Gun Control and Criminal Organizations

I was aware of this, but I just saw this article:

Chicago’s handgun ban it one of the strictest in the nation. The ban also has a history that no other handgun ban has. Powerful Chicago Alderman Ed Burke worked with Alderman Fred Roti , a “high ranking made member” of the Chicago Mob, to disarm law abiding citizens. Here’s the setup. Jane Byrne is Mayor of Chicago. The Chicago Tribune has a column written by Robert Davis, titled ” MAYOR’S FORCES WIN HANDGUN CURB FIGHT” page A1 March 20,1982

…Chicago got it’s gun handgun ban. The ordinance allows police officers and Aldermen to own handguns but virtually no one else. That fact that Alderman Roti was a high ranking made member of the Chicago Mob and could own a handgun, but the rest of the population couldn’t shows the twisted mindset of Chicago politicians. Today, in 2009, Alderman Burke has armed body guards paid for by the Chicago taxpayers.

We all know that the Chicago mob had (and in some sense still does) have deep ties with Chicago politics, just like the Boston Mob was also intimately entwined with Boston Politics.

Of course the connected mobsters were all in favor of gun control laws. Another shining example is the New York Sullivan act which requires may-issue licenses for New Yorkers to own defensive weapons. This law was actually NAMED after a gangster.

Now of course the egalitarian Ivory-Tower northerners not only discriminate against lawful people, but even criminal organizations. One could easily note that the Ku Klux Klan was a group that did (and like the Mafia still does, but under a much smaller extent) operate much like the Crime Families to the North.

And we know how those white-sheeted criminals felt about gun control.

And from a previous post we talked about the Nazi party disarming the Jews they eventually attempted to exterminate. A totalitarian government only differs from organized crime in aspects of scale…