Obama Wants to Take Our Guns, So We Can All Experience The “Peace” Of Chicago

By Jenn Jacques

As Katie Pavlich eloquently points out on The Hill: yes, President Obama does want to take our guns. In part, she writes, “Perhaps Obama’s open politicizing of the issue wasn’t the worst part, but instead it was his intellectual dishonesty when it comes to the “common-sense” gun laws he wants implemented.”

After the shooting on the Umpqua Community College campus last week, Obama took to the airwaves to issue this statement: “We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.”

These “common-sense” and “modest” laws Obama refers to in Britain and Australia Obama refers to aren’t just lines in a law book, but would require extreme confiscation and bans. They also did little to reduce overall homicide rates. Instead, United Kingdom was found to be the most violent country in Europe in 2009. So much for that.

So let’s look closer to home at Obama’s old stomping grounds: Chicago.

In 1982, the city of Chicago instituted a ban on handguns. The ban prohibited civilians from possessing handguns, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms