If you can't have guns, have bodyguards. They come in handy...

[spin]

Daley's Guard Catches Escaped Inmate

A convicted killer who escaped from the Indiana State Prison was caught Monday near the Michigan vacation home of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley by an officer on the mayor's security detail, authorities said.

Police warned nearby residents to stay inside because two other escapees were still on the loose. The three men were discovered missing Sunday morning from the maximum-security prison in Michigan City, Ind., apparently escaping through underground tunnels and pipes, the Indiana Department of Correction said.

Daley said he was at his southwestern Michigan vacation home early Monday with his wife and three grandchildren when one of his guards saw two men fitting the descriptions of the escapees near the house in Grand Beach, Mich.

The officer caught 48-year-old Charles Smith at gunpoint in a driveway near Daley's home, and police later arrived and took him into custody, said Grand Beach Police Chief Dan Schroeder. The other man ran off into the woods, Daley said.

Schroeder said police believe the other man seen near Daley's home was one of the escapees -- convicted killer Mark Booher, 46, of New Castle, Ind. Police told residents to lock their doors and not go outside.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/escaped_inmates_missing_caught

edited for fat fingers

[bitchkitty]

1. Apparently the maximum security prison wasn't quite that. n/t

[sharesunited]

2. Actually, the Chicago gun ban is the only thing I agree with Richy about.

In every other respect, he is textbook bad government yet somehow retains his office as a lifetime endowment.

[Deadric Damodred]

3. The ban will be gone in a year when...

...the SCOTUS rules against it in a 5-4 decision and incorporates the 2nd Amendment to the states.

[sharesunited]

5. Is that an outcome you welcome or an outcome you dread? n/t

[Deadric Damodred]

6. The ban is unconstitutional, as it is unreasonable...

...to deny people handguns when they are an individual right. So obviously I'll be dancing with glee when the SCOTUS says "hell no" to the ban.

[sharesunited]

8. Dancing with glee? Really? Here's my blessing to you.

May bullets never enter your body.

But a few whizzing past your head might serve as an appropriate wake-up call that what you promote and defend as a way of life for us is not a good thing.

[iverglas]

11. he's probably safe

I think to be at particular risk of gunshot death in Chicago, you need to be a schoolkid.

[jeepnstein]

19. Living in a poor neighborhood helps, too.

Look at who the victims are in these shootings. They're either involved in the drug trade or too poor to move out of neighborhoods blighted by drugs and gangs. They're darned if they do and darned if they don't. It's a pretty sad state of affairs in an otherwise really great nation.

The War on Drugs has been every bit as successful as Prohibition.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

21. And points out the classist and racist nature of many gun control laws

[iverglas]

22. and this is for both of you bozos

Look at who the victims are in these shootings. They're either involved in the drug trade or too poor to move out of neighborhoods blighted by drugs and gangs.

You feel free to look.


http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Blair.Holt.gun.2.337365.html

<2006-2007> has been a deadly school year in Chicago, and all across the city yearbooks will contain stories of the 27 students who didn't live to see June.

This constant crap about drugs and neighbourhoods blighted by them ... you people don't really believe that the suburbs and small towns aren't blighted by drugs, I'm quite sure.



And of course this, from your chum:

And points out the classist and racist nature of many gun control laws

hardly merits comment, other than to note that it certainly does point out the classist and racist nature of ... something.

Or perhaps someone really is advocating arming SCHOOLCHILDREN, who were after all the subject of my post.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

20. Its an outcome all progressives should welcome, the restoration of a long denied right

[spin]

12. Exactly how has the Chicago handgun ban improved Chicago?

[meegbear]

4. What about a poin-ted stick?

[jeepnstein]

9. Did you say "pointed stick"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

[meegbear]

13. Oh, oh, oh...

We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me!

[virginia mountainman]

7. Are some more equal than others??

[spin]

10. Of course. The rich, the famous and the politically connected are always more equal...

Should Antigun Liberals Use Armed Bodyguards?

It's what the rich and powerful do. According to an article in my morning paper of Jan. 14, television personality Ben Stein, star of Win Ben Stein's Money, was robbed at gunpoint recently and now has decided to hire a part-time bodyguard. The surprise is that he did not, as is the case with most celebrities, already have one. Like celebrities, politicians as well -- even the most shrill antigun governors and senators -- have their taxpayer-provided state-trooper bodyguards. It would be interesting to ask someone such as Bill Bradley, for example, to lead the way in the gun-control movement, which he champions, by disarming his bodyguards. "But," the objection would come, "I am a public figure and vulnerable to violent attack." And, would come my counter-objection, "we private citizens are not?"

Read the papers. For every Ben Stein or George Harrison there are thousands of ordinary people whose assault, rape or even murder does not make the banner headlines across the nation. Still, for those of us who cannot hire professional bodyguards, "gun controllers" would deprive us of our right even to defend ourselves with arms.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_6_16/ai_59585388/

[iverglas]

14. oooo, can I play?

I just love that style, don't you?

[virginia mountainman]

15. Very fitting, since we are talking about "King Daley"

[iverglas]

16. maybe you were

I was talking about the right-wing pieces of shit who produced the poster you so devotedly reproduced for us.

[Deadric Damodred]

17. I wonder...

...if your labeling of certain people as "right-wing pieces of shit" is correct, or if someone labeling people they don't agree with as "left-wing pieces of shit" is correct. I guess that who's right and who's wrong is based purely on opinion. You seem very sure of yourself everytime you refer to someone or something as "right-wing shit", but I wonder if you ever stop to think that maybe someone on the other side is thinking the same thing you are accept in reverse...refering to what you are in favor of as "left-wing shit". When you look at it like that, everytime you say something is "right-wing shit", it's nothing more than your opinion that may or may not have anymore worth or value assigned to it than someone who talks about "left-wing shit".

[iverglas]

18. uh, I don't give a shit?

If a right-wing piece of shit referred to me as a left-wing piece of shit, I'd consider my job well done.


everytime you say something is "right-wing shit", it's nothing more than your opinion

To the extent that you are referring to the "shit" element of the term: fucking DUH, eh?

As regards the "right-wing" element of it, that is objectively verifiable.