Chicago – -(AmmoLand.com)- The murder of Officer Ella French of the Chicago Police Department is a tragedy. One that Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, has chosen to lay at the feet of those who support the Second Amendment.
She went so far as to say that guns “bring violence.” Well, it’s utter bullshit. I’ve never seen a firearm, be it an AR-15 or a .22 like the Remington 597 or even a Glock 17 do anything on its own. Each of those firearms, and any other I have seen, has required a person to decide to pull the trigger and where to aim them.
But Lightfoot’s bullshit isn’t just an attack on guns and the Second Amendment, it’s also a clear attempt to avoid blame. Like the Mexican government, she has been unable or unwilling to address violent crime seriously, and she wants a scapegoat. Which the Second Amendment – that’s what she means when she attacks guns – is supposed to be.
The thing is, as has been noted here before, there is an answer that can greatly reduce the violence that too many of our fellow Americans in Chicago – and other urban areas – are dealing with. It’s Project Exile, which uses existing provisions of 18 USC 922 and 18 USC 924 to put those who misuse firearms away for a long time.
Put it this way, the scum who ambushed Officer French and her partner were probably the type of people that a restored version of the armed career criminal provisions could have put away for 15 years – minimum. The fact of the matter is that should some of the Second Amendment cases working their way through the courts go our way – cases like those which have stricken bans on standard-capacity magazines and modern multi-purpose semi-automatic firearms – Second Amendment supporters will need to have an alternative ready to the answers we will get from the likes of Bloomberg, Schumer, and the Biden-Harris regime.
They will be seeking to either pack the courts, they will seek to attack our rights via the National Firearms Act or some licensing/registration scheme, they will turn to financial blacklisting (like Operation Chokepoint), or they will try to repeal the Second Amendment. Second Amendment supporters cannot rule out that all of those approaches will be used.
The fact is, using laws on the books to put away bad guys who misuse firearms has worked before. Second Amendment supporters should contact their Representatives and Senators to politely urge support for legislation like the Prosecuting Gun Crimes Saves Lives Act and the Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act. They also need to contact Mayor Lightfoot’s office, and register their displeasure in a firm, but civil, manner. It will also be important to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists via the ballot box at the federal, state, and local levels.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
We are way beyond contacting congress. Can’t vote our way out of this mess either. Outright defiance, civil disobedience and nullifying every unconstitutional gun law (all of them) is where we need to be. I see war in our future. Americans will not accept all their rights being trampled… from censuring text messages in real time (psaki actually admitted they are trying to do that) and killing free speech/privacy… to the latest bill requiring all semiautos to be registered under nfa… to crt indoctrination in schools… to amnesty in the upcoming budget. The left is agitating for civil uprisings intentionally,… Read more »
It’s way past time to eliminate Democrats from positions of Power, they abuse it.
Plus she can’t admit that the officer was killed by a couple of fine black/hispanic yoots. The killer was out on probation for felony and his mother was just arrested for assaulting hospital staff. Great family obviously. So let’s defund the police. What an asinine idea!
Harold, I live in Chicago. We do NOT need anymore legislation, we need the courts to sentence people properly, “the scum who ambushed Officer French” was on PROBATION, he was sentenced to it for a previous felony conviction in Madison, WI.
Well what else is Mayor Bettlejuice going to do. She has to deflect blame from her failed administration. And worst of all, she is mentally deficient, elected by the mentally deficient.
Mayor Light in her Head is totally useless. Put her sorry rear end in a patrol car geared up and let her experience what her city has become under her ‘leadership’ and do the same for the POS DA who refuses to prosecute criminals.
A major part of the problem is that most of Shitcago middle class workers don’t live in the city limits, but in the white bread suburbs. Shitcagos elite ( very few are actually “elite”) live in their penthouses or gated communities, while the “ delites “ actually live IN Ghetto Shitcago and vote there. Like in D. C., Baltimore, Detroit, Etc….
The socialist marxist so called democrats do not want gun crime to stop. They are attempting to use the crime to convince the citizens to agree to allow the confiscation of all firearms. It will not work. Perhaps their thinking is fogged over by hate. However, survey after survey has determined there is somewhere between one hundred fifty million gun owners and two hundred fifty million gun owners (that number is increasing daily if not hourly). That is a good thing. That is one of the reasons there is now a shortage of both guns and ammo. Multiple surveys have also concluded the average number of guns… Read more »
The people of Chicago had better start thinning the thug population
This is as passionate as I’ve seen Mr. Hutchison be about a topic. Kudos for calling BS for BS.