Dart's Fantasy Land

Seldom has a politician laid his complete and utter detachment from reality out there were everyone can see it, but Dart doesn't disappoint. He saw the need for a completely out-of-touch and ignorant politician to say something completely stupid and he nailed it:

• Sheriff Tom Dart said Sunday that he is proposing a concealed-carry gun ordinance to keep Cook County from becoming the “Wild West.”

Really? Because we kind of figured after last year, it already was. And continues to be as 2013 matches 2011 almost homicide for homicide.

• Dart said he’s worried about a stalemate in the General Assembly on a law to license people to carry concealed guns. If legislators don’t meet a June 9 court deadline to pass such a law, anyone with a state firearm owner’s identification card could legally walk anywhere in public with a concealed weapon, Dart said.

Well thank goodness we got that out of the way.  We were wondering what the ramifications might be if nothing got passed and here's Dart giving everyone with an FOID permission to carry concealed. Thanks Tom. We're sure the lawyers at Corp Counsel are going to be in meetings tomorrow along with Rahm trying to "walk-back" your statement. That means a whole bunch of bad decisions, overturned by the Courts and probably a bunch of tax money going to pay Second Amendment groups again.

• “We would have the Wild West,” he said. “There would be no regulation.”

What a stupid statement. We don't see any of this happening in any of the other 49 states with some form of Concealed Carry and Illinois has the strictest gun laws in the nation. What is it about Illinois politicians who assume everyone who lives here is an asshole with no self control, no conflict resolution skills and no sense of responsibility? If he limited that description to the south and west sides of Chicago, we'd understand. But he just sounds like a complete dumbass here.

• Dart’s ordinance would give him the power to approve and reject licenses to carry concealed guns in Cook County. Applicants would have to pay a $300 fee for a license.

Ah, Mein Führer, we had wondered where you had gotten to. He proposes a law that would give him the power to decide whether or not you are able to defend yourself and your home from criminals....criminals who have shown no inclination to abide by the rules of society in any case. Makes perfect sense! And charging $300 for a Right guaranteed by the Constitution? Ain't liberalism grand?

• Dart said he thinks the ordinance would apply not only to Cook County suburbs, but also to the city of Chicago in the absence of a state law governing concealed carrying of guns.
  
  Chicago Police spokesman Adam Collins said: “If a statewide law is not passed, the city is preparing to implement a comprehensive concealed-carry ordinance to ensure that guns stay out of the hands of criminals.”

Gee Mr. Collins, who are you taking your cues from? Presumably, you see how well Chicago's anti-gun laws are keeping guns from the hands of criminals. We think 010 Tact killed one yesterday. 16 years old, wasn't he? But a record a mile long and shooting up North Lawndale in broad daylight. We don't know you Officer, but you're obviously a tool of the highest order.

• The NRA and other gun-rights advocates would like to see legislation that authorizes concealed-carry licenses for anyone who undergoes the necessary training and passes a background check. Those are commonly called “shall issue” licenses.
  
  But Dart and other gun-control activists want to retain more control over who gets the licenses and where gun owners can carry their weapons in public. Those are called “may issue” licenses.
  
  Under Dart’s proposed “may issue” ordinance, he would grant licenses only to people who demonstrate a need to carry a firearm for protection.
  
  Dart said he recently spoke to elderly people in the south suburbs. They complained that the police were unresponsive. Some said they were regularly burglarized while they attended church.
  
  “It’s a matter of timing,” Dart said, noting that those people could have become homicide victims if they came home during a burglary.

The first honest statement in the article - "retain more control." Gun Control is about people control, not guns. You already see how well they're keeping guns off the street. Now imagine a government bureaucracy, not just any bureaucracy, but one run by Cook County. Sharon Dixon gets a gun but your wife riding the El overnight doesn't. Farakhan's son gets a gun, but a nurse making house calls in the ghetto doesn't. Some political contributor gets a gun, but your parents who have watched their neighborhood change into a shithole can't even take the garbage out because of the gangs confronting them in their own alley.

Dart is a nanny-state asshole, purporting to know better than you do about your circumstances dictating where and how you will be allowed to defend yourself should the need ever arise. But he's part and parcel of the same system that throws up paper roadblocks in front of criminals and lets Anita and Toni empty out his jail of hardcore felons.

UPDATE: Collins isn't an officer evidently, he's a hack from the Obama campaign sent here to do Rahm's bidding.