Chicago Gun Nuts
Is there anyone even remotely associated with the Obama Administration who hasn’t gone off the deep end of true public embarrassment? It’s like some kind of twisted game of six degrees of separation. In this case, it comes via former Obama chief of staff and recently made Chicago mob boss mayor Rham Emanuel.
One of his first acts was to appoint a new police superintendent, Garry McCarthy, who promptly let loose a truly bizarre rant that managed to simultaneously peg Second Amendment advocates as racists and blame Alaska’s ex-governor, Sarah Palin, for inner-city gun violence. This from Chicago’s WLS-890AM:
Chicago’s new top cop says the accessibility to firearms in America is an extension “of government-sponsored racism” that goes back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow.
Speaking to parishoners at St. Sabina Church earlier this month, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy took to the microphone after Father Michael Pfleger spoke about gun control.
McCarthy said the topic of race is a sensitive issue “because everybody’s afraid of race” but that he wasn’t afraid to broach the subject.
“So here’s what I want to tell you. See, let’s see if we can make a connection here. Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did they all have in common? Anybody getting’ scared? Government sponsored racism.”
“Now I want you to connect one more dot on that chain of the African American history in this country, and tell me if I’m crazy. Federal gun laws that facilitate the flow of illegal firearms, into our urban centers across this country, that are killing our black and brown children,” he said.
“The NRA does not like me, and I’m okay with that. We’ve got to get the gun debate back to center, and it’s got to come with the recognition of who’s paying the price for the gun manufacturers being rich and living in gated communities,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy illustrated his point by recalling a crime scene investigation while he was a police official in Newark, New Jersey where five children were shot, two of whom were killed. McCarthy said when he got home, he turned on his television to unwind and found an episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” showing.
“She was caribou hunting and talking about the right to bear arms. Why wasn’t she at the crime scene with me?”
Hmmmm, maybe, and this is just a wild guess, but maybe it was because she didn’t have anything to do with the crime or its subsequent investigation.
And speaking of urban, inner-city crime, Police Superintendent McCarthy might want to check his facts before spouting off about how the right to bear arms to protect yourself and family is tantamount to “government-sponsored racism.”
Specifically, he should reference the Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, where Otis McDonald, a 76-year-old African-American Army veteran, took to the courts as one of the plaintiffs to challenge Chicago’s ban on the sale and possession of handguns.
The reason? McDonald didn’t feel safe in his own urban Chicago neighborhood, without a handgun to protect himself and family from the thugs and criminals roaming the streets.
Note to McCarthy, who obviously missed the memo the first time around: disarming victims and law-abiding citizens doesn’t prevent crime. Neither does trying to blame Sarah Palin.
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