Law And Order?

The following two stories came to me over the weekend, but I was too busy to post on them then.

First is this tragic story from the UK.

LONDON (Reuters) - An innocent 15-year-old schoolboy was sprayed with bullets
from a machine gun as he lay in his own bed after becoming the victim of mistaken identity during a gang war, a London court heard on Friday.

The second from my hometown of Chicago.

In a dramatic gesture, Mayor Daley has called for a summit at City Hall today to search for solutions to the bloodbath of violence -- almost all of it involving guns -- that has swept across Chicago's neighborhoods in recent weeks.

These two tragic stories have a couple of things in common. First is that the violence is from armed gangs. The second is that both cities have some of the most restrictive gun control legislation on the books. You simply can not legally own a gun in Chicago or in Britian.

Gun control proponents (like Mayor Daley) love to tell us that making guns illegal will stop the violence. As you can see, these law have not stopped the criminals from getting AND USING guns. All the summits and meetings and laws in the world are not going to stop people who are hell bent on breaking the law from doing so. We must simply get out of this mindset.

We need to make sure that those who are intent on breaking the law...any laws....are punished appropriately and those that are prone to violent crime need to be removed from society until they can prove that they can "play nice" with the rest of the civilized world. THAT is government's job....not warehousing our kids DNA. You want to get the guns off of the street Mr. Mayor.....get the criminals off of the street. It's that simple!