John Kass on the Chicago gun ban being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. In its wisdom, the U.S. Supreme Court finally took up Chicago's ridiculous 27-year-old handgun ban on Tuesday.
Why is it ridiculous? Because only three classes of people are comfortable with handguns in the anti-handgun city:
Cops, criminals and the politically connected.
Mayor Richard Daley sure is upset that the ban might be overturned. But he probably has more armed guards protecting him than the president of Venezuela.
Chicago aldermen are allowed to carry handguns. I wanted to ask the chairman of the City Council's police committee about those gun-toting aldermen. But there was no chairman. The last one just resigned after pleading guilty to federal bribery charges, so he wasn't around.
Make sure to watch his video on "King Rudy and the gun ban". Crowd heckles Blagojevich at ethics speech is a good read.
OTHER NEWS FROM THE CHICAGO MACHINE
WHY BLAGOJEVICH ISN'T AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.
The Illinois State Treasurer, Alexi Giannoulias, is under fire for what some see as risky loans when he was chief loan officer for his family’s now-struggling, soon-to-collapse Broadway Bank.
Also, Giannoulias denied having any role in getting his former campaign policy director in 2006, Brent Adams, his current post as Acting Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation for the state of Illinois, which would have jurisdiction over Broadway Bank.You really should read about the bank's brokered deposits.
Giannoulias is the Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate.
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