Porky Panders

Another one of our old acquaintances is still out there, fighting the good fight against Fatass:

• With Illinois’ gun and magazine ban being challenged in a case expected to go to the U.S. Supreme Court, Gov. J.B. Pritzker says there needs to be a federal ban. On the one-year anniversary of the Independence Day parade shooting in Highland Park Tuesday, Pritzker said there needs to be more gun control.

  “We’ve banned assault weapons. We’ve banned high capacity magazines. We’ve banned switches that turn regular guns into automatic weapons and here in Illinois those are things that will keep people safe and alive, but we need a national ban,” Pritzker said.

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  Todd Vandermyde, who’s consulting plaintiffs in the challenge to Illinois’ ban, said more gun control won’t make the streets safer. He said the governor’s other policies are “an abject failure. They don’t go after the criminals. ‘Oh no, we’re going to give them electric home monitoring. Oh no, we’re going to let them go out for 48 hours. Oh no, we’re not going to require cash bail,’” Vandermyde told The Center Square, referring to the state's latest changes to the criminal justice system.

  Just in Chicago, violent crime has risen 86% over the past two years, and 56% over the past four.

The likelihood of a federal ban is somewhat thinner than the governor. A helluva lot thinner. Even the current administration won't float that test balloon. They'll talk about it all day, but serious efforts are pipe dreams.