Who’s to blame when elected officials screw up this badly? The people who elected the officials. Chicago voters filled the ballot boxes and now their Mayor and crew are filling wooden boxes. The Governor of my state, Texas, signed a bill into law in 2007 called the Castle Law which makes it easier to defend yourself and your property with deadly force. There are several large cities in Texas and they are all included in the Castle Law.
Do I feel safer since 2007? You bet. Am I actually safer since 2007? Absolutely. My favorite news reports are when elderly homeowners open fire during home invasions. They didn’t need to wait for the police to show up with assault rifles and I wouldn’t wait either.
No system is perfect, but disarming people while arming a police force with military weapons is illogical. What does the Mayor do when assault rifles don’t work as planned? How about ordering up a few Apache helicopter gunships for those pesky car chases? Why not just deploy M1A1 Abrams tanks as patrol vehicles?
Maybe next time the voters of Chicago will choose more wisely while voting. Until then, they are stuck in the mess they created.
