He must be Versoza’s idol.
An irrational fear of guns is a sign of sexual deprivation (or something like that)
– Sigmund Freud
Mayor Daley lays out strict gun rules for Chicago
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 1, 7:32 pm ET
CHICAGO – With the city’s gun ban certain to be overturned, Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday introduced what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the United States.
The measure, which draws from ordinances around the country, would ban gun shops in Chicago and prohibit gun owners from stepping outside their homes, even onto their porches or garages, with a handgun.
Daley announced his ordinance at a park on the city’s South Side three days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live. The City Council is expected to vote on it Friday.
“As long as I’m mayor, we will never give up or give in to gun violence that continues to threaten every part of our nation, including Chicago,” said Daley, who was flanked by activists, city officials and the parents of a teenager whose son was shot and killed on a city bus while shielding a friend.
The ordinance, which Daley urged the City Council to pass, also would :
• Limit the number of handguns residents can register to one per month and prohibit residents from having more than one handgun in operating order at any given time.
• Require residents in homes with children to keep them in lock boxes or equipped with trigger locks.
• Require prospective gun owners to take a four-hour class and one-hour training at a gun range. They would have to leave the city for training because Chicago prohibits new gun ranges and limits the use of existing ranges to police officers. Those restrictions were similar to those in an ordinance passed in Washington, D.C., after the high court struck down its ban two years ago.
• Prohibit people from owning a gun if they were convicted of a violent crime, domestic violence or two or more convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Residents convicted of a gun offense would have to register with the police department.
• Calls for the police department to maintain a registry of every handgun owner in the city, with the names and addresses to be made available to police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders.
Those who already have handguns in the city — which has been illegal since the city’s ban was approved 28 years ago — would have 90 days to register those weapons, according to the proposed ordinance.
Residents convicted of violating the city’s ordinance can face a fine up to $5,000 and be locked up for as long as 90 days for a first offense and a fine of up to $10,000 and as long as six months behind bars for subsequent convictions.
“We’ve gone farther than anyone else ever has,” said Corporation Counsel Mara Georges.
Still, the mayor, whose office is trying to craft an ordinance that will withstand legal challenges, had to back off some provisions he’d hoped to include, including requiring gun owners to insure their weapons and restricting each resident to one handgun.
Georges said it would be expensive for homeowners to include guns on their homeowners’ and renters’ insurance policies, so such a requirement could be seen as being discriminatory to the city’s poorer residents. Limiting the number of handguns could be seen as discriminatory to people who owned weapons before the city’s ban went into effect in 1982 or before they moved into the city.
“We can limit the place in which those handguns can be located,” she said, before adding a not-so-veiled swipe at the court: “For instance, the Supreme court does not want them coming into the courthouse.”
Still, Daley indicated that no matter what was included in the ordinance, he expects legal challenges. “Everybody has a right to sue,” he said.
So who’s the lawbreaker now? Is it the gun owners or the Mayor himself? The U.S Supreme COurt has ruled on the issue; the Mayor should COMPLY with the court ruling. That is THE LAW. Instead, Mayor Daley chooses NOT TO COMPLY with the Supreme Court ruling thus making him a LAWBREAKER. He should be slapped with a contempt charge and sued for damages, that creep.
It’s deeply ironic how people like Mayor Daley always espouse complying with the laws – his own laws. But they do not follow other laws which they do not agree with. In fact as we see now, these anti-gun politicians are themselves the criminals. The Mayor should be criminally charged for failing to abide by the Supreme Court decision. It’s the gun owners who are simply asserting their rights under the law. Since when has a mayor of a city been allowed to defy the U.S. Supreme COurt, which is the ultimate decider or legal issues in the land? The Mayor should be slapped with an administrative charge and kicked out.
Thus, it is the politicians themselves who refuse to abide by the law, not us gun owners. So who is the criminal now; and who should go to jail?
No great loss to law-abiding gun owners……
Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley to Retire, Announces He Won’t Seek Re-election
7 Sep 2010
Mayor Richard Daley says he will not run for re-election in 2011, saying “It’s time for me, it’s time for Chicago to move on.” “The truth is I have been thinking about this for the past several months,” Daley said at a City Hall news conference that stunned the city. “In the end this is a personal decision, no more, no less.”
His wife Maggie stood by his side, smiling broadly as the mayor continued: “I have always known that people want you to work hard for them. Clearly, they won’t always agree with you. Obviously, they don’t like it when you make a mistake. But at all times, they expect you to lead, to make difficult decisions, rooted in what’s right for them. For 21 years, that’s what I’ve tried to do. But today, I am announcing that I will not seek a 7th term as mayor of the city of Chicago. Simply put, it’s time.” Daley spoke for less than five minutes and took no questions.
Daley’s decision sets off a major power scramble, following more than 20 years of stifled political ambitions in city politics. Daley was first elected mayor in 1989 after his failed bid in 1983. The mayor won re-election every four years since then, always with little to no opposition.
However, the mayor’s administration has been hit by an outbreak of summer violence, a weak economy and a high-profile failure to land the 2016 Olympics. Dissatisfaction abounds over Daley’s handling of the crime problem, his efforts to rein in government corruption and his backing of a controversial long-term parking meter system lease.