Reply #5: "Luck" had nothing to do with it [View All]

[DonP]

In both recent Chicago cases it wasn't luck, it was preparation.

The old rule holds true that "the more you prepare, the luckier you seem to get".

In the recent case of the 80 year old Korean war vet, he had already been robbed at gun point and was not going to risk putting himself and his 83 year old wife at the mercy of armed thugs again.

He had to knowingly break the local (and unconstitutional) ban to buy a handgun for his home protection.

No Dirty Harry or vigilante fantasies here, as many gun owners are accused of. He bought it as a "Just in Case" last resort. If he had not, the headline would be very different and Daley would be clamoring that the gun manufacturers are responsible, not the thug.

It's interesting that the push back to Daley is coming from the one voting bloc that has been one of his biggest supporters and now is his biggest electoral threat, the African American majority in Chicago.