Parrothead Jeff & Friends

Yeah, you read that right.

From the Chicago Sun Times:

Six years after the state Supreme Court dismissed his $433 million lawsuit against the gun industry, Mayor Daley today called for a change of venue — to the World Court normally reserved for disputes between nations and crimes against humanity.

Wrapping up the sixth annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum, Daley convinced more than a dozen of his counterparts from around the world to approve a resolution urging “redress against the gun industry through the courts of the world” in The Hague.

Tam at View From the Porch had a pretty good post about this.  The first two sentences are great.

Dick Daley is a venal, corrupt, lying sonofabitch, from a long line of venal, corrupt, lying sonsabitches. What he knows about ethics could be written on the head of a pin, in Sharpie.

But do make sure to go and read the rest here.

My take on the situation?  Bad move, Mr. Daley.  Very bad move.  Lots of people are waking up to the Constitution, what it says, and what it means.  You’re just using it for toilet paper here.  But it’s nothing we haven’t come to expect from you.

David Codrea had another great article about this issue in his Gun Rights Examiner column today:

Just so we’re clear: Unable to sustain his assault on freedom through Constitutional means, Daley is not beneath resorting to extra-Constitutional, that is, unlawful ones. Which means if he can secure a globalist ruling against gun manufacturers, the precedent will be established for securing similar rulings against gun owners for his entire diabolical citizen disarmament wish list.

Nuh-uh. That better stop here and now. Because we really don’t want to have to stop it later.

Oh, he can get whatever rulings he wants. But they’ll have no legitimate effect on what we do as citizens and the choices we make in exercising our rights. And any attempts to enforce such edicts against us can be regarded as an unlawful initiation of force, to be repelled and responded to accordingly.

That seems a pretty dangerous and irresponsible thing to do to people who want to be left alone. It seems like something only a madman would do.

Of course, things don’t have to go that far. We as gun owners have been sitting here taking it from this egotistical little hypocrite for far too long. And while all he knows and understands is coercion backed by force of state arms—you know, that monopoly of violence Josh Horwitz praises while citing Nazi-enabler Max Weber—we peaceable armed citizens have a devastatingly powerful weapon at our disposal: voluntary association.

I wonder if Glenn will post a bit about this one…

Hat tip to Western Rifle Shooters Association