Anti-gun Mayor says Supreme Court "in alliance with the gangbangers"

The ripple effect of the DC v Heller ruling is just starting to truly show itself. The next series of law suits have already been filed, and the main target is the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. Once known for having the second most restrictive gun laws in the country, these communities are now number one...uh...without a bullet. These handgun bans are clearly not in compliance with Heller, and mixed reactions are to be expected. While some of the towns and villages are pro-actively repealing their bans in and attempt to stay legal and avoid costly and futile defenses of their bans, others are defining 'reactionary' by lashing out at the judges' decision. What does Tom Barwin, the responsible and upstanding manager of the villiage of Oak Park have to say?

It's just completely befuddling that our Supreme Court would be in alliance with the gangbangers,"

I wonder if Barwin speaks with similar outrage whenever a drug dealer or gangbanger is turned loose on a loophole or a technicality. I wonder if he is incensed every time an arrest is thrown out because of an illegal search. The lesson is that even if one criminal walks, the Constitutional rights of every citizen is protected. The difference in the Heller case is that it was not a gang member or a mafioso that was claiming 2nd amendment protections to avoid a conviction, it was law abiding citizens that wanted the ability to exercise their pre-exisiting rights. This weekend, in an interview with Heller lawyer Alan Gura, the Wall Street Journal shed light on the build up to the case:

Virtually all the decisions that addressed the Second Amendment were styled United States v. Somebody, Somebody' was a crack dealer, a bank robber -- some lowlife who had made a spurious Second Amendment claim as part of a package of desperate appeals. . . We consciously wanted to have plaintiffs from across the demographic spectrum in Washington, D.C. We wanted all manner of diversity, because it's important -- people want to see that you are arguing for a right that is held by ordinary people.

This is what Tom Barwin fails to realize. The people writing him letters and phoning him about wanting to register a gun are not gangbangers - they are regular citizens willing to be fingerprinted and registered (albiet begrudgingly in some cases). If we apply his logic, then the city of Chicago is already "in alliance with the gangbangers." It has passed draconian laws that do little more than prop up the image of a liberal cosmopolitan uptopia. But the paint on the facade is chipping. Chicago's image has become that of a corrupt and dangerous city where the gangs are armed and the people are defenseless. It is time that people like Tom Barwin woke up to that fact and focus their rage on politicians who want to further themselves by destroying our rights.