Chicago has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the nation.
They have their own ban on assault or assault-style weapons or high capacity magazines. Guns have to be registered and they are now banned from any establishment that serves alcohol. The city bans the sale of any firearm within city limits. If a gun is stolen, the owner is required to report the theft immediately or face a fine.
On top of this, the state of Illinois requires a Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card before they can obtain a permit and license to purchase and own a firearm anywhere in the state. Anyone convicted of a felony, domestic violence, assault and battery, subject to a protection order or been a mental patient within the past five years are eligible for a FOID card. If they have one, the police are instructed to revoke the FOID card immediately. Any buying a gun within the state must first have a FOID card. If a gun is given as a gift, say father gives one of his guns to a son, the son must first obtain a FOID card. In order to obtain a FOID card, a background check is made.
Despite all of the gun restrictions, FOID cards and the tough gun laws in the Windy City, Chicago has recently become the murder capital of the country. The situation has become so severe that Gov. Pat Quinn said last week that he is seriously considering using the state’s National Guard troops to help stop the rampant violence. Quinn is already using state police to help police in East St. Louis, another city experiencing a high rate of gun violence.
When asked about using state police or National Guard in Chicago, Quinn responded :
“It has to be done in a coordinated fashion with the local law enforcement, with their full cooperation.”
“I think anyone who saw what happened in Cornell Park the other night was horrified by the violence. I live on the West Side of Chicago. It is an area that has been inflicted with violence, and we’ve got to protect the people.”
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not saying much about the governor’s plans to send in National Guard troops. Speaking at a basketball ‘Peace Tournament’ last week, Emanuel refused to respond to reporter’s questions and left the area almost immediately.
President Obama and his Democrat puppets are once again calling for more gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings. They keep regurgitating the same old argument that stricter gun laws will reduce gun violence. If that were true, Chicago, New York City and Washington DC should be among the safest cities in the nation, but they aren’t. They all rank among America’s most dangerous cities because of the gun violence . In fact, these cities prove the opposite is true. The stricter the gun laws, the higher the gun violence, because criminals know that the citizens aren’t armed or their guns are locked in safes and not easily accessible when needed.
As many conservatives like me point out, Obama’s push for gun control laws has nothing to do with reducing gun violence and has everything to do with disarming Americans.
Hitler did not gain full control over the German people until they forced them to register their guns. Once registered, the Nazis knew where the guns were and they systematically confiscated them from the people. After the German people were stripped of their guns, Hitler’s fascist regime was able to place an entire nation under their tyrannical rule. The same thing has happened in a number of communist countries over the past sixty years.
This is the reason behind Obama’s push for more gun control. He will not rest until he has successfully forced Americans to register all of their guns. Once they know where all the guns are, his agents will know where to go to confiscate them. Once enough guns have been confiscated, he can establish his tyrannical socialist regime and place the American people under his dictatorial rule.
Read more at http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/09/chicago-g...xP6F2h0.99
