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Chicago Police Superintendent: ‘Stop Adopting the Rhetoric Of Gun Advocates — Chicago Does Not Have Strict Gun Laws’

Feb. 11, 2013 6:23pm Jason Howerton

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy: Chicago Does Not Have Strict Gun Laws

CHICAGO, IL – FEBRUARY 11: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (R) listens as Police Superintendant Garry McCarthy (L) speaks during a press conference which they called to promote a plan to increase mandatory minimum sentencing for serious gun crimes in an effort to combat the city’s growing gun violence problem on February 11, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. President Barack Obama is expected to speak about the city’s growing gun violence problem during a visit to Chicago on Friday. Last year the city had more than 500 murders. Credit: Getty Images

Despite having some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the Windy City “does not have strict gun laws.”

“One of the things that I would like to again try to clear up, and I ask you to please stop adopting the rhetoric of the gun advocates,” McCarthy said, addressing the press.

Unsurprisingly, no one is buying it. The Washington Times reports:

Despite the superintendent’s claims, Chicago has some of the strictest gun-control mandates in the country. “Assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines are completely banned and, until a 2010 Supreme Court decision, so were handguns.

Residents now can get a permit to own a gun, but the process requires training, background checks and a firearm owner’s identification card.

“We’re here today to talk about the fact that we need mandatory minimum sentences in the state of Illinois,” he said, accompanied by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. He says that increasing punishments will help prevent guns from coming into the Chicago from various outside areas.

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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:48pm
I would rather die of a gun shot wound trying to defend myself with a gun, then die of a gunshot wound without access to a weapon.

I have gotten to the point where I will go through the hassle of declaring a weapon so I can transport it in checked luggage when I fly commercial, which is every freaking week….but even then, I gotta check to see if the state I am traveling to will recognize my C&C.

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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:33pm
  Get a CCW from a few other states as well. May I suggest Utah, Florida, and Virginia? Reciprocity will mean a much easier time for you in your travels.
  
  Also, if you have an iPhone, it’s worth looking at downloading “Legal Heat”, and app which keeps current states laws regulating firearms.
  
  FYI the “Legal Heat” rating for the State of Illinois is a gravestone, signifying that compared to other States, Illinois has killed 2nd Amendment freedoms.
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:41pm
  Another overly compensated and worthless top cop.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:55pm
  Propaganda as far as the eye can see.
  
  Either that or these officials are literally as dumb as rocks. Apologies to rocks.
  
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- Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:32am
  “Chicago Police Superintendent: ‘Stop Adopting the Rhetoric Of Gun Advocates — Chicago Does Not Have Strict Gun Laws’”
  
  So what did that gun-grabbin’, anti-Constitution, anti-American, government-thug “Chief” say about stealing law-abiding-people’s firearms under Chicago’s tyrannical “laws”?
  
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- Derek01
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:20am
  Like most liberally run cities and states have two types of gun laws. One for law abiding citizens- you can’t have one and we’ll severely punish you if you do, and one for criminals- well boys will be boys. It’s much easier, and safer to abuse law abiding citizens than criminals. After all you don’t want to make a criminal mad, he might hurt you
  
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- sam1064
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:25am
  Politicians are amazing, so lets see, murder is against the law in Il, so Supt McCarty, can you tell us how making other gun related crimes carry a mandatory minimum will reduce gun crimes when the punishment for murder does not? BTW, IL abolished the death penalty a few years ago and right after that murder in Chicago soared. Coincidence? I thin it is. However, having the death penalty as an option may allow for more murders being solved and taking those bad guys off the streets may actually REDUCE crime (you hear that Rham?) making guns you dont like illegal wont reduce crime as criminals are called criminals for a good reason because they break the law. Duh. Man most of these guys went to Ivy League schools. what are they teaching there?
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:22am
  Once again, this proves that Chicago union cops are idiots.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:54pm
  Carry a prepaid, FedEx box with you. If your flight gets diverted to say NYC, and your try to check your pistol when you depart, you will be arrested. Best to FexEX it to yourself either at your home or your next destination……
  
  If these leftists are selling this 98 Octane BS, I’m not buying……..better yet. build a fence around Chicago; supply them with food and ammo; when the shooting stops, send the survivors to prision.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Which is why I refuse to travel into a state that doesn’t recognize my Tenn permit….
  
