Despite Gun Control — Chicago is #1…

You’re sound asleep
when you hear
a thump outside your
bedroom door.

Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed
with fear, you hear muffled whispers.

At least two people have broken into
your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach
down beside your bed and pick up your
shotgun.

You rack a shell into the chamber,
then inch toward the door and open it…

In the darkness, you make out
two shadows.

One holds something that looks like
a crowbar.

When the intruder brandishes it as
if to strike, you raise the shotgun and
fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to
the floor.

One writhes and screams while the
second man crawls to the front door

and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call
police, you know you’re in trouble.

In your country, most guns were
outlawed years before,

and the few that
are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to
make them useless..

Yours was never
registered.

Police arrive and
inform you

that the second burglar has
died.

They arrest you for First Degree
Murder

and Illegal Possession of a
Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he
tells you not to worry:

authorities will
probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

“What kind of sentence will I get?”
you ask.

“Only
ten-to-twelve years,”

he replies, as if that’s
nothing.

“Behave yourself, and you’ll be out
in seven.”

The next day, the shooting is
the lead

story in the local
newspaper.

Somehow, you’re portrayed as an
eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are
represented as choirboys.

Their friends and
relatives can’t find an unkind word to say about
them..

Buried deep down in the article,
authorities acknowledge that both “victims” have been
arrested numerous times.

But the next day’s headline says
it all:

“Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to
Die.”

The thieves have been transformed
from career criminals into Robin Hood-type
pranksters..

As the days wear on, the story
takes wings.

The national media picks it
up,

then the international
media.

The surviving
burglar has become a folk
hero.

Your attorney says the thief is
preparing to sue you, and he’ll probably
win.

The media publishes reports that
your home has been burglarized several times in the past
and

that you’ve
been critical of local police for their lack

of effort in apprehending the
suspects.

After the last break-in, you told
your neighbor that you would be prepared next
time.

The District
Attorney uses this to allege

that you were lying in wait for the
burglars.

A few months later, you go to
trial.

The charges haven’t been
reduced,

as your lawyer had so
confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger
at

the injustice of it all works
against you..

Prosecutors paint a picture of
you

as a mean, vengeful
man.

It doesn’t take long for the jury to
convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life
in prison.

This case really
happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of
Emneth, Norfolk , England, killed one burglar and wounded
a second.

In April, 2000, he
was convicted and is now serving a life
term..

How did it become a crime to defend
one’s own life in the once great British Empire
?

It started
with the Pistols Act of 1903.

This seemingly reasonable law
forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and

established that
handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a
license.

I saw an article earlier by Ann Coulter, that quoted a study done by a couple professors, one from University of Chicago, the other from Yale. They concluded that the best way to reduce gun violence is an expansion of conceal-carry laws, NOT gun bans! They weren’t advocating armed guards, but armed CITIZENS. US.

If the citizens are unarmed, it just sets up a carnival gallery for the criminals. The criminals don’t give a rat what the gun laws are; they’re gonna be armed. (Look up on Fox News the video spoof about “gun free zones” – you will laugh! The poor armed criminal can’t get ANYTHING cuz he keeps winding up in “gun free zones”, and can’t use his gun to rob people!)

Pauline, I grew up in Logan Square, north of the Loop. For years and then some, we gang-banged with our fists, a few belts wrapped around our hands, a few 2 x 4′s that we swung with abandon, and even managed some small arms as we got older. But, to my knowledge, no one ever shot another in a rumble or clubbed a rival to death–we just scared the rival gang members, and we, ourselves got scared, did a little clubbing and split back to the “Hood.” Attitudes change, and now there are plenty of shootings in rumbles, but largely go unreported. Still, IT IS THE SHOOTER WHO KILLS, not the hunter who goes up to Wisconsin and bags some game. There is a difference in people’s hearts when they intentionally KILL others–it is an attitude which makes cities like Chi-town become so violent. Guns are not the “PROBLEM.” People ARE the problem. Then, what is the solution? 1. Enact strict gun control and confiscate weapons? I do not think so. People who are law abiding do not wish to be easily shot, and perhaps killed by deranged people. They need to be vigilant, keep their guns, and protect each other as our 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for or, shoot the perpetrators who stalk innocent people in our society. Go CUBS 2013!