Daley, Blagojevich on the anti-gun crusade

Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. Rod Blagojevich led an anti-violence march Saturday in Englewood, calling on legislators to ban assault-style weapons in Illinois.

So Daley and the Gov are still dancing in the blood of young kids to promote a policy which has done nothing to lower the crime rate in chicago for 8 years....

One of two children killed this month in the South Side neighborhood was struck in the head by bullet from an AK-47-style rifle converted to fully automatic use.

I would note that by federal law, converting a weapon to be fully automatic is illegal, so it appears that the shooters weren't following the law anyway. How is banning yet another type of weapon going to make them take notice this time?

"It is a very sad comment that we bury another child today," Daley said, about two hours before 10-year-old Siretha White was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Blagojevich said he would again speak to lawmakers who voted against a bill that would ban ownership of assault-style weapons in Illinois.

"These are the weapons of mass destruction and all you have to do is come to Englewood to understand that," Blagojevich said.

Now, having been a US Marine for 6 years, I know that Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons are considered Weapons of Mass Destruction but automatic or semi-automatic firearms are most certainly not unless the laws of reality are different in Illinois.

Illinois is in trouble and the people of chicago had better wake up and see that Daley and Blagojevich are not serving the peoples interests by leaving them defenseless to people who have no intention of following the law, but rather serving their own selfish interests of a no-gun policy which is taking its toll on the people.