Greater Chicago, Downstate Illinois, Sacrificing Themselves For Questionable Causes

Updated: Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008, 2:22 pm -- I don't know whether the proposed ordinance ever passed, but less than five months ago village officials in Tinley Park, Ill., site of yesterday's mall shooting, were proposing Chicago-style gun control to ban nearly every kind of privately owned firearm from the village. Not that criminals would care, but this will effectively prevent Tinley Park residents from using firearms to protect their lives. The measure was linked to Chicago Mayor Daley's proposal to establish a 100-mile gun free zone around his city.

Meanwhile, the writers over at NortheastShooters.com have a statement and a question:
1) "If only we could pass some common-sense legislation outlawing cold-blooded murder;" and 2) "Ted Kennedy supports laws that make women in shopping malls defenseless victims of homicidal manaics . . . Do you think N.O.W. will issue a press release condemning that "betrayal of women" they way they did over Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama?"

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Updated: Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, 11:17 pm -- Media reports state the Lane Bryant store had no security cameras anywhere inside the facility. Unconfirmed at this time. If true, however, clearly Lane Bryant was negligent in not being able to guarantee its shoppers' safety.

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Updated: Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, 8:24 pm -- Just yesterday, attorney Teri O'Brien wrote a column for the Chicago Daily Observer that accuses Cook County, Ill. democrats of denying women one very important thing -- choice.

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The nation watches tonight to learn the details of the horrible shooting that occurred today in a suburban Chicago strip mall. I can only imagine how some of the gun controllers there -- Chicago Mayor Daley as Numero Uno -- will be rubbing their hands together with delight in confidence that their latest registration schemes will be rubber stamped by Cook County officials.

It is terribly sad, and unnerving, that Cook County and greater Chicagoland residents must continue to be forced to sacrifice their rights on the alter of gun control. No Speed Bumps wrote an essay in 2005 about a nighttime visit to a downtown Chicago blues club. He wished he had his sidearm as he walked the streets with his wife.

I would feel the same way now, considering Mayor Daley's ongoing assaults on the basic human right of self defense, were I visiting downtown Chicago.