Chicago is urban dysfunction gone berserk. The infernal summer weather there has to exacerbate it but the fundamental reason is that there is a considerable population in the city of people who have, all their lives, been immersed in a culture of cynicism ,negativism, and hate in which criminal prowess is celebrated by far too many. Read the novel Horror of Cabrini Green, published by Holloway House of Los Angeles. Cabrini Green was a notorious public housing complex in Chicago. Many courageous youth have chosen to reject this dominant culture's values but they face harrowing dangers in doing so - dangers that young people in the U.S. should not have to face.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; well what can you say? You have to respect the fact that he served in the Israeli Defense Force. But his political career in America shows him to be a doctrinaire Barack Obama feckless leftist. He is completely at sea in his reaction to Chicago's past murderous weekend and utterly unable to address it in decisive terms. Oh, he gives grudging lip service to the fact that the inhuman violence from last weekend is the product of people for whom human values are laughable absurdities. But he emphasizes that it is because "too many guns are available" that this commotion is happening.
He knows full well that confiscation of firearms from those perpetrating this mayhem is impossible and it is of no moment to him. What he does see is an opportunity to promote the following view: "Yeah, we tried some of the most restrictive gun control in the country in Chicago and it hasn't worked". The obvious conclusion? "It wasn't enough and we need much more because if these misguided miscreants were not enabled by irresponsibly loose gun control laws, they would not have gone amok!" Oh yeah, he did pontificate on "values" but he was fronting, he was fronting!
Look for this to be the prime message of the "common sense gun control" types: " because Chicago has descended into madness, we must enact stricter, far stricter gun control measures; that is the very essence of our stand and if you question it you are detestable."
So get ready for it, lawful gun owners, that's the path they'll take. How to fight it? First, do everything you can to get Judge Kavanaugh confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is by far our best present prospect for a return of the nation's laws to respect for the Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment. The left's particular and devoted animus to this organic right confirmed in the Bill of Rights' yet SECOND Amendment, confirms their determination to pick and choose among those of our rights of which they approve.
Of course they oppose our right to be armed. They know that we gun owners and our organizations support office holders and candidates conservative on a wide range of issues well beyond guns and just as a deer hunter concentrates on the "bread basket", they aim at destruction of our gun owning rights as a key victory in their yet relentless crusade to force unwanted social change on us. If they can take our 2nd Amendment rights they discredit us as a mainstay of conservatism.
By the way, it is possible to return Chicago to sanity. It takes a courageous and perceptive leader, guided by common sense principles on crime, to get it done. Rudolph Guiliani did it in NY (maybe he should run for Mayor of Chicago) but Rahm Emanuel is utterly incapable of it. He's way too far left. Jack
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Jack, I don't know when Chicago will have its next mayoral contest, but it will be very interesting to see how it goes. You're right -- who would have thought NYC would elect Rudy Giuliani? Sometimes extreme challenges force people to be...sensible for a change!
I also agree that the Kavanaugh nomination battle is ultimately the best way to ensure that gun rights are respected in this country. The problem in Chicago, I strongly suspect, is that the political powers-that-be refuse to let the police do their jobs, and many Chicagoans refuse to help the police find and arrest the criminals. As you say, it's the culture that's rotten, so for now my working plan is simply...to avoid Chicago!
Dr. Waddy: We've seen alot of astounding developments: the return of Richard Nixon in 1968, the fall of communism, the rise of Barack Obama, the defeat of the high tide of the American left by, of all people, Donald Trump as we once saw him and of course, the salvation of NYC. It was once as hopeless a place as Chicago is now. But yeah, I know I'll watch from a long way off until its miracle happens, if it does occur.
Hope springs eternal, Jack, and as you suggest "Never say never" is a good phrase to apply to the vicissitudes of politics... It seems to me that the Left's willingness to tolerate effective law enforcement techniques comes in waves. As crime rises, the feasibility of the default liberal approach to criminal justice -- hand holding, blaming "institutional racism", and so forth -- declines. Maybe there are limits to just how dense and detached from reality even a leftist politician can get???
Dr. Waddy: Leftists, who are wont to construe the Constitution in cavalier presumptuousness, nevertheless become strict constructionists when it serves them (eg. with the Second Amendment and with the First when expression is unacceptable to them). Similarly, like criminals, who are very insistent on law enforcement when it favors them (and for much the same reasons), the left is all for law and order when leftist goals are supported by the law (eg. cracking down on "extreme rightists"). Guiliani put the lie, in convincing fashion, to liberal notions of "justice" and in doing so restored a sadly degraded city to greatness ( it is magnificent, I just wish it didn't dominate us).
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