Earlier this year, we were treated to the sight of a prominent Chicago politician dressing down the Supreme Court as several of its members sat, like chastened third graders, in the well of the House of Representatives.
Within hours of the Supreme Court's decision today nullifying Chicago's gun ban as a violation of a fundamental right reserved to law-abiding citizens under the Constitution, another Chicago politician gave the city's response :
As expected, Mayor Daley and Chicago's City Council are circling the wagons to defend against an unfavorable decision by the Supreme Court concerning the city's gun ban.
Daley said the city would have in place a new ordinance aimed at making it difficult to purchase and own a gun in Chicago.
"We'll publicly propose a new ordinance very soon," Daley said at an afternoon press conference concerning the gun ban.
"As a city we must continue to stand up ..and fight for a ban on assault weapons .. as well as a crackdown on gun shops," Daley said. "We are a country of laws not a nation of guns."
Like his father, Chicago's current Mayor Daley seemingly has no sense of irony. The quotation he's mimicking is that we're "a nation of laws, not of men." Which I guess is true, except if you're Mr. Daley. Then we're a nation of defiance, not of law.
Isn't this Blago's hometown, too?
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