Another Chicago serf defies Mayor!!

[one-eyed fat man]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-03/news/ct-met-intruder-shooting-0604-20100603_1_charge-2nd-man-handgun-ban-possession

For the second time in a week a Chicago resident has defended his home by shooting an intruding felon with a gun outlawed under Chicago’s 30 year-old ban.

This time it happened after police were chasing Aaron Marshall, 26 for fleeing on foot after a traffic stop where narcotics were dropped. Marshall ran and selected a house to break into and possibly hide. Marshall apparently picked the wrong home in the 300 block of North Pine to invade. An unidentified home owner shot Marshall after he’d broken through a window of that house.

Marshall suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the left side of his body. Marshall's criminal background includes a felony drug conviction in 2009 and a 2007 conviction for felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, court records show. Police say Marshall also is a gang member with a lengthy arrest record.

Of course Mayor Richard M. Daley has done all he can to empower robbers, rapists and killers by keeping law-abiding Chicagoans disarmed through the gun ban. Again we see another example of resistance to mayoral tyranny saving lives.

The Illinois Legislature addressed city gun bans after Hale DeMar shot a home invader in the Gun Free Zone of Wilmette, IL. This makes it nearly impossible for police to charge people violating the gun ban if the gun/s are discovered after a self-defense incident.

ILLINOIS LAW:

(720 ILCS 5/24-10)

Sec. 24-10. Municipal ordinance regulating firearms; affirmative defense to a violation. It is an affirmative defense to a violation of a municipal ordinance that prohibits, regulates, or restricts the private ownership of firearms if the individual who is charged with the violation used the firearm in an act of self-defense or defense of another as defined in Sections 7-1 and 7-2 of this Code when on his or her land or in his or her abode or fixed place of business.

(Source: P.A. 93-1048, eff. 11-16-04.)

[Hoopla Phil]

1. The state needs to stop "playing" and just ban gun bans by cities. n/t

[one-eyed fat man]

Not likely

The problem with Illinois politics has always been "Daley's Dead Democrats" in Chicago skew what happens downstate. Much like New York City skews what happens upstate there. The only difference is Tammany Hall New York machine is defunct while the Daley Dynasty still rules Chicago like it was their personal fiefdom. (The link is satire but it doesn't miss reality by much)

City Of Chicago To Modernize Outdated Graft Programs

[spin]

3. Great satire in the Onion link ...

the best satire is always close to the truth.

[midnight]

2. Complex issue. I'm not for keeping guns in the house, but this incident

surely is one in which this home owner was lucky to have one.

[armueller2001]

4. Where are you

"for" keeping guns if not in the home?

[DonP]

5. "Luck" had nothing to do with it

In both recent Chicago cases it wasn't luck, it was preparation.

The old rule holds true that "the more you prepare, the luckier you seem to get".

In the recent case of the 80 year old Korean war vet, he had already been robbed at gun point and was not going to risk putting himself and his 83 year old wife at the mercy of armed thugs again.

He had to knowingly break the local (and unconstitutional) ban to buy a handgun for his home protection.

No Dirty Harry or vigilante fantasies here, as many gun owners are accused of. He bought it as a "Just in Case" last resort. If he had not, the headline would be very different and Daley would be clamoring that the gun manufacturers are responsible, not the thug.

It's interesting that the push back to Daley is coming from the one voting bloc that has been one of his biggest supporters and now is his biggest electoral threat, the African American majority in Chicago.