[Pocketprotector]

What a total utter unfettered asshat.

"Facing a surging homicide rate and several headline-grabbing murders, Chicago’s top cop is taking aim at lobbyists who he says prevent politicians from implementing more gun control measures.

Appearing on a local Windy City Sunday morning talk show on the radio station WLSAM, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said special interests that lobby politicians to influence their opinion on gun control are the real problem.

“If there was a special interest influencing police work, I believe that would be called corruption,” McCarthy said. “So, if it has to do with donating money, versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and someone has to wake up to that.”

Gun rights advocates seized on the comments, saying that McCarthy was blaming the city’s gun violence on donors and lobbyists who advocate for the Second Amendment.

“Garry McCarthy’s understanding of our Constitution barely qualifies him as a meter maid, never mind the chief of the nation’s third largest police department,” Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson said.

Despite having some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, Chicago saw more than 500 homicides last year for the first time since 2008, and some 43 murders took place in January. That has prompted several pro-gun rights groups to say it proves new gun control measures aren’t the answer.

McCarthy told FoxNews.com he never advocated “getting rid of the Second Amendment.” He said he was