other big wigs in Chicago/Ill. are in jail! Another narsistic bastard that thinks he knows better than everybody else. gypsyman

[blind ear]

The media needs to run two polls. One within Chicago and one outside of Chicago.
Chicago has a:
gun problem
thug problem
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never happen, good people in chicago aren't that stupid, are they? Oh well, I guess their elections answer that.
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[gypsyman]

The more I think about it, he's probably afraid of what the people will start doing to the police when the society breaks down, and he's worried about the coming riots. Oh well, make your own bed and lie in it. gypsyman

[blind ear]

This one dropped off the Yahoo news loop real fast. They were hammered with "it's the criminals not the guns" on the posts. May come back. ear

[jammer308]

Ha!!

[yellowtail3]

I think that this cop oughta be given lots and lots of press. Let him be the face of law enforcement & gun-grabbers.


Just another arrogant thug who knows better than the hoi polloi...

[tobster]

They like to blame Chicago's gun crime on less restrictive gun laws in surrounding areas and states. If that is the case, why isn't the gun crime high in those surrounding areas? Another excuse I heard peddled by some of Chicago's "leaders" was that when  Daley was the mayor he didn't care about gun related crime because it was mostly black on black.

[Swift One]

We get alot of chicago residents here in our Indiana prisons.  LOTS of gang related ones.  Our smaller cities here in the midwest emulate chicago based gangs in their crimnal elements.  Gary, Indy, Elkhart, Milwakee, and even Detroit, have large ranking numbers in their gangs that were originated in Chicago.  That town is a virus that spreads.  Gary, Ind is nothing more than a suburb of chicago's south side.  80/94 and 80/90 are major drug and criminal highways seeping out of chitown.