Gov Blago and 'common sense', say what?

There is an article in a rag called 'finalcall', written by Richard Muhammad where he continues to blather on about banning assault weapons while dancing in the blood of two dead little girls out of Englewood Illinois.

As a second mother prepared to bury a daughter hit by a stray bullet in the Englewood neighborhood, the mayor and governor repeated demands that assault weapons should be banned in the state.

Yeah, I forgot to add Blago's puppet master, Mayor Daley. He's the main one pulling the strings on this, but we already knew that. Last month, the mayor demanded that the 1.5 million down state illinoisans appear before him and explain to him why their weapons should not be banned. Well, some members of the Illinois coalition of responsible gun owners took mayor daley up on his demand, only to be turned away so apparently the mayor wasn't all that serious.

“It is difficult to explain, explicable to understand, how two young children going about their lives—one at a birthday party, the other about to go to school—in their homes, safe presumably, and then both be victims of gun violence,” said Governor Rod Blagojevich

Here is your first clue Governor, you are doing a lousy job of fighting crime and criminals. You've still got the inane notion that simply banning a tool will wipe out crime. Take a lesson from D.C. and your own chicago. Banning guns isn't working and neither is blaming 'lax' gun laws in Indiana.

It will be an uphill battle to pass a “common sense” law that would make assault weapons illegal, the governor complained. “These are weapons of mass destruction,” said Gov. Blagojevichwho blasted lawmakers that would “rather do the bidding of the gun lobby than protect neighborhoods like Englewood. No law-abiding citizen needs a semi-automatic assault weapon.”

Not only does it appear that Mayor Daley is delusional, but so is the governor. Making assault weapons (read that as 'scary looking') illegal is not going to stop crime in chicago nor does it even remotely sound like 'common sense'. An assault weapon is not a WMD, just ask President Bush. You say no law-abiding citizen needs a semi-automatic assault weapon but perhaps you've forgotten the Los Angelas riots and pictures of shop owners on top of their stores, defending their property from rioters and looters with assault weapons?

“There is no excuse, no excuse, for anyone to sell dope to any child in any community. There is no excuse for anyone to take a gun and point it at a child or at a home in any community,” said Mayor Richard Daley

I hate giving this guy any credit, but at least he got part of that right. There is no excuse, so long as that child isn't pointing a gun at you in the first place, which happens far too often in chicago. So what 'common sense' are you going to use to stop that one Mayor?

My guess is 'not much'. The Mayor and Governor are less interested in fighting the actual criminals than they are in making the people of Illinois defenseless little subjects. Time to make a change Illinois people, get rid of Mayor Daley and Governor Blagojevich....send them packing this election.