New information suggests that Mayor Bloomberg and his personally-funded Mayors Against Illegal Guns national gun control organization have teamed up with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and are indeed the people behind the new proposal in Illinois to slap anyone with a gun with a 3-year mandatory minimum prison sentence. Under this new proposal, people like Scotty Pippen and State Senator Donnie Trotter, both caught in recent years carrying firearms for personal defense, would be sent to the Illinois Department of Corrections for three years, minimum, to serve their sentences. This is in a state where nearly a third of gang-bangers in Chicago get as little as three or four months of “boot camp” for carrying a gun as a felon – and two even got probation – after Quinn signed a law in December 2009 mandating three to eight years in prison for gang bangers with guns . . .
Chicago politicians have raised concerns that the new law is nothing but a proposal to lock up more “black and brown” people. This is potentially the end result, and it would be in the case of Pippen, Trotter and the 17-year-old college prep student Darnall Hamilton recently arrested for carrying a gun to school to defend himself against violent gang-bangers none to pleased by his refusal to join their gangs. Hamilton was a straight-A student on track to go to a four-year college. He had zero disciplinary problems in his school career. And now Bloomberg’s minions want to throw him in prison for three years and ruin a promising young man’s life.
We’re not just concerned about black and brown people, but for all law-abiding individuals who may be caught up in Bloomberg’s new dragnet. Take Edward Hambrick, a man from South Dakota working in Chicago. Hambrick had a FOID card and a South Dakota carry permit when he informed an officer that he was carrying during a traffic stop as a courtesy. He was arrested and spent fourteen months in Cook County jail, refusing to take a felony plea-bargain.
He has since been released after a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Aguilar that Illinois’ prohibition on firearm possession outside the four-corners of your home was unconstitutional. The Emanuel/Bloomberg proposal, though, would see Mr. Hambrick, and people like him, imprisoned for three years, minimum. Oh yeah, Mr. Hambrick is black too, not that it matters.
The nanny-state Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a direct tie to the Emanuel administration in Chicago and to add insult to injury, she’s paid for by our tax dollars – $150,000 per year! Janey Rountree was Mayor Bloomberg’s Firearms Policy Coordinator before sliding over to work for the Emanuel administration as Rahm’s Deputy Chief of Public Safety. She was also Bloomberg’s Coalition Coordinator at Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
And we’re paying her $150,000 a year for her advocacy work against our Second Amendment rights.
Let’s not forget that Mayor Rahm brought in Garry McCarthy as his new police chief. Yes, the inept, hard-drinking Garry McCarthy was a top official in the NYPD. Of course, he had a scandal or two in his day, but who doesn’t shoot out street lights while drunk and shouting racial epithets at nearby residents when they come out to see what’s going on? Or get arrested while acting like a jerk to police officers issuing his daughter a ticket in an adjacent state?
Don’t take our word for it regarding the Emanuel/Bloomberg connection. Earlier this year, Michael Sneed at the Sun-Times wrapped it up and put a nice bow on it for us:
Cop shop III . . .
Bang! Bang!
New York/New York . . . Sneed hears Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, the bulldog from the Bronx, will now be dealing with another New Yawker hired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel as his new liaison with the Chicago Police Department: Janey Rountree, the gun-control point person for New York MayorMichael Bloomberg, is Rahm’s new deputy chief of staff.
Even before she came to Chicago, Rountree was working for Bloomberg, meddling advocating in other states.
(RedState) – In 2011, “Firearms Policy Coordinator” Janey Rountree worked from Mayor Bloomberg’s office to help a MAIG employee in the Columbus, Ohio mayor’s office with a campaign to block a bill expanding Ohioans’ concealed carry rights.
It doesn’t stop there. Illinois’ “3-year mandatory minimum” proposal, embodied in HB2265 / SB1342 is modeled on New York State’s Draconian law mandating 3 1/2 years in prison for unlawfully carrying a handgun. This is the law that saw NFL star Plaxico Burress sent to prison for 2 1/2 years for carrying a handgun in the Big Apple. Burress was not a bad boy playing in the NFL. He had a Florida carry permit that had recently expired at the time of his arrest for carrying a gun for self-defense in New York City.
