Of course it's fair that they have guns and you don't
John Kass
June 19, 2008
That Washington, D.C., gun ban that the Supreme Court should toss out any day now because it is unconstitutional is often compared to the handgun ban in Chicago.
But what's not often reported by the decidedly pro-gun-control media is that since Chicago's anti-handgun law went into effect in 1982, only two classes of people have had ready access to firearms:
The criminals. And the politicians.
Cynics who scoff at everything decent suggest these are one and the same, but taxpayers know the difference.
I guess I'm cynical, or at least in a cynical mood. I can't see the difference, in principle. Daly and his ilk are more successful in their chosen profession, but is it really a different profession than the common criminal's? Petty criminals stealthily defy drug laws, for instance; serious criminals boldly and publicly defy the supreme law of the land.
In Chicago, our politicians often go around surrounded by armed bodyguards on the city payroll. Or they walk our streets strapped. Or they know a guy who knows a guy in some suburb, and they become deputized peace officers so they can carry.
Politicians are not violent by disposition. They live in some of the safest neighborhoods, with wrought iron fences, automatic garage doors, cameras on light poles and armed police bodyguards.
Meanwhile, the taxpayers, who live without bodyguards, are told that if they want to protect themselves with a handgun just like the politicians, they themselves will be criminalized.
It is all about power in the end.
Superb analysis. The criminal who defies the most fundamental law without stealth or violence is like the general who defeats the enemy without combat or expense--a master of his art. Being called "your honor" is just icing on the cake.
If you are rich enough, powerful enough, talented enough, or connected enough you get to live by different rules. It is, as John Kass puts it, all about power; equal protection of the laws is a sick joke in anti-American enclaves.
Source:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-19-jun19,0,4716398.column
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