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BannedByHuffpo
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:48pm
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain…”

Jeez. There must be something in the water in Illinois that they keep inflicting crackpots like this dope, Rahm and BHO on the rest of America.

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- MyAlaska
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:33pm
  You know that hole to the other side of the earth? I think the Kremlin exit must be under Chicago.
  
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- therightisright909
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:28pm
  I live in Illinois (Southern Illinois) and what they do in Chicago is not reflective of the entire state. We would like for Chicago to secede from Illinois. Maybe they could call it Obamaland.
  
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- Johann
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:23am
  McCarthy is another member of the Irish Mafia which controls most of the big cities and their police forces in the USA. Any city controlled by the Irish Mafia is usually crime ridden, corrupt and democrat. These boys from the old sod take time out from their boozing at the old pub to come out and bow down to Obama, their new godl.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:28am
  Johann
  
  As an American of Irish descent, I beg to differ with your comments. We don’t take time out from our drinks. We finish them all before we conduct Irish Mafia business. What proud Irishman would walk away from his whiskey or ale?
  
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- Onesimus
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:46pm
  Add your comments
  
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BHOHG2G
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:47pm
My solution is to build a wall around Chicago. Top it with barbed wire and call it a prison.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:02pm
  Shoot, fill it with water.
  
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- Stone Cold Truth
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:12pm
  Lol! “Escape from Chicago.” Kurt Russel approves this idea.
  
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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:17pm
  Do a Glenn Beck captured in Urine…..I’ll supply some.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:50pm
  RJJ:
  Only if you get Obama to visit the city, before we lock the gates.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:14pm
  it will become just like the Gaza if that was done.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:25pm
  Would it be Gaza without the charm and beauty? But even in Gaza, they speak and write better english, just look at their protest signs.
  
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- therightisright909
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 9:33pm
  Here! Here! A wonderful idea. We in Southern Illinois wish it would be gobbled up by Lake Michigan. It is but a cesspool of thugs and slimy politicians and it’s almost impossible to differentiate between them.
  
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- marmond
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:45pm
  It would be a great place to invite the president, all his minions, congress and the supreme court justices then lock the doors and let them find out what it is like to live in the real world. Our leaders would make better decisions if they had some real life experiences and not live in their gilded and guarded cages.
  
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- Exiled
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:22am
  But not the entire city! Some of it must be worthwhile. Maybe we can have an “East Chicago” and a “West Chicago”.
  
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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:47pm
Sad to say it but he is correct. Not that they don’t have strict gun laws, but that both sides need to quit advocating using the words of the opponent. Doesn’t help either side.

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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:56pm
  Hey, fight fire with fire. There’s only one side doing the stripping of rights.
  
  http://www.gunreports.com/news/news/Federal-Judge-Kicks-out-part-of-Chicago-Gun-Law_4210-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:01pm
  hoot owl… no one is stripping rights
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:37pm
  @Keatonc333 You’re a moron. Chicago just lost a lawsuit wherein the Supreme Court stated that the city’s ban on handguns was unconstitutional. It further stated that Chicago residents had a right to own and use a handgun, a right which the city, not only prohibited, but punished those who exercised it. Go back to your cave, you’re opinions are worth nothing in the real world.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:56pm
  *your
  
  “In another dramatic victory for firearm owners, the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional Chicago, Illinois’, 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership, a potentially far-reaching case over the ability of state and local governments to enforce limits on weapons.
  
  A 5-4 conservative majority of justices on Monday reiterated its 2-year-old conclusion that the Constitution gives individuals equal or greater power than states on the issue of possession of certain firearms for self-protection.
  
  “It cannot be doubted that the right to bear arms was regarded as a substantive guarantee, not a prohibition that could be ignored so long as states legislated in an evenhanded manner,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito.” http://articles.cnn.com/2010-06-28/justice/us.scotus.handgun.ban_1_justices-two-years-gun-control-justices-john-paul-stevens?_s=PM:CRIME
  
  Chicago for decades stripped its citizen’s of the right to own handguns even in their own freaking home!
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:57pm
  I see some relatively smart regressives up in here.
  
  They can type, but facts are way off as per usual.
  
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- team1blazer
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:16am
  You are Totally a TROLL
  
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pavepaws
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:46pm
What a motley crew of desperados.

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- Advection
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:53pm
  *Heavily armed* desperadoes.
  
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freenj
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:45pm
McCarthy must be hitting the Irish whiskey again.

