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Handgun Giveaway Angering Chicago L.E. (followup)
Josey1
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Handgun Giveaway Angering Chicago Law Enforcement
AP
Saturday, May 25, 2002
By Jeff Goldblatt
CHICAGO - The nation's murder capital has a Second Amendment vigilante in its midst and he's got the city of Chicago up in arms over handgun control.
John Birch heads Concealed Carry, Inc., a gun rights group that is awarding one handgun per month to a resident of Chicago, a city that bans handguns.
"I would feel terrible if someone needed a gun and I didn't give him one, and they ended up dead," Birch said.
The "winner" of the handgun lottery must make a compelling case in a written essay. Awards only go to people who are at least 21-years-old, have had a background check, and have completed a firearms training course.
Birch x no relation to the namesake of the anti-Communist organization x considers his campaign a lifesaving fight against what he calls an unconstitutional law.
"This is a moral battle, and I am willing to use every tool available," he said.
City of Chicago Attorney Mara Georges said this is not the first time Birch has flouted Chicago's handgun ban and the city is considering civil and criminal action against him.
"The laws are stated very clearly and so, if he's going to violate the law, we are going to have to very, very fiercely protect our laws," Georges said.
A ban on handguns in Chicago has been in place since 1982. Last year, Chicago suffered 676 homicides, three-quarters of which were gun-related. Georges said the numbers of murders would go down if the number of people with arms decreased, a goal Birch is working against.
"I think he is encouraging violence. I think he is encouraging civil disobedience. I think he's encouraging people to break the law," she said.
But Birch says Chicagoans are dying because they are not armed, and a recent recipient of the Concealed Carry, Inc. giveaway said he's willing to risk arrest in order to be safe.
"I'm entitled to defend myself. I think this law is a life or death matter," said the man, who asked not to be identified.
Penalties for breaking Chicago's handgun ban are severe, with offenders facing up to six months in jail. But the man with the new gift from Birch said that risk is a price worth paying.
"I would rather survive and have to go up against a court case than be buried and not have any chance whatsoever
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53677,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
AP
Saturday, May 25, 2002
By Jeff Goldblatt
CHICAGO - The nation's murder capital has a Second Amendment vigilante in its midst and he's got the city of Chicago up in arms over handgun control.
John Birch heads Concealed Carry, Inc., a gun rights group that is awarding one handgun per month to a resident of Chicago, a city that bans handguns.
"I would feel terrible if someone needed a gun and I didn't give him one, and they ended up dead," Birch said.
The "winner" of the handgun lottery must make a compelling case in a written essay. Awards only go to people who are at least 21-years-old, have had a background check, and have completed a firearms training course.
Birch x no relation to the namesake of the anti-Communist organization x considers his campaign a lifesaving fight against what he calls an unconstitutional law.
"This is a moral battle, and I am willing to use every tool available," he said.
City of Chicago Attorney Mara Georges said this is not the first time Birch has flouted Chicago's handgun ban and the city is considering civil and criminal action against him.
"The laws are stated very clearly and so, if he's going to violate the law, we are going to have to very, very fiercely protect our laws," Georges said.
A ban on handguns in Chicago has been in place since 1982. Last year, Chicago suffered 676 homicides, three-quarters of which were gun-related. Georges said the numbers of murders would go down if the number of people with arms decreased, a goal Birch is working against.
"I think he is encouraging violence. I think he is encouraging civil disobedience. I think he's encouraging people to break the law," she said.
But Birch says Chicagoans are dying because they are not armed, and a recent recipient of the Concealed Carry, Inc. giveaway said he's willing to risk arrest in order to be safe.
"I'm entitled to defend myself. I think this law is a life or death matter," said the man, who asked not to be identified.
Penalties for breaking Chicago's handgun ban are severe, with offenders facing up to six months in jail. But the man with the new gift from Birch said that risk is a price worth paying.
"I would rather survive and have to go up against a court case than be buried and not have any chance whatsoever
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53677,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
I have invented a term for the behavior of Liberals, it is "Selected Blindness".They see the potential for violence of citizens owning weapons, but cannot see any benefits of saving ones own life and property from Criminals. They view enforcing strict laws against citizen ownership of a firearm but will only give a slap on the wrist to or will allow a criminal with a violent history to walk free because of His youth or color or ethnicity or some vague interpretation of Miranda/Escobedo mumbo-jumbo that does not apply.
How many times in Your life have You seen the news media report a story of personal ownership of a firearm stopping a murder or other violent crime? but every day there is a story somewhere in the U.S. about "crazed" Gun Owner/Hunter/Collector/ killing others and/or himself, but the gang member with a history of violence kills several people in a bad drug deal or a robbery and it is written as a "troubled inner city youth lashing back at a system that offers no escape from fear and violence" Who the Hell do they think is causing the fear and violence?
"Selective Blindness" no pill gonna cure this ill,