Of course Bloomberg publicly insisted Burress be prosecuted to the fullest extent because anything less would be a “mockery of the law.” In short, this new proposal from Senator Zalewski has Bloomberg’s fingerprints all over it.
Bloomberg, having been told by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to stay out of that state (as Bloomberg’s interference has cost Hickenlooper two Democrat senators their seats through recall elections and a third Democrat senator is now facing recall), has apparently decided to set his sights on Illinois. And this isn’t the first time. He spent roughly two million dollars to elect Robyn Kelly earlier this year.
It would seem he’s back. There’s more we’re working on a mountain of additional documents and information we’re sorting through. Stay tuned.
John Boch is president of Guns Save Life where this story originally appeared. A version of this post originally appeared at gunssavelife.com.
As a RI resident of Cranston. I hope our friends in Exeter have a huge success with this recall. The whole state both anti amendment and pro second amendment folks are watching this with great interest. I hope Mr. Edwards get’s the word out, but he can’t count on the main stream media here in the Ocean State to be sympathetic to his cause.
I would like to see Bloomer in Leavenworth for about 30 years cracking rock in the sun 10 hrs a day 7 days a week. It would be on grounds of civil rights violations, election tampering, etc.
Ever since that guy ate the face off that old man in Miami we have reason to fear erratic strangers in public. Your large friend would be no match for someone juiced up on drugs and feeling no pain. A hole in the right place will drop blood pressure and end the assault.
This is my shocked face .__.
As I was reading the first paragraph of this article, something incredibly profound occurred to me. I can now explain in one simple, succinct sentence why gun control will never, ever work, no matter what the civilian disarmament proponents do:
No one cares if prison is the trade-off for carrying a firearm and saving your life.
If a man’s choice is to die at the hands of an attacker or spend three years in prison, that man will choose prison every time without any hesitation. If a woman is facing a brutal rape or violent death versus prison, she will choose prison every time. More importantly, there is a pretty good chance that a man or woman will never be caught with a concealed firearm and never face prison time anyway.
Stuffed for safety reasons? Oh wait, that was the Buffalo.
Austin area. Check.
870. Negative. Mossy 500 Thunder Ranch. Would gladly help if I could.
Because surrender is never an option!
You write very well
In Austin: 870 Police Magnum. Contact me. Watermelons? Have you been channeling The Gunny?
I don’t have a dead pig, but I can ship you a couple of pounds of slab bacon. And a dozen eggs.
He may be a vaguely Jabba-esque trash vendor who treats objects like women and talks like he’s gargling cat litter, but I can’t really blame the guy for wanting Franklin to suffer. I mean, if you value the use of your legs and then some dude cripples them, you can at least train really hard and roll a marathon; maybe even get an inspirational movie out of the deal. But if your whole empire was created for the goal of arousing Mr. Happy and then some guy disables your dong, sh*t; I’d want to snip a few wires in that guy’s crotch, too.
Tell you what, marine, I’m going to make one more stab at this, then I’m done.
You say I’m a “void”? I would maintain that I am, in point of fact, a kind and loving husband, a trustworthy friend, a capable musician, a scholar, and according to my friends, an all around pretty good guy.
My morals and principles are born out of a love, understanding and respect for my fellow man (and woman, and child, and animal), and I can’t see where accepting some myths created thousands of years ago by Bronze Age shepherds without question is a better way to arrive at a moral compass.
Do you only behave honorably because you fear the big guy’s wrath? That’s a pretty weak anchor for a meaningful life, if you ask me. Where would you be if you had been born into a non-religious family? Do you really believe that anyone who doesn’t share your faith is somehow doomed? What nonsense!
And , to repeat one last time, your very statements prove my point. You seem to believe that human beings who do not believe in your god or bible (a blood soaked horror of a book) are of no worth, not to be trusted or believed – certainly not worthy of equal respect. In fact, you imply that people like me are a danger to society. It’s not too long a leap from that kind of attitude to the cattle cars and the gas chambers. You, sir, and your ilk, are the danger.
Can you even articulate a reason for your opinion that someone who does not share your “faith” would find comprehensible?
I personally believe that humanity will never arrive at true peace and justice until we throw off the burden of ten thousand years of lies represented by religion.