“Gun violence” is a misnomer. Firearms are inanimate tools used by law-abiding citizens for everything from sport shooting and putting food on the table to defending loved ones and property from violent criminals.
Even so, political leaders who lack the intestinal fortitude to take on actual perpetrators find the Second Amendment an easy target for their schemes.
Now comes word that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) signed an executive order to address the scourge of violence in his city. The new Department of Gun Violence Reduction, to be headed by the Mayor’s Office, will certainly not address the city’s dilemma, and it’s not meant to.
New department will likely be weaponized against gun rights
Johnson claimed that his focus is on transforming the metropolis into a bastion of public safety.
“From day one in office, my number one priority has been driving down violence and breaking the cycles of despair which have disrupted the lives of countless Chicagoans—with this executive order we are bringing together every tool at our disposal to save lives and build safer communities,” the mayor said.
Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, executive director of Live Free Illinois, applauded the order. She endorsed “coordination, accountability, healing, and community investment” as the yellow brick road to a better city.
Johnson ignored pressing needs for more policing and jail facilities
There is nothing inherently wrong with these ideas, but they are no more than words if wrongdoers are left on the streets to prey on the good people of Chicago.
If the staggering $100 million in funding were earmarked for increased policing in Chicago’s many trouble spots, that could make a real difference.
And if the program addressed the criminal neglect of prosecutors and judges who systematically release dangerous criminals back onto the streets, it would have considerable promise.
But it won’t.
In a city already facing an almost $1 billion budget deficit, Johnson chose style over substance in what undoubtedly will be an all-out assault on the right to keep and bear arms.
He knows that law-abiding gun owners are not the problem and that the Windy City’s criminal element will not be deterred by even more gun control, political posturing, or rolling out social programs. Chicago and the surrounding area already have some of the most stringent gun control laws in the nation.
This new office promises even more.
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