The 'Oak Park Citizens Committee for Handgun Control' filed a brief in support of Chicago. This is the group that pushed for the Oak Park handgun ban , after a murder of a Oak Park resident IN CHICAGO, which will also be effected by this case. Apparently they've done nothing else in the last 25 years. The 'Chairman' is a Chicago based lawyer and the contact info for the group is also in Chicago. All signatories are either DC or Chicago based.
My guess? There are no 'volunteer Oak Park residents' of this group anymore. This is just another group pretending to be 'grassroots' while in reality has no such basis.
Their claim that "Since enactment of the ban in 1984, crime has gone down in the community...," is, like most PuSH'er claims, disingenuous at best as their crime rate climbed until the early 90's then started dropping, the same trend as the rest of the nation. No surprise really. Dishonesty seems to be the default for most anti-gun groups.
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I just skimmed the brief and threw up a little bit in my mouth.
They argue that if the handgun ban is lifted, then that will mandate a National uniform standard for the use of a handgun for self defense.
Then a few paragraphs later they say that Oak residents don't need handguns because they can have long guns for self defense.
Where's the National uniform standard for the use of long guns for self-defense?
The only thing I can say is that it is my sincere belief that the antis DON't want the Justices to read the pro-briefs but the pro-gunners DO want the Justices to read the anti-briefs.
If I can catch glaring idiocy on a mere skim, the Men in Black should get a few chuckles themselves as they wade through these rantings.
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