Guns caused the Fort Hood mass-murder, says Chicago's Mayor

November 12, 6:36 AMLaw Enforcement ExaminerJim Kouri

"Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at Fort Hood to push his gun prohibition agenda," said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

"This is the height of moral bankruptcy from a man whose administration was sued Wednesday morning by the Chicago inspector general over apparent interference with an investigation into possible wrongdoing by current and former city employees."

The Mayor of one of the most -- if not the most -- politically corrupt cities in the United States, Daley reacted to the Fort Hood shooting by telling reporters, "Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that, uh, we see devastation on a daily basis. You don't blame a group."

"You don't blame guns, either," Gottlieb fired back. "You hold the perpetrator responsible for his crime, not the instruments he used. Would Daley blame cars for the highway carnage created by drunk drivers?"

Gottlieb went on to say, "Perhaps the real culprit here is former President Bill Clinton. The Washington Times revealed this morning that after he took office in 1993, the Army, under Clinton, instituted a ban on the carrying of firearms by military personnel on their bases. As a result, soldiers have been disarmed and left vulnerable to this kind of attack. Using Daley's logic, he should blame Clinton for the Fort Hood massacre. That makes more sense than blaming guns."

Mayor Daley is proud of his involvement with a group called Mayor Against Illegal Guns, says political strategist Mike Baker.

"As with our current president -- who hails from Chicago -- Daley is your typical Illinois politician who talk like Hippies but behave like the Mafia," he quipped. 

Gottlieb and other gun-rights activists believe Daley has an agenda that he shares with other anti-gun extremists: They will exploit any tragedy to pursue their goal of public disarmament and destruction of the Second Amendment. Whether it is the assassination of a Seattle police officer, the murder of 13 people at Fort Hood, or the horrible body count of crime victims that has piled up in Chicago under Daley's regime, they will dance through the blood toward the nearest sympathetic microphone to push their cause.

"I'm not a member of any gun-rights group, but I'm not buying [Mayor] Daley's analysis. The Fort Hood murders were perpetrated by a radical Islamist. In this case, he used firearms. He could have used any other method -- IED [improvised explosive device] or bio-weapon -- and still would have killed innocent people. Perhaps more than the 13 deaths attributed to the killer's attack," explains former NYPD detective and US Marine Sid Frances.

"America must ignore the ravings of anti-gun fanatics," he concluded, "who are so blinded by a hatred for individual liberty and personal protection that they cannot see how foolish and petty they have become," said Gottlieb.

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.