Mayor Rahm Emanuel to Ban Gun Shops from 99.5% of Chicago, Videotape All Sales

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The Daily Sheeple

Back in January, U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang said that it is the government’s duty to protect constitutional rights in a ruling that overturned Chicago’s ban on the sale and transfer of firearms, ordinances that represented some of the toughest gun control laws in America.

Undeterred, now Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing a shiny new ordinance that would use special zoning rules to essentially block gun stores from operating in 99.5% of Chicago and deter any future gun businesses from opening in the scant space left.

Whatever gun shops that might try to remain in the pockets left in the South, North and West sides of town that represent the 0.5% of Chicago where the new zoning rules do not apply would have to follow a bevy of rules to not only open their doors, but to keep them open.

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Down memory lane with Obama

American Thinker

I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated…the whole world looks at America differently. If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country…I understand their point of view….And that will ultimately make us safer.”

—Barack Obama, november 21, 2007

“You know, I actually believe my own bullshit,” Obama told [Richard] Wolffe with a smile.”

I don’t know which is more frightening. That Obama believed his “own bullshit” about Muslims no longer hating the West if he became President—or that voters did.