Daley: Send gun industry lawsuit to World Court

I think Daley is getting desperate. He suspects what kind of ruling he is about to see from the SCOTUS and is flailing in the water as he sinks.

American gun manufacturers would completely ignore any kind of ruling from the so-called World Court.

All you can do is just shake your head.

Those are two different institutions; disputes between states are the purview of the International Court of Justice. Violations of international humanitarian law are the purview of the International Criminal Court.

Since "the gun industry" isn't a state, it's outside the ICJ's bailiwick. And since the United States isn't a party to the Rome Statute, the ICC has no jurisdiction over violations of international humanitarian law that take place on U.S. territory and don't involve citizens of non-signatories, which is leaving aside the fact that "the gun industry" hasn't committed any violations of international humanitarian law to begin with.

In short, Daley's shit-ignorant (big surprise), and the Sun-Times' staff are equally shit-ignorant for not being able to figure out that Daley's shit-ignorant.

I have to admit that I didn't know what the World Court was either.

"I love the 2nd Ammendment. But, I have a 1st Ammendment right not to be shot."

-- Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

... make sure that he gets some headlines that look, to the less informed, that he's "doing something" about the youth shooting up their own neighborhoods. He has no intention of actually hiring the cops it would take to have any measurable impact in Englewood, Pilsen etc.

He knows this "Going to the Hague" is a totally BS issue and he has no standing to file for any relief, financial or regulatory. Does he really think that the court will ask the UN to have a bunch of Blue helmets drive up the Connecticut valley or out to the Quad cities and shut down the handful of remaining US manufacturers? Or maybe they'll award a judgement against FAL to write him a big, fat check? Hell no.

Even allowing that it took Daley 3 tries to pass the bar, and there were questions on whether he actually took the test that last time or sent in a ringer, (so he could be made a states attorney by Daddy), he can't be that stupid ... well ... probably anyway.

He's finally worn out the patience of all the Downstate Dems that used to throw him a gun control bone every few years to shut him up as long as it didn't impact their local pheasant hunting or trap shooting and he is flailing now. He'll be re-elected by his machine no matter what he says or does and he really is a true believer in not allowing the peasants to have the ability to defend themselves. He feels you have to keep those peasants under control. His old man did it by literally putting up wire barricades between the projects and the Bridgeport neighborhood they lived in to keep "those people" in their place. That's just a little too obvious these days, so Richie's approach is to make sure every neighborhood has to depend on him and his pet police superintendent, the one that runs from the sound of gun fire.

This stunt is more aimed at making the headlines something other than; "Chicago faces major budget shortfall". "Chicago school graduation rate drops below 50%", "Police still with no contract after 3 years" etc.

This follows the efforts a couple years earlier where gun-control advocates vowed to take their "case" to the U.N. and other "international" bodies; in short, we cannot win using the sovereign democratic process in the U.S., so we'll just take it to a higher forum, whatever that is.