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woodyee
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:44pm
Nothing worse than a serial liar for a cop…NOTHING. Superintendent McCarthy can kiss my royal American arse, the dagblum liar. Go felate Rahm Emmanuel next time you feel the need to get close to an upright microphone, McCarthy!!!

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rickroland
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:44pm
Yeah, and on Sundays, elves and unicorns frolic in greater Chicago area parks. No, really.

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- skyguy51
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:38pm
  Are you sure it’s not eunuchs and brain dead zombies that inhabit City Hall?
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:44pm
They want to remain in power and are deadly afarid of decent folks having Guns to enforce the Constitution and Bill of rights, look at the fear in their lefty eyes

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- Advection
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:59pm
  The thing that scares these people the most is the People waking up to their Constitutional liberties and rights.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:02pm
  no ones afraid of decent people with guns. don’t flatter yourself
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:37pm
  What the hell is a SAFF Sergeant? Are you connected with the South Asian Football Federation? The South Australian Farmers Federation? The Svenska Amerikansk Fotbollförbundet? The South Asian Film Festival? The Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair? Because those are the only SAFFs I’ve ever heard of, but I can’t imagine why the employees of any of those organizations would employ any form of paramilitary nomenclature.
  
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Magyar
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:44pm
Sold out political whore

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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:43pm
Well Garry if you have one ‘gun law’ it’s too many and unconstitutional but not to worry this country hasn’t followed the constitution in over a century and it’s statists like yourself that makes things worse.

“Assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines are completely banned and, until a 2010 Supreme Court decision, so were handguns.

Residents now can get a permit to own a gun, but the process requires training, background checks and a firearm owner’s identification card.

Training a permit and ID card are infringements on our second amendment right to bear arms and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise. Just because constitutionally illiterate congresses have over stepped their authority and created ‘gun laws’ doesn’t mean they’re constitutional,none of them are.

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- Stone Cold Truth
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:07pm
  It’s like requiring training, a permit, and an ID in order to vote.
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:23pm
  Dam straight!! I have to waste a whole Saturday listening to a lawyer go over all the new laws they’ve created in the last 5 yrs… plus spend $200 on the classes and the permit to carry, by the time my permit expires in 2018 I wonder what will be left of the 2nd???? It’s a frickin joke…
  
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dodgedart1966
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:43pm
“Of course they’re not strict enough. Honest citizens can still get a gun.”
That’s how these crazy libs think.
I’ve bought 4 since Aurora

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- TyrannyNoMore
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:23pm
  Trying to reduce crime and gun violence with more gun control….. is like trying to reduce drunk driving by taking cars away from sober people.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:42pm
When dazzling brilliance, and baffling bull sh/t no longer work, just flat out lie.
These are not the droids you’re looking for.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:11pm
  it’s like the kid from the other day with sprinkles all over his face.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:42pm
All guns were literally banned in chicago until the handgun ban was overturned by the supreme court. And now only handguns are technically legal, despite nobody actually being able to legally own one because the city literally shut down it’s gun registration division so nobody can actually register a gun. How is outright banning all guns not strict? Please do explain that one mr. superintendant.

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:50pm
  Why should I have to register my weapons when the criminals do not?
  
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- BHOHG2G
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Obviously since at least one person has a gun, the laws are not strict enough. Just like like you’re not broke if you have one penny in your pocket.
  
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- braddock66
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:52am
  We have lost the country! And won’t do a thing about it. So sad.
  
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ThomasUSA
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:42pm
I swear these people never played “connect the dots” as kids.. You know what I mean? They see all these dots but never make the connection. Maybe the gun dot connects to the gang dot? or the crime dot, or the corruption dot… or how about this one.. the tyranny dot?

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Saff SGT
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:42pm
Here we go the Chicago spin masters.. hahahah see that Commie bastard wearing a US Flag what a shot in the ass for America a frigging Communist wearing an American flag on his lapel, shocking

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republic2011
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:41pm
These guys all live by the model that if you tell a lie often enough, it eventually becomes truth. It amazes me how they can just blatantly lie and not be challenged. But with the media in the bag and not doing their job, what do you expect? This tactic is used all the way up to the President and they don’t even stutter. They have an agenda and that is full blown gun control. That will make the sheep much easier to slaughter when they open up the welcoming doors to the UN to come in, take over, and expand their “New World Order”. BTW, for those of you that consider yourself a Republican and want to defend George H.W. Bush, you should know that his Daddy was a banker that helped fund Hitler’s rise to power. Hitler’s rise was one of the banking cartel’s attempts at forming the New World Order. When Hitler decided to mint his own currency and told the bankers to take a hike, they turned on him. I wonder what the Fed and the rest of the banking cartel will do to the US and its citizens once they have decimated our currency.

