ISRA Suggests Once Again That Chicago Mayor Daley Take A Much-Needed Vacation

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May 20, 2010, 06:27 ET

CHICAGO, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):

For the second time in recent weeks, the ISRA is suggesting strongly that Chicago Mayor Daley get some rest and relaxation. The ISRA first suggested that Daley take some time off after the mayor demanded that his failed $433 Million lawsuit against lawful firearm manufacturers be heard by the World Court.

This second plea by the ISRA that the mayor take some time to chill comes on the heels of a particularly bizarre press conference held earlier today. During the press conference, the Mayor expressed his wish that U.S. Supreme Court justices become victims of violent crime so that they will rule in Chicago's favor in the McDonald vs. Chicago case now before the high court. Things got totally out of hand later in the press conference when Daley waved a prop gun around and told a reporter, "If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is. Let me put a round up your, you know."

"I was rather embarrassed for Mayor Daley after reading his remarks," commented ISRA Executive Director, Richard Pearson. "I cannot imagine what would possess the mayor to suggest that Supreme Court Justices may need to suffer criminal violence in order to get them to vote his way. This is especially troubling after his earlier remarks suggesting that the World Court should be the supreme authority over the U.S. Constitution. Scarier still was the mayor's offer to practice amateur proctology on a reporter who questioned him on the apparent lack of success of Chicago's gun ban. But the remarks that should be the most troubling to law-abiding citizens were the mayor's threats to institute even harsher restrictions on private firearm ownership should the U.S. Supreme Court find against the city in the McDonald v. Chicago case. The mayor needs to learn that he is not all-powerful and that the U.S. Constitution was drafted primarily to protect the citizenry from people like him."

The ISRA is the state's leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearm ownership. For more than a century, the ISRA has represented the interests of millions of law-abiding Illinois firearm owners.

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SOURCE Illinois State Rifle Association