CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF BLAMES GUNS, NOT THUGS

“Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence”

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, reacting angrily to the Thursday night shootings in a Chicago park where 13 people were wounded, told a press conference, ““Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence....A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable.” He also said, "Military-type weapons like the one we believe to have been used in this shooting belong on battlefields, not on the street or on the corner or in the park in the Back of the Yards [neighborhood]."

In addition to the 13 people shot in the park, 10 other people were shot Thursday night in Chicago, three of them shot dead. That’s 23 people shot in one night.

To the gun control crowd, it’s always the guns, never the thugs running around shooting up neighborhoods or the kooks killing kids at schools, that are responsible for the violence. Chicago, along with Washington, D.C. and New York City, has the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. But that’s not good enough for McCarthy. He and his ilk want even stricter gun controls, and they want them applied nationwide.

EDITOR’S NOTE: On PACOVILLA, F. Moreno said:

As a Law Enforcement Officer, combat veteran, and father of three sons, I concur with the sentiments of Mr. McCarthy. Why anyone would argue the right or need of any individual to own or possess such a high caliber weapon is beyond me. These weapons present an extreme danger to me and my brothers on the streets, and I support any and all efforts to remove them from our society. Want to play with these weapons at the range? Fine, let authorized ranges keep these types of weapons on site and rent them out . Or do you want them in case you need to form a militia against the US Government? Right…good luck with that. We all just need to drop the political posturing and use some common sence on this issue.

My response: Officer Moreno, with all the media hype and the howling about AR-15s by gun control groups and left-wing politicians togehter with their lackey police administrators, I can understand your fear of these weapons. But your fears are way overblown. Of all the brave and heroic cops that have been killed in the line of duty over the past 20 years, hardly any of them have been shot to death with an AR-15, AK-47 or other military-style rifle. Almost all the shooting deaths occurred from the use of handguns.