Emanuel to unveil new Chicago gun control ordinance

[jpak]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-emanuel-to-unveil-new-chicago-gun-control-ordinance-20130110,0,6664130.story

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today indicated he will put forward his own city gun control ordinance in the next few days after state lawmakers did not reach agreement on the divisive issue.

Emanuel refused to give details about what specifically his proposal will address. But he said he isn't willing to wait until state lawmakers take up gun control. Last month, a federal appeals court tossed out the state's longstanding ban on carrying concealed guns in public. The court gave the state six months to set up new rules.

During his remarks today, Emanuel hit on several of the firearms regulations he has said he would like to see in place at the state level since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut.

"Waiting is not a strong suit of mine," Emanuel said when asked today about the General Assembly's failure to pass a proposed state ban on assault weapons. "First of all, I believe there's, I know there's a majority in the state, an overwhelming majority in the city for a ban on assault weapons, clips, and comprehensive background checks on all sales, wherever they take place, wherever the location may be. And there's also a majority in the legislature."

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[samsingh]

1. kick

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. gawd, I love Rahm. He is so sexy, too

[gejohnston]

3. what is there left to ban in Chicago?

[jody]

4. LEO carrying handguns! nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. can't wait for the new uniforms --

[DonP]

13. Damned if I know!

So called "assault weapons" are already banned.

No magazines over 10 rounds. (including my .22 Marlin Model 60)

No gun shows or gun stores in the city.

No mail order ammunition sales allowed.

All guns must be registered with the police.

Illinois already requires all sales go through an FFL with a background check.

And we still had 508 killed last year and 19 killed so far this year.

With the McDonald decision less than 2 years old, there's no way he can introduce a complete ban again.

I guess what he can do is write more big ass checks to the NRA, ISRA and SAF.

But I do note that he is not giving up his armed 24/7 security for himself or his family at their school to set an example.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Probably replacing union teachers with armed non-union teachers nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. 3rd way Manny in GC&RKBA. what an honor, sir!

[Clames]

7. Rahm just loves writing large checks to support the 2A.

About the only thing he does well...

[Skyline]

9. Chicago has some of the strictest

Gun laws in the US yet also leads in gun violence, how will passing more gun laws help to fix that?

[hunter]

10. Criminals wanting guns will have to drive further?

Armed guys selling drugs and pimping women usually have cars, you know.

Most of the USA is a fucking supermarket of weapons.

[gejohnston]

12. yeah I'm sure they have current FOIDs

and register their guns.

[hunter]

14. Some do. Or they buy or steal guns from those who do.

In my part of the country owning a gun increases the odds someone will break into your house. That's the only thing most people have worth stealing. The gangs have Xboxes and new televisions. They buy them at Best Buy like the rest of us. But if the gangs know you have guns they'll wait until you go to work, crack open your garage door, drive a truck or van in, close the door, take your guns, gun safe and all, and drive away when no one is looking. Or maybe some fourteen year old will crawl through your bathroom window and take the gun you keep in your nightstand..

We don't have gun stores here because selling guns is too dangerous. WalMart doesn't sell guns because too many guns they lost or sold ended up in the hands of gangsters.

Most of the guns on the street, held by criminals, were purchased legally at some point.

The USA needs an aggressive program to get guns out of the hands of fools and criminals.

[gejohnston]

15. and the neighbors don't call the cops?

I'm guessing there isn't much in the way of neighborhood watch there.

[hunter]

16. We have a "neighborhood watch" signs and all that. I don't go to meetings.

Some of my neighbors are weird, or maybe I'm the weird one.

My favorite weird neighbor has surveillance cameras all over his house. He probably has guns too. He freaked out one day when the neighbor across the street shot her boyfriend in the leg. I went outside and all I saw was her naked boyfriend with his bloody leg hiding behind a fire truck with the police and fire fighters. I couldn't leave to meet with a client because the street was blocked. It took the police more than an hour to talk angry girlfriend out of her house. Two days later our weird neighbor put up his cameras. Girlfriend and boyfriend moved away shortly after that, I hope not together.

Our street is pretty safe. I work at home and look out the window often. I've also got a few neighbors who are law enforcement and military who don't work ordinary hours. They keep an eye out too.

Neighborhood kids see me out gardening or working on my cars. We talk. I know some of them belong to gangs or are associated with gangs, but so do the police.

I still get a lot of gang graffiti on my back wall because I can't go out every time I hear the dogs bark. Sometimes the dogs are just barking at the police sirens, or maybe raccoons or possums, or maybe nothing.

City crews paint over the graffiti every couple of months, but sometimes it gets bad before they come around so I do it. I once had some gang kids who were probably armed challenge me for that. But I assumed my urban teacher persona (very hard won in Los Angeles) and we all shrugged it off. It's just paint.

I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made anything better and I've been in some pretty rough situations, some involving gunfire.

[gejohnston]

17. Cool thing about living in the sticks

Although I did live in an inner city for a couple of years during my time serving the Empire. I grew up in a small town and now live in kind of the sticks. My wife, being from Detroit and Tampa Bay, thinks it way out in the country. Since I'm either in Mayberry, a campus, or the sticks, the only time I carry a gun is going to the range or when I'm sticking it to the factory farm system.

[iiibbb]

11. I'm surprised Chicago has any rights left to take.

[rl6214]

18. Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh

What's he going to do, issue an executive order or a royal decree?