But the Trib is on the streets with a fairly straightforward report of McDonald. Deliciously, it reports Justice Alito's reference to legislative calls for the National Guard to be summoned to fight Chicago criminals since Daley's mob has obviously failed. The paper also notes Alito's reference to the number of Chicago homicides this year which just happen to equal the number of American military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan for the same period. Then:
"If (the) safety of . . . law abiding members of the community would be enhanced by the possession of handguns in the home for self-defense, then the Second Amendment right protects the rights of minorities and other residents of high-crime areas whose needs are not being met by elected public officials, (Alito wrote.) "
This is beginning to sound like a mirror image of Arizona and Fremont, Nebraska.
They took local action against crime because the federal government couldn't or wouldn't do its job. In McDonald, the federal judiciary justified federal action -- however indirect -- against local crime because Chicago politicians had buggered the job. I know the parallel is strained, but the irony makes it worthwhile.
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*As a matter of reality, the ban applied exclusively to Daley's law-abiding subjects.
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