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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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Shoot_Drive_Survive
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:43pm
Hey Chief, it is chief, right?…or are you too good for that…listen, you work for a hack. If anyone is spewing rhetoric it’s you. I have to ask…did you feel this way when you were a line cop, a real cop pushing a radio car around, or has this come on since you decided to be a pissant administrator? You realize no one believes you line of B.S….right? Especially with that little marxist thug looking over your soulder. Back in the day when you were the real police, you would’ve put the smack down on a turd like him…

As is the case with most “chiefs” you lost your b*lls when you put on that first set of Captains bars, you lost your brains when you got to Deputy Chief and you sold your SOUL to get the big job. Why don’t you get out from under Rahm’s desk wipe your face off and at least get your dignity back.

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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:28pm
hahahaha… these officials belong on comedy central.

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Uechi
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:16pm
Ok, you cannot legally buy a handgun in Chicago. You cannot get a Concealed Carry Permit in Chicago. I believe there are no gun stores or rifle/pistol ranges in Chicago for civilians. Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the USA and this AH say’s they don’t. Chicago has some of the most violent gangs in the USA. Chicago killed approximately 500 people last year as the result of gun violence most of them young blacks. What happens when you don’t enforce the laws you have a city that has been corrupt since before Al Capone and where Gun Free Zones and Democrats/Progressives rule. Vote with your feet people get the hell out!

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:16pm
Now we know who must be the biggest crack consumer in Chicago.

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DefyTYRANNY
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:09pm
Chicago is a pimple on the a** of America.

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BenFrank1791
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:00pm
Chicago the city that “Once worked”… the future Detroit.

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intercepter
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:52pm
the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
best I can tell trying to take away ,control or limit guns ammo ect. is infringing ,and it specifically says shall not be infringed,so stop doing it ,and get your asses back to work on a budget ,and getting the economy back on line

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pissantno.10
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:34pm
just another chicago crook . no one belives the slim balls any more

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treas54
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:26pm
Alinskyites through and through.

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EllieR
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:20pm
Gun identification card good, voter identification card baa-a-a-ad!

They also want every gangsta to train and probably pass some sort of test which, even after a suitable Affirmative Action Adjustment, requires a certain degree of comprehension and the ability to string a few words together, quite a challenge.

How dare they discriminate against minorities.

News flash: gangsta could not care less about your law. Every parolee openly carries a gun in Chicago and, I should add, uses it regularly.

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Inform
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:15pm
BULLCORN! The landmark ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, which held that the “Second Amendment was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment thus protecting those rights from infringement by local governments” which found Chicago in violation of. After the Supreme shut them down, within four days, Chicago implemented a de facto ban on handguns by adopting the Responsible Gun Owners Ordinance, a number of draconian restrictions on owning firearms. These restrictions included requiring owners to have certified classroom and range training, but banning ranges in the city limits, banning gun stores inside city limits, not allowing a gun owner to step into their garage with their firearm, only allowing one working firearm in the home at any given moment, and owners had to visit multiple locations to register the gun yearly along with licensing fees.
http://www.youargue.com/index.php/34b13z211

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Xanderson
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:13pm
Whatever you say, keep up the good work!

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woodyee
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:07pm
LakeHartwellSailor brought up a good point about traveling and his C&C (the blessed man has a job requiring him to travel by plane weekly, and he’s complaining! LOL!). This is for him and the rest of you good folks –

Compendium of State Firearm Laws – http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/articles/2010/compendium-of-state-firearms-laws.aspx

and for those of you in my State of Hypocritical Insanity (Kaleefourneeyah) – http://www.gunlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=88

Hope this helps!

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NDPINDNT
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:07pm
A City that is a fine example of what will happen with strict gun control. Just look at their stats before and after they went into effect.

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BlackCrow
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:03pm
This is the political machine that produced Barack Obama.

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Dano9375
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:02pm
Typical Democrat I suppose… Unfortunately no matter how times he says it, it still doesn’t make it so… Probably got the advise from Rahm Emanuel because until Obama became president, I’ve never experienced a government official lie over and over regardless of the facts until everyone seemed to finally agreethat the lie was the truth and the truth was the lie.

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toidiegalliv
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:01pm
I would that I could see this man and his companions as idiotic. As it is, due to their intelligence, experience and training, I perceive that the root of their communication is evil. Evil, like stupid, is as it does. Lying is not an attribute of a good man, nor does it support a good cause, but it does have a father. These liars have chosen a father in addition to the one that provided the seed for their conception and unknown to them, they are hated.

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Eternal
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:59pm
Chicago gets what it deserves

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bikerdogred1
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:58pm
Just like the riots of 67 when the big thing was to say burn baby burn,well today they say shoot’em up baby shoot’em up.

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- woodyee
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:17pm
  A profundity! Crime in Chicago is not caused by inanimate objects. It is ALL behavioral. It is illogical (thus nonsense) to equate the availability of a particular weapon to any and all criminal activity. Criminal activity WILL occur unless the behavior of the populace is changed, no matter the availability of weapons.
  
  To change behavior, one has to look at demographics, assimilation and education – therein lies the problem – POLITICIANS. Poverty causes crime about as much as a pencil causes mistakes.
  
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i_believe
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:57pm
Not that I’m for restrictions but consider this …. but theoretically, if all of the Obama supporters were to lose their guns, 99% of the problem would be gone.

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fastgen1
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:56pm
And again—-The foxes are in the hen house, dressed up as hen inspectors and lying through their ugly teeth to the chickens, and guess what, the chickens believe them. My god, people in Chicago are either stupid, or, corrupt. In either case they deserve what they get.

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tankyjo
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:54pm
Just keep lying, it’ll serve your purpose for a short season.

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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:53pm
I love a guy who can justify his own miserable job performance by simply saying he doesn’t have a problem.

Why not admit the strict gun control has failed, offer a pilot program of one year of looser gun laws and see if the rate of murders diminish?

“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”

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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:52pm
Yeah right..
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Federal lawsuits are still seeking to overturn the city’s ban on retail gun stores and to remove restrictions forbidding guns from yards and on front porches.

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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no1hd
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:49pm
He forgot they don’t have any bogus politicians and police – in and out and going to prison, no gangs or gang members they do nothing about – like memphis, tn and he like rahm are part of if not the main problem.

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