Op-ed: Quit your anti-gun tantrum, Chicago...

[spin]

Quit your anti-gun tantrum, Chicago
By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman May 27, 2011 5:38PM

The Second Amendment Foundation recently filed two important suits that, when one cuts through all the legal language, essentially challenge government hostility toward two U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment.

One suit is aimed at the District of Columbia, where city officials have engaged in a series of actions deliberately designed to allow the city to dance around the landmark 2008 Heller ruling that struck down the District’s handgun ban as a violation of the right to keep and bear arms.

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The Foundation is challenging the City of Chicago’s ridiculously cumbersome handgun permit ordinance, which was written in an effort to allow the Windy City to thumb its nose at the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago, which incorporated the Second Amendment to the states through the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Gun prohibitionists cannot have it their way. Our Constitution, our Supreme Court, and our American traditions say so. Simply because they arrogantly believe they are above the law does not make it so.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/5609403-417/quit-your-anti-gun-tantrum-chicago.html

So why am I publishing an op-ed by a founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation and a senior editor of Gun Week?

Seattle Gun Rights Examiner co-authors Chicago Sun Times op-ed
May 28th, 2011 10:28 am ET

"Quit your anti-gun tantrum, Chicago," a May 27 Chicago Sun-Times editorial headline by Second Amendment Foundation Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb and Gun Week Senior Editor Dave Workman commands.

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Workman, in addition to being a career journalist with full-time professional responsibilities at Gun Week, additionally manages to produce a regular Gun Rights Examiner column geared toward the Seattle market, but also covering issues of national importance--he was one of four people recently honored by Soldier of Fortune Magazine with its Second Amendment Freedom Fighter Award for 2011, in recognition of the groundbreaking work he has done uncovering and reporting on "Project Gunwalker" scandal developments. Other award recipients for their work on "Gunwalker" included Mike Vanderboegh of the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog, Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, and this correspondent.

Having an editorial published in the Chicago market by a major newspaper that is traditionally hostile to the right to keep and bear arms is an achievement with untold potential--for many of the readers, it could be the first time they have been exposed to such cogent arguments, plus, as this will undoubtedly provoke pro and con feedback (that is, evidence of readership), it could encourage the paper to continue providing a forum for such viewpoints.
http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/seattle-gun-rights-examiner-co-authors-chicago-sun-times-op-ed

I wonder if the Chicago Sun Times would have published this op-ed if Daley was still mayor.

[DWC]

1. The Truth is where you find it

even in Chicago.

Semper Fi,

[1620rock]

2. God forbid that anyone should walk around in America without a gun.

[PavePusher]

3. Many do. It's all about individual choice.

What's your point?

[petronius]

4. I'd prefer that S/He simply forbid that no qualified person is denied the right

to choose whether or not to carry a gun (or, actually, lots of other things that authoritarian types from across the spectrum see fit to try and restrict)...

[hack89]

5. God forbid that supreme court rulings be respected. nt

[cleanhippie]

6. You mean god forbid anyone be PREVENTED from legally walking around.....

But you keep on keeping on with the nonsensical inflammatory rhetoric.