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Chicago Police Chief: Time to trade the war on drugs for a war on guns
09-06-2014, 08:49 PM,
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Chicago Police Chief: Time to trade the war on drugs for a war on guns
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Garry McCarthy has identified the enemy, and it is all the politicians who won't pass tougher gun laws.
"At the end of the day what we've got here in Chicago is too many guns coming in and not enough punishment going out," the police superintendent said in a speech to the City Club on Wednesday.

It might sound familiar, because McCarthy has said it before. Then again, McCarthy has said a lot of things before.

When he first appeared before the City Council three years ago, McCarthy criticized the use of guns as a political wedge issue. "My goal is to bring the gun debate back to the center," McCarthy said at the time. "I think that we have abolitionists on one side and I think that we have NRA and those kind of folks on the other side, and frankly it's too polarizing a debate, and 95 percent of the country is somewhere in between."

Read more at http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/arc...ar-on-guns

H/T http://LincolnReport.com
"At the end of the day what we've got here in Chicago is too many guns coming in and not enough punishment going out," the police superintendent said in a speech to the City Club on Wednesday.

It might sound familiar, because McCarthy has said it before. Then again, McCarthy has said a lot of things before.

When he first appeared before the City Council three years ago, McCarthy criticized the use of guns as a political wedge issue. "My goal is to bring the gun debate back to the center," McCarthy said at the time. "I think that we have abolitionists on one side and I think that we have NRA and those kind of folks on the other side, and frankly it's too polarizing a debate, and 95 percent of the country is somewhere in between."

Read more at http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/arc...ar-on-guns

H/T http://LincolnReport.com
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