A Daly Dose of Reality

Living (at least part-time now) in Chicagoland, has really been an eye-opener in terms of big city characteristics, good and bad.

Back in the Detroit area, we had always heard about the great city of Chicago, it's restaurants, entertainment, museums, etc.. An exciting and vibrant, shining city on the lake. And you know what? It is all of that. But then there's the other side.

Chicago is big. I don't know for sure, maybe 2 or 3 times the population of the Detroit Metro area. So you would expect that there would be more of everything. But somehow, coming from the "Murder City", I never really thought Chicago could beat Detroit in that category. But they do. In fact, violent crime is up 13% in one year! I feel like making a public plea over here, "Don't do this just to make me feel at home!"

Everyone is desperate to find an answer. This week the Chief of Police spent two days being grilled by City Council as to why his force can't get control. The Govenor of Illinois has offered up equipment and men from the National Guard to help patrol neighborhoods.

The City is run by the Honorable Richard M. Daly, Mayor. A rather dim-witted, career politician (the apple never falls very far from the tree!) that actually comes off as one of those guys on Saturday Night Live that were "da Bears" fans. Seriously, he sounds and looks just like one of them! But he's also a poster child for liberal wackos everywhere. During the recent Gun Control debate in the Supreme Court, he made some just outlandish statements about the ruling which struck down Washington DC's gun ban. You see, the Mayor has his own law, almost identical, and he now knows that it's in serious trouble and is about to be challenged. He will lose.

But in the face of all of this, I have yet to hear anyone really challenge him with some simple questions; how in the world does this crime wave tearing through Chicago happen, when you've got what is now, the toughest gun control law in the country? And then how can you stand there and defend it?!!

The answers of course, are obvious. But not to those who's entire brain remains muddled in the same old tired, liberal ideals....like keeping guns away from all of those honest, hard working and law abiding Chicagoans!

Detroit, it turns out, has no monopoly on crime, or second-rate Mayors.