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hades3
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:39pm
Yeah right ! and Chicago does not have one of the highest murder rates in the country either.
As a matter of fact, Chicago has never had a high crime rate in the cities history. If you are willing too stand before the world and lie, try too do a good job , at least at that.

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1TrueOne55
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:39pm
Ask Al Capone where he got his firepower for the Valentines Day Massacre. CRIMINALS WILL NOT FOLLOW THE LAWS AS ENACTED. And anyone who thinks they will is delusional and should be involuntarily committed for life, or at least until they can prove they no longer believe that way.

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LOJ
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:37pm
Neither Emmanuel or McCarthy will look into the fact that many economists have told them when the public is armed there is less crime…Read John Lott’s book “More Guns Less Crime.” Gun bans increase crime. Chicago’s murder rate rose after the 7th Circuit US court of Appeals upheld its ban on new handguns in 1982. Over the 19 years following the ban, there were only 3 years when the murder rate was as low as it was in 1982. As shown in Lott’s third edition of More Guns Less Crime, before the ban, Chicago’s murder rate was falling relative to the nine other largest cities, but after the ban Chicago’s rate rose relative to other cities. Illinois is the only state not to have conceal carry, and that is pretty Draconian. McCarthy has broken up the police force’s gang units and moved officers around the city. This is a mistake as it takes years for them to get to know who the good and bad guys are on any given street….This includes the street where 7 year old Heaven Sutton was gunned down last June while she sold candy and snow cones with her mother and other family members. Stopping gang violence and making city streets safe again is a complex and difficult job. Bust neither Emmanuel or McCarthy will consider getting out of the way of residents constitutional freedoms, thereby letting the people be equal citizens on their own streets.

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- confederacyofdunces
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:52pm
  I think the intent is to create more crime and have more killings so the people will run to the Government to save them because they have been disarmed. I honestly believe that the goal of Democrats/ Progressives is to create an unarmed populace with huge crime and drug problems so the people can always depend on government for protection. It is like the oppisite of the gangsters charging protection money, Which crooks do you want to be beholden to, the govt or the Al Capones. I choose neither but we need to win the 2nd Amendment issue for once and for all and get rid of Progressives and all they stand for.
  
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MDECKER
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:37pm
Superintendent McCarthy should be fired, never to employed in law enforcement again. His integrity is non-existent. He was supposed to be in charge of protecting and serving the citizens of Chicago, but instead has chosen to be just another hack in the “Chicago Machine”. Anytime Rahm smiles, you can bet that something is wrong.

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Advection
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:33pm
“War is peace.”
“Slavery is freedom.”
“Poverty is wealth.”
“Misery is joy.”

YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, CITIZEN?!

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showmerancher
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:30pm
So, let me get this straight. These folks believe that criminals, who are purchasing firearms illegally in order to murder people (i.e. gang bangers, cartel members, etc.) are going to worry about a longer sentence for using an illegally obtained gun????

Rahm, quit toking buddy… your brain is fried.

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- Stone Cold Truth
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:05pm
  I think the goal is to prosecute the out of state/city sellers more than the actual criminals. They think the only problem is the fact that all the other cities and states are still allowed to sell firearems. With the help of “moderate conservativs” like Bill O’Reilly, the statists are going to push a federal registration program for all firearms in the name of safety. That opens the door for taxation, confiscation, and legal liability. They want to hold gun owners accountable for privately sold and stolen firearms. That way the criminals in Chicago are no longer the problem. It puts the liabilty on regualr citizens who choose to own firearms.
  
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- Apexduck
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:47pm
  Yes longer gun sentences for criminals they fail to arrest and convict. And they are all now on double secret probation to !!!!
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:29pm
Go bring up the FBI’s UCRs. Look at the data.

It’ll tell you quite frankly what/who needs banned, and it ain’t guns.

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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Can you elaborate a little ?
  
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JTX
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:27pm
Shut up you jackass. These people should all be in prison.

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- BHOHG2G
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:53pm
  They are! They live in Chicago.
  
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