Here's why Chicago needs tighter gun controls, according to esteemed public policy analyst and Democratic Chicago Alderman Richard Mell: gang members get money from drug sales, spend some of the proceeds on guns, and sometimes kill innocent bystanders during their shooting wars.

More often they kill each other, which is a fairly efficient form of social justice. But having lived in Chicago for many years, I can say that nonetheless, armed self-protection is a very reasonable priority for law-abiding citizens.

Mell's comments came before the Council approved an advisory measure supporting state legislation to ratchet up gun controls.

Alderman Mell's son-in-law is Illinois' Democratic Governor, Rod Blagojevich. And as it happens, the Gov. believes in legal, armed self-defense.

Mell mentioned billions of dollars being spent in Afghanistan, Iraq and on Mars but did not mention...Gov. Blagojevich's support for a bill to lower from 21 to 18 the age a state resident can obtain a gun permit without parental support.

Was he sending a message to his son-in-law with his speech?

'No, no, no, no,' Mell said. "I didn't even read the (city council) resolution. I just thought it was about the assault weapons ban."

And this guy is considered a major player.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at April 1, 2004 03:18 PM

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