The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) has come out swinging prior to President Obama's visit to Chicago. According to ISRA, law-abiding Illinois firearm owners can expect to take it on the chin Friday as Obama brings his gun control road show to the windy city. Obama will be in town to plead for an end to Chicago's record wave of violent crime. In reality, says ISRA, Obama will settle in to the friendly confines of Hyde Park to deliver an ultimatum to lawful firearm owners – "give up your guns or else."
The Association warns that in making his pitch, Obama will employ all sorts of half-truths and flowery euphemisms to push his case for domestic disarmament. For example, when Obama talks about "gun safety" he really means "gun bans." When speaking of "weapons of war," Obama will be talking about 85% of the firearms in Illinoisans' gun safes. And in Obama's book, "responsible gun owners" are those who will "dutifully march down to the local police station to surrender their firearms," says ISRA.
Interestingly, police reports show that about 88% of Chicago's murderers are previous offenders, and only about 30% of Chicago's murder cases ever result in a conviction. In fact, the recent, headline-grabbing murder of a Chicago teen came at the hands of a pair of gangbangers who have persistently slipped through the fingers of the Illinois justice system.
ISRA warns that Obama's Friday message "will be the divisive assertion that free exercise of the 2nd Amendment by suburbanites is the root of Chicago's problems with violent crime."
According to ISRA, rather than attacking firearm owners this Friday, Obama needs to be "telling Judges to start locking up violent criminals rather then releasing them to our streets." In addition, they recommend Obama "tell teachers to spend less time counting their days until retirement and more time teaching their students to count to ten." And, to ISRA, "Obama needs to admonish parents to act like parents rather than acting like 'BFFs.'"
The rifle association is recommending that Obama pull a page from his own playbook. Said, ISRA, "When GM was about to fail, Obama basically fired the CEO of GM. What Obama needs to do Friday is to pull Mayor Emanuel aside and tell him to replace Chicago Police Chief McCarthy with someone competent enough to handle the job."
