Derrion Albert (Courtesy of Chicago Police)
Chicago high school honor student Derrion Albert was beaten to death Monday night. No guns were involved, but it appears that Mayor Richard Daley has a problem similar to that of New York’s Mayor Bloomberg.
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Purely as a technical matter, Illinois doesn't have registration of the firearm itself other than the federal Form 4473. The FOID card registers the gun owner, not the guns, and you can keep a FOID card without owning a gun (some people do.)
It's a small point, though, especially since every time you purchase a firearm privately, you are required to keep a record of the gun (including serial number) and the FOID of the person to whom you sold or gave it, for years.
I'm not seeing what the story of Derrion Albert has to do with Chicago's gun control laws. Are you saying that if this kid had a gun he wouldn't have been beaten up? You are advocating that high school students be allowed to carry guns?
George: People google keywords and click on links. Maybe like you? The goal is to get them to read the article and learn about Chicago's apparently racist gun control laws.
Howard, how can Chicago's gun laws be considered "racist" if they apply to everyone in the city - Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian and black? It's BECAUSE OF the riots of 1967 and 1968; and the fact that most of the killings in Chicago are done by blacks to other blacks; that Chicago has such draconian gun laws. The pols, judges and cops know who is doing the killings, but, so as not to appear "racist" they apply those laws to everyone.
It's like the teacher of the eighth grade class who threatens the entire class, that they won't graduate on stage unless the kid in the back row stops talking.
So it is in Chicago, where all of the people therein, have their Second Amendment rights infringed, because of the actions of Michael Vick, Tupac Shakur and NWA-type thugs in its ghetto areas.
Don Gwinn, my nephew does not own a firearm, but he has an Illinois FOID card.
Because Luis, the first gun laws enacted in America had to do solely for the purpose of denying the slaves the right to own or possess a firearm.
Before the Civil War ended, State "Slave Codes" prohibited slaves from owning guns. After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was adopted and the Civil War ended in 1865, States persisted in prohibiting blacks, now freemen, from owning guns under laws renamed "Black Codes." They did so on the basis that blacks were not citizens, and thus did not have the same rights, including the right to keep and bear arms protected in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as whites. This view was specifically articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in its infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford to uphold slavery.
The United States Congress overrode most portions of the Black Codes by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Knowing that the origin of gun control laws was for racist purposes, please explain with any logic how then that gun control isnt racist in intent and application by the police state powers that exist.
Especiallin Chicago where in 1970, the state constitution was explicitly changed to state constitution where State Right to Bear Arms.
Article I, § 22 of the Illinois Constitution provides, "Subject only to the police power, (was inserted) the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
This change was in reaction to the riots in the late 1960's.
Dont forget that the elitists (the Daley's, Bloombergs, Soro's), by their actions of allowing only the privileged to posses these banned weapons have created a defacto caste system, that discrminates against the average citizen owning the same, best tool for self defense. Discrimination is one of the bsic tenants of racism and is just not a white and black thing as you tried to elaborate on.
Gun control was once used to control "dark people", but it has morphed into more generic control over persons of all colors.
Still one has to wonder whether racism does not persist in the hearts and minds of elitists, both country club conservatives and limousine liberals, which manifests itself in the form of support for restrictive gun control laws.
Oh, sure, gun control supporters will deny the connection to racism today or more bizarrely they will claim it's really those of us who support the R2KBA who are the racists. However, one need only look to the results then scratch one's head and wonder. Many of us don't wonder for long. We know there remains an unspoken connection between gun control and racism.
Historically racism was at the core of most gun control laws in the U.S. dating back to a time when we were still colonies in the early 1700s.
In Watson v. Stone (1941), the Florida Supreme Court ruled that an 1893 Florida gun control law "... was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State ... and the Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers ... The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied ..."
Robert Sherrill is the author of "The Saturday Night Special" and a proponent of restrictive gun control laws. In SNS, he wrote, "The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed not to control guns but to control blacks".
"Michael Vick, Tupac Shakur and NWA-type thugs in its ghetto areas."
This makes no sense what so ever.
Any surprise the IOC turned a blind eye towards this city?
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