Chicago mayor mulls more gun-control madness

We've already learned that Chicago plans to fight to keep its gun ban. Now we get a glimpse of what looks like Chicago Mayor Daley's backup plan:

Chicago is fighting tooth and nail to keep its 1982 handgun freeze, in part to protect first-responders, even as suburbs such as Wilmette and Morton Grove are throwing in the towel, Mayor Daley said today.

If the nation's highest court says it's OK to keep guns in your home for self-defense, what's to prevent those guns from being used against police officers and firefighters who respond to a domestic quarrel or other emergency, the mayor said.

"What does a policeman do when there's a domestic battery [call] and they're both armed? Do they enter the home or apartment or do they wait outside? ... How 'bout the neighbors? How 'bout the postman -- all the other issues that go with people coming into your home or close to your home? ... Whose responsibility is it when your son takes the gun outside and police come by?" Daley told reporters at a senior citizen development in Roseland.

"You have to look at a new ordinance in order to protect firemen and policemen going to the scenes of people who have armed themselves in their home. ... We serve and protect. We're not supposed to lose our lives ... Morton Grove can do anything they want. What I'm saying is you have to look at the first- responders and how it's gonna jeopardize their lives." [emphasis added]

Daley's pants-wetting hysteria doesn't stop there, however:

"It's just not allowing people to arm themselves. How many guns do you have -- 50, 60? Can they have a .357 Magnum? Can they have ammunition that will go through a wall? What is the liability of the owners? ... Do you have to have insurance if you have a gun? How much ammunition can you have if there's a fire? If a fireman is going to your home and you have 40 weapons and 1,000 rounds, do we have a responsibility to notify all the neighbors?" Daley said. [emphasis added]

Article here. I guess this kind of fear-mongering must play well with the leftie elites -- the ones who can afford bodyguards, or sit on the City Council and write themselves exceptions to the law, or who have taxpayer-funded police security details.

At least we get a glimpse of what's in store for Chicago even if the Supreme Court does rule that the Second Amendment applies to the states (and thus, hellholes like Daleyland Chicago). If the Courts overturn the ban, look for

• limits on the number of guns you can own (can you count all the way to "one"?),


• limits on the number of rounds of ammo you can buy/keep (can you count to "six"?),


• restrictions on caliber (I predict a resurgence of the .25 Auto in Chicagoistan, anything else would be "too powerful"),


• special liability insurance for gun-owners (you thought car insurance in the city was expensive? Try paying those gun liability premiums, if you can even get a policy),


• registration and notification requirements (bought a box of ammo? gotta let the cops, the fire department, EMS, the post office, and all your neighbors know about it)


• draconian storage requirements (locked up behind four miles of concertina wire, unloaded, and/or disassembled -- with a "self-defense exception" for "immediate deadly threats" -- taking a page from their fellow tyrants in Washington, D.C.)


• not to mention annual vision and written tests, fingerprints, high "processing" fees, etc., etc.

You get the idea -- these little Despot politicians will make sure law-abiding residents of their little piece of hell continue to know who's boss, and will make them fight the city (with its deep pockets) tooth and nail in the courts to restore their constitutional and human right to self-defense.