You would be hard pressed to find a more anti-gun politician than Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Which makes the headline from a Second Amendment Foundation press release an interesting example of "Do as I say, not as I do" elitism:

DALEY’S BODYGUARD CATCHES KILLER; ‘WE SHOULD ALL BE SO LUCKY,’ SAYS SAF

SAF Chairman Alan Gottlieb nails it:

“Mayor Daley is protected by an armed guard,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, “but what about the citizens of his city, who have no such luxury? The mayor is a world class hypocrite, who has bodyguards with guns to protect him from escaped killers like Charles Smith. Yet he is continuing to stubbornly fight against average citizens who are willing to protect themselves, but unable to because of Daley’s deranged double standard about firearms and personal protection.”

Chicago, of course, has outlawed handguns for citizens who did not have them registered since 1982, and re-registered them every year thereafter. And if you fail to do so? You lose your guns.

That is, unless you're a connected politician, like Alderman Richard Mell, who supported that law, but who neglected to re-register his guns:

At first, he tried blaming it on a staffer failing to do it for him. The other thing is, gun owners are personally responsible for doing this.

Then he tried getting the Chicago Police Department's Gun Registration Section to allow him "to re-register his guns belatedly." Not having any provision of law that would allow them to do that, they declined. So what's an anti-gun elite gun-owning Chicago politician to do?

"Mell has quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a 1-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament," The Sun Times report continued.

Make no mistake--it's a good thing that the mayor's bodyguard stopped a dangerous criminal (albeit, one who escaped due to government failing in its responsibilities in the first place). But as Gottlieb notes:

“While Daley can lounge in the protective shadow of armed bodyguards even when he is out of state, average citizens in Chicago and all over Illinois must contend with the mayor’s elitist attitude about gun ownership. Most people can’t afford armed bodyguards.

“So long as Daley fights to keep his fellow citizens unarmed he does not deserve the protection of men with guns...Take away his bodyguards and just tell him to dial 9-1-1 like the rest of us."

Sounds fair to me.