USA Today Article Presents Both Sides of Chicago Gun Debate

In a rather surprisingly unbiased piece, USA Today tackled the issue of the gun debate currently raging in Chicago, offering voices from both sides. There were however a few choice passages that show just how out of touch the anti-gun crowd has gotten:

The Chicago School Board, backing the city, counters: “We tolerate few restrictions on the right to free speech because of its salutary effects, and because ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me,’ as the children’s rhyme goes. Guns, on the other hand, will kill you.”

Yes, Chicago School Board, guns can kill you. That’s the point – and if you read the article 76-year-old Otis McDonald says he wants a handgun because he is fearful of the gangs and drug dealers in his neighborhood. Those young thugs likely are armed better than soldiers in some third-world national armies, but listen to the anti-firearm zealots and somehow keeping law-abiding citizens from owning what the Constitution guarantees will somehow make the streets less safe! We hope the Chicago ban on handguns is overturned so that Mr. McDonald can sleep a big better knowing that he can protect his wife and his home.