Why won’t Chicago’s mayor just let citizens defend themselves?
Why won’t Chicago’s citizens just prosecute the city’s mayor for violating their fundamental rights by refusing to “allow” them to defend themselves? Getting them shot and/or killed via the city’s horrible record on crime prevention more than implies a serious liability.
That’s the attitude sleeping America needs to adopt, if for no other reason than to start a rather vigorous pushback against their arrogant masters.
Perhaps a little more palatably, why won’t some of Chicago’s citizens take this violation of their rights to their supreme court? Short circuiting the quite improper militarization of their police while they’re at it.
Think Minority Report, big city boy.
Folks think police prevent crime. No, they apprehend lawbreakers, as in, the law has already been broken. In this case, one presumes the police need this kind of military firepower to take down shooters. They certainly don’t need it, as Owens alludes, to defend anyone.
That responsibility and right falls to the soon-to-be victims, no?
Assault weaponry doesn’t make anyone preemptively safer. it just looks cool, which brings us back to Mr. Mayor’s motives. The nature of power grabs are always more power and we all know how that invariably turns out. This time it’s costing lives.
