Guns Save Lives In Chicago!

Mass Shooter Goes on Rampage in Chicago, Then Obama’s Worst Nightmare Shows Up

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In the wake of last week’s terrorist attack in California and liberals’ misplaced outrage over the availability of firearms for self-defense for Americans, it’s worth remembering just what can happen when there’s a good guy with a gun around to stop the back guy in his tracks.

In April, a driver for the freelance taxi company Uber demonstrated for even liberals to see that the best way Americans can fight back against mass shooters is to be armed and ready to defend themselves or save lives. That’s exactly what he did when he pulled out his concealed carry weapon and injured a gunman who began shooting into a crowd.

The incident occurred in Chicago, when the driver had dropped off a passenger just before Everardo Custodio, 22, opened fire in Chicago’s Logan Square, according to the Chicago Sun Times. The driver was watching a group of people pass in front of his car on North Milwaukee Avenue when Custodio began firing into their direction.

The driver drew his weapon and fired six shots at Custodio, who was wounded in the thigh, shin and lower back.

Police in the area heard the shots and arrived on the scene where they found Custodio on the ground. They recovered a handgun near his body.

The Uber driver stayed on the scene and provided information to police and faced no charges.

Illinois Assistant State’s Attorney Barry Quinn confirmed the driver “had a concealed-carry permit and acted in the defense of himself and others,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

Uber spokeswoman Jen Mullin, said the company requires all its drivers to abide by all laws — local, state and federal — when carrying firearms in vehicles.

The attempted shooting left no one but Custodio injured.

This incident is a classic example of how the Second Amendment works and why Americans need to be armed and ready for any situation at any time. The police cannot be everywhere and legally armed Americans are the best answer for shooters and angry mobs intending to hurt or kill them.

This made liberals crazy because they couldn’t deny the fact that this Uber driver saved lives. But it’s a truth they have to face.

H/T The Gateway Pundit

Liberal Canadian Learns Gun Registry Issues First Hand

Fiorito: Is Toronto safer without my bird gun?

Published on Monday February 01, 2010

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By Joe FioritoCity Columnist

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I am and have been a supporter of the gun registry but now I'm not so sure, not when ownership of a two-bit little bird gun – legally acquired, lawfully used and stored in pieces in a trunk for the past 30 years – is sufficient reason for three cops to come to my door and snatch it, after threatening me with a search warrant.

Look, I registered the damn thing. I simply neglected to renew. A sin of omission?

Send in the troops.

An aside: as I began to write this – on the afternoon of the day the column about the gun-snatching appeared – two cop cars spent five minutes idling in front of my house. Surely a coincidence.

Another aside: the cops who came to get my gun asked if I still worked for the Star. Did they want me to write about the gun registry?

If so, there were easier ways.

As you know, if you visit this space from time to time, I am a social democrat who wears his bleeding heart on his sleeve. I believe – and have said so publicly – that the only people in the city who ought to have handguns are cops, and that nobody anywhere ought to have military-style weapons.

I also know that Parkdale is not Northern Ontario, and that Queen and Lansdowne is not Baffin Island, where I lived for five years.

On Baffin Island, people hunt with the same ease, and for the same reason, that you and I go to the supermarket. I did not hunt there because any time I wanted to I could buy a stack of caribou chops from the meat locker at the Hunters and Trappers Association in downtown Iqaluit.

I also laud the fact that, according to acting police chief Kim Derry, "more than 1,150 firearms have been seized" since March of last year, thanks to Project Safe City. "Over 70 per cent were handguns, assault rifles, machine guns or submachine guns."

I merely observe the absence of old, single-shot, 20-gauge bird guns on that list.

And here's a note from a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces who spent more than 15 years as a military policeman:

"Had you decided not to be intimidated by the police and refused to cooperate, your home would have been invaded by the police with a warrant and ransacked until the offending firearm was found and then you would have been charged under a number of breaches of the Firearms Act. Your life would then have been turned upside down, brought to the brink of bankruptcy by exorbitant legal fees and (you would have) faced up to 10 years in prison, all for having an attitude and not having a licence for a duck gun."

I plan to do what is necessary to retrieve my shotgun.

The before and after?

Before, I had a gun with no ammunition locked up in my basement. After, I'll have a gun with no ammo locked up in my basement. In between there was nastiness.

I still fail to see how the city is safer.

A final aside: Officer N., the cop with the sneer, said as he was leaving that some sort of understanding might have been reached but not with a guy like me. All he knows about a guy like me is that I have a sharp tongue when I'm being bullied. If that's all he knows, he doesn't read the papers much.

If there was some sort of understanding to be had, why was that not put to me from the start, in which case my reaction might well have been sweeter?

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/758486--fiorito-is-toronto-safer-without-my-bird-gun