Chicago Parents Try To Claim Lack Of Gun Control Violates Civil Rights

By Tom Knighton

I’ve heard a lot of stupid arguments in my day and for a lot of different things, but I doubt very many will match the one a gaggle of Chicago parents is making. You see, they’ve filed a lawsuit. Their claim? Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner hasn’t done enough to stop guns flowing into Chicago.

You see, they’re arguing that this is a violation of children’s civil rights and the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Yes. Really.

From The Trace:

Patrick spoke to reporters during a news conference in downtown Chicago announcing a innovative class-action lawsuit that claims that inaction by Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration to stem the flow of illegal guns into the city infringes on the civil rights of children living there, and violates the American with Disabilities Act.

“We all know that crime guns are flooding into our city and killing our children,” Tom Geoghegan, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, told reporters. “But it’s also destroying – emotionally, psychologically, in the most profound ways – the survivors, the children who are not left dead by this epidemic of violence.”

The lawsuit, which is not seeking any monetary damages, was filed with support from the Clarence Darrow Society, a left-leaning …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms