Photo ID needed to Buy Drano in Illinois.

Just when I think that the politicians have plumbed the depth of their collective stupidity, they bounce back and prove me too optimistic again.

New Law Requires Photo ID To Buy Drain Cleaner

CHICAGO (CBS) – A new state law requires those who buy drain cleaners and other caustic substances to provide photo identification and sign a log.

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I'll bet the State of Illinois won't require an ID to vote in the next election. If it did, half the voters in Chicago would be disqualified.

Chicago Gun Ban Fails!

One of the goals unintended consequences of gun control is to make it easier for the criminals to kill gun owners. That failed to work as intended in Chicago recently.

As an 80-year-old Army veteran, his wife and great-grandson slept in their Humboldt Park home just before dawn Wednesday, a would-be burglar busted a basement window, crawled over discarded bikes and paint buckets, and made his way up winding stairs to an enclosed porch.

The intruder -- who police said wore stockings over his hands to keep from leaving prints -- wiggled the brass doorknob of the locked door that led to the first-floor apartment, but it didn't open, the family said. He then turned to the oversized glass window of the 80-year-old's bedroom, pulled out his gun and shot, police and family said.

But just as the man got off a second round, the homeowner, who had a handgun of his own, fired a single shot, killing the intruder, a police source said.

"He missed, (but) my daddy didn't," said the 80-year-old's son, Butch Gant, who lives upstairs in the two-flat in the 600 block of North Sawyer Avenue.

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As often happens when the honest citizen is armed, the bad guy was shot and one less thug is free to ply his trade.

Mayor Daley claims he doens't knew if the man will be charged. When

[a]sked about the possibility of charges, the mayor ended a news conference he had called about summer curfew in the city.

"I don't know. Thank you very much," Daley said and stepped away from the microphone.

I'll just bet Hizzoner doesn't know what to do. This is lose/lose. If he lets this slide, his gun ban becomes an even bigger joke that it already is. If he prosecutes then he'll be making it plain that self defense by the honest is de facto illegal in the Duchy of Chicago. In either case, this incident is just more evidence that Daley cannot sustain the illusion he controls the streets and that terrifies him.

Here We Go!

John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford, two of the idiots currently serving as State representatives in Illinois, have asked the Governor to call out the National Guard to deal with the violence in Chicago.

Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago's streets.

Chicago Democrats John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford said they want Quinn, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis to allow guardsmen to patrol streets and help quell violence. Weis said he did not support the idea because the military and police operate under different rules.

They deny they want tanks rolling in the streets but, last time I looked, the National Guard is an extension of the US Army and the army is a "broadsword, not a scalpel". (Major General William Devereaux played by Bruce Willis in "The Siege"). Perhaps that is a small exaggeration but only by a little.

As crime rates in other, freer, jurisdictions have shown, this problem arises whenever people are denied the means of exercising their basic right of self defense. Soon the citizens of Chicago may be seeing this:

Because their duly elected government will not allow then to own and carry this:


This is not such an aberration. The history of the 20th century demonstrated the willingness of those who claim to be the rulers to slaughter those they claim to rule. This is just another example of a governments preferring to use massive force rather than allow the citizens to use reasonable force.

H/T to Denninger

Brown Wins in Illinois

Drudge reports:

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY...
52% SCOTT BROWN (R) 1,153,808
47% MARTHA COAKLEY (D)D: 1,052,391

I suspect more than a few Democrats are relieved over this. Under the current rules, without that 60th vote for cloture, the Republicans can now filibuster the Health Care "reform" bill into extinction. For the current session, anyways. This means that Democrats who know that voting for it will hurt their re-election chances will not have to go on the record as supporting it.