Mayor Daley, the 2nd Amendment & the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 7/2/08 @ 2:04 am - Filed Under Featured, National Politics

There wasn’t much council business tonight so I thought I’d add one more 2nd amendment related post in light of last week’s Supreme Court ruling. I remember watching current Chicago mayor Richard Daley ranting about the court’s decision shortly after it happened.

All I could think of was his own father (also mayor at the time) ordering a wave of police brutality against peaceful protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. And I wondered what this guy would do if he could truly disarm the entire citizenry - it wouldn’t be pretty.

So here are a couple of the current mayor’s comments along with a trip down memory lane to revisit the gestapo-like tactics of the Daley regime in 1968…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrKYUjQ8tQ