The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
In a blistering counterpunch, a leading pro-gun advocate Friday called Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s racially loaded attack on the National Rifle Association as “too nutty to dignify with a response” and denigrated the city’s new police chief as a “political hack.”
Federal gun laws pushed by the National Rifle Association amount to “government-sponsored racism” because they help channel weapons into inner-city areas that then get used to kill “black and brown children,” McCarthy told parishioners at St. Sabina Church earlier this month in statements that were aired broadly for the first time this week.
“As much as we wouldn’t expect to hear McCarthy speak in opposition to gun control, it is equally certain that few of us were prepared to hear what actually came from McCarthy’s mouth when he spoke to the St. Sabina’s congregation,” said Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association.
There's more:
“But, then again, any suggestion that McCarthy is a law-enforcement officer is a sham. Rather, McCarthy is merely another in a long line of political hacks who have resided in the office of police superintendant,” Pearson said. “McCarthy’s job description has nothing to do with law-enforcement and everything to do with enforcing the political agenda of his boss, Rahm Emanuel.”
Since McCarthy seems historically ignorant, here's a
link to the racist roots of gun control. Does McCarthy know that Chicago's former
Chief of Detectives was the Mob's long term plant on the force? Would you feel safe with only police officers owning handguns when a city is run by
organized crime?
