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Mayor Daley Threatens US Gunmakers With Lawsuit In World Court
2010-04-28
Since the Mayor's getting very little done in Springfield or Washington or in the courts to expand gun control, now he wants mayors in other countries like Mexico to drag American gun makers into the World Court in the Hague.

Daley says, "We are shipping guns there by the truckload to people to kill each other. They're not manufactured there. And we want the drugs that come from other countries that is a conduit, like a highway through Mexico, into the United States! And we sit like we have no responsibility. We should not ship any guns to Mexico."
That didn't make a bit of sense ...
I asked the Mayor what legal authority there is to sue the U.S. gun industry in the World Court. He said, "Well, that's why we have about 12 million lawyers. You never know until you try."
Perhaps one of those twelve million lawyers is conservative enough to sue the mayor and the city of Chicago for stupidity ...
Backing up Daley is Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, one of more than a dozen mayors -- including the Mayor of Mexico City -- who signed a resolution to pursue this tactic.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#19  Thanks for correcton the slip, Waldemar. I'm a suburban Chicagoan as well and I should have known better.
Posted by: Steve White   2010-04-28 20:56  

#18  Μολὼν λαβέ
Posted by: mojo   2010-04-28 20:35  

#17  One of their hands is bawwing about the manufacturing sector fleeing American while at the same time the other is doing it's very best to send packing what manufacturing remains.
Posted by: Mike N.   2010-04-28 18:19  

#16  Thanks Waldemar Gleamp1150. I stand corrected about dead voters.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-04-28 17:01  

#15  As a Chicagoan I have to make some corrections here... because you guys are driving the rest of us Chicagoans nuts! No offence intended, we know these are innocnet mistakes.
3DC - It's the Duff's not the Duffy's
Besoeker - Illinois is already run like Zimbabwe, how would we notice?
Steve White - Illinois has STATES ATTORNEYS not DA's We also have the Secretary of State not DMV's. We already 'invest' millions in the 'community' That's worked out well.
JohnQC - We haven't needed dead voters since we got computerized voting machines. Now they only need one guy to steal an election and it reduces all that paper. IT's GREEN!
Posted by: Waldemar Gleamp1150   2010-04-28 16:53  

#14  I'm with you, TEX! Let him try to take mine, too! ;-)
Posted by: Shoting Unelet2578   2010-04-28 15:09  

#13  Mayor Daley, it seems like Chicago has its own crime problems such as increasing murders. Maybe what you are saying is just distraction from a whole bunch of problems in your own neighborhoods. But Chicago has been and is a model for crime. Runs the gamut from crooked politicians, ACORN, dead voters, to murder in your streets. Daley, read the Constitution. If you don't understand it you shouldn't be in office.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-04-28 14:40  

#12  

PLEASE, Come and try to get mine, Daley!
Posted by: TEX   2010-04-28 14:30  

#11  Richie Short Shanks could also hire some police officers. He could ensure that said officers are properly trained. He could lean on his pet district attorney to have felons convicted of gun crimes put away in the state prison forever (c.f. Virginia). He could have his city officials work on community improvement and get residents to trust calling the police about the drug dealers and gang bangers --

-- oh, what am I saying?
Posted by: Steve White   2010-04-28 14:22  

#10  There have been far more Chinese AK-47's and SKS carbines sold in the states than Russian ones.
A russian model is actually quite a find anymore.
I'd be willing to bet that there are many, many more AK's and SKS's in American (or Mexican) homes than AR-15's or Stoner's or Springfield M1a's.
Most of the guns that go to Mexico are either obtained through burglaries or carried back by Mexicans that live in the states. Every one of them comes home to Mexico with a pickup truck and a gun. Been there, seen it. Big man with fancy pickup and a gun, its like a mexican comic strip or something.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2010-04-28 12:35  

#9  Sure thing, Dick. And while we're at it we can sue the Russians for all those Kalashnikovs.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2010-04-28 12:03  

#8  Hey...I got an idea. How bout actually making a real effort to secure the border? You know...stop the illegal flow both ways. Just noodlin here.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2010-04-28 11:48  

#7  Solution...Chicago declares independence and becomes it's own country just like Zimbabwe.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-04-28 11:20  

#6  I'm not sure the Duffy's would be happy with their pet pol interfering with a product useful to them..
(ducking...) Of course their preference is construction equipment and supplies....
Posted by: 3dc   2010-04-28 11:14  

#5  That Constitution thingee keeps getting in the way of our Political Overlords.

It will be mute in June when the Supremes rule against Chicago's handgun ban
Posted by: Waldemar Gleamp1150   2010-04-28 11:03  

#4  Daley says, "We are shipping guns there by the truckload to people to kill each other. They're not manufactured there. And we want the drugs that come from other countries that is a conduit, like a highway through Mexico, into the United States! And we sit like we have no responsibility. We should not ship any guns to Mexico."

We are shipping them there directly from the factory? Doesn't seem right. If they are ending up there in volume, it is probably a few here and a few there until it adds up.

What percentage of the guns there are manufactured in the US?

And I'm sure if S&W didn't fill the demand, that Russia or China would be more than happy to.
Posted by: gorb   2010-04-28 10:58  

#3  Then to the Universal court!!
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-04-28 10:47  

#2  ...and if that doesn't work, it's on to Intergalactic Court!
Posted by: tu3031   2010-04-28 10:37  

#1  Maybe the lawyers can find more money suing politicians who engage in blatant violation of basic Constitutional rights of their citizenry. Never know till its tried, right mayor.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-04-28 10:33  

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