Stop the Slaughter

When will the City of Chicago stop the slaughter of its children by hoodlums packing heat?

The answer? Never!

There will never be enough cops to stop a man from walking up to a couple of kids and shooting and killing one of them. Or shooting into a house and killing a kid doing his homework.

The City of Chicago should stop prohibiting people from defending themselves, and the State of Illinois should stop blocking the right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons.

Look at a map of the murder zone in Chicago - the southeast quadrant near Lake Michigan, although the danger zone exists throughout the City. Just because a person is disadvantaged, poor, unemployed, of color - whatever - does not mean he should not have the right to defend himself and others.

When people feel safe, they can have hope. When kids can go to school, when moms can go to work and not worry about the safety of their kids at home, whether inside the house or outside, then life begins to improve.

Right now there is a lawless society in Chicago. Mayor Daley perpetuates it. He and the Chicago politicians should immediately cease their efforts to prevent the concealed carrying of handguns.

When shooters have to worry about whether somebody might shoot back (or even shoot first!), then the assaults and killings will slow dramatically.

I call on Mayor Daley to give up his armed bodyguards and re-assign them to protect the People. Put them back on the streets, walking beats in the southeast part of his City. The Ward bosses and other Chicago politicians should give up their weapons. Rumor has it that some of them have figured out a way to carry a concealed weapon - presently illegal in Illinois, but they seem to get away with it.

Maybe the Patriot Riders or the Guardian Angels (www.guardianangels.org) or the Minutemen need to start patrolling the streets of Chicago. Heck, I'll go and help, but I'm not going unarmed.