Posted September 8, 2017 8:00 am by Comments

By Andrew Shepperson

Chicago Ald. Edward Burke. (Photo: Chicago Tribune)
Two Chicago aldermen are pushing an ordinance that would ban guns and other weapons from all protests held in the Windy City.
The aldermen, Finance Chairman Edward Burke and Public Safety Committee Chairman Ariel Reboyras, two of the most powerful in the City Council, introduced the ordinance Wednesday and want all Chicago protestors and others involved in public demonstrations to be prohibited from carry guns and other weapons.
The move comes as a direct response to the violent protests in Charlottesville and aims to follow the example set by Boston’s prohibition of weapons at a recent Free Speech rally.
In the ordinance, the alderman propose that Chicago should implement the ban to try and prevent a repeat of the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, where one woman was killed and 19 others injured when a neo-Nazi drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
“We have already seen violence and even death at these rallies,” the preamble to the ordinance states. “But, the potential is far worse if participants continue to carry guns into such confrontational situations,”
The preamble continues: “Whereas, a municipality has the authority to forbid public demonstrations that might disrupt a school or hospital, it can ban the use

Source: Guns.com

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