“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

Well, the activist Right-wing “Gang of Five” in control of our Supreme Court, led by that tower of uberconservatism John Roberts, continues its insurgency against sense, sensibility, and all who comprise regular American citizenry.

Whenever convenient, these nabobs toss the concepts of “state’s rights” and “local mores” out with the bath water… along with anything else even remotely resembling rational thought.

It has become painfully apparent that nary a one is capable of comprehending even the most simple, logical and obvious examples of the written word.

This gross defect in their collective make-up becomes increasingly evident with each new decision; so far, the Roberts’ Court has a near-perfect record of ruling on the side of either big business or Conservative extremism, both of which are generally joined at the hip.

In decision after decision, these five mountebanks have head-butted Middle America silly and thrown us to the wolves.

The latest salvo was the trashing of Chicago’s longstanding ban on handguns – a law that stood for 30 years, upended because of a suit brought about by one solitary paranoid old man.

The idiocy of his suit in the first place was that the guy already owned long guns; he just wanted to have a handgun.

In a clear-cut case of stupidity run amok, any erstwhile “law abiding” Chicago resident (or anyone in any municipality anywhere) may now keep a handgun in his or her home.

The reasoning behind this paranoia to own a pistol is that the “gangbangers all carry with no restrictions whatsoever”.

This is the blatantly moronic whine of racists who resent our “Negro President”, and fear young “Negroes” who commit crimes against other African American citizens.

(Okay, so the geezer who brought forth the suit is himself Black.  It doesn’t take a law degree to realize, however, that the NRA sponsored this man’s litigation all the way to the Supremes because of his race and age.)

That said, anyone who knows anything about Chicago (of which the “Gang of Five” is wholly ignorant), or pretty much any other major U.S. city, knows that gangbangers tend to operate only within their own ‘hoods.  It is rare for them to venture into areas where they are more “noticeable” and cannot function under the aegis of fear, i.e. predominantly white neighborhoods, or those controlled by gangs other than their own.

Hell, the typical gangbanger is a frightened little putz who, when taken out of his own “comfort zone”, will wilt like the proverbial wallflower at a junior high school dance.

Hence, the “gangbangers” of whom the paranoid gutless gun-crazies are so frightened almost never commit crimes against “stable” white folks.

Meanwhile, the penile-challenged gun-crazies fail to realize is the damage that a bullet can do.  The majority of them were most likely never in the military, and I sincerely doubt any of them ever saw the aftermath of a gunshot.

Virtually everyone I’ve spoken with who either was in the military or law enforcement is against the proliferation of handguns among the masses.

The Chicago City Council, in one of its more lucid moments, voted 45-0 to make certain requirements necessary:

One handgun per person per month (in perpetuity);

Registration fees paid up front;

Mandatory training at an approved facility;

All but one handgun in the home locked up at all times;

Handguns remain in the home, unless secured in a vehicle traveling to or from a range;

Insurance.

Of course, the fanatical paranoiacs filed suit against these restrictions immediately upon their passage.  It approaches the insane to want to purchase 12 pistols per year, but they want to buy more, and in addition they don’t want proper training… and they don’t want to pay registration fees… and they don’t want to be insured against any damage that bullet does once it leaves the barrel…

And they want to carry a piece whenever they venture out of the house… in a city of 3,000,000 people.

Let’s face it, the only people who want handguns in Chicago are angry paranoid wusses.

I am still trying to read into the Second Amendment where it says “handguns” for “individual personal and family protection”.

The activist Righties of the Roberts’ Court are full of shit, and we Americans are getting the overflow shoved right up our backsides.

Shalom.

 Jerry Tenuto has earned a BS in Radio-Television and an MA in Telecommunications from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.  In addition to some 25 years in broadcasting, he is a seven-year veteran of the U.S. Army.  Since 1995, Jerry has found himself trapped in a “Red” enclave within the middle of the “Blue” state of Illinois, which he refers to as “slow death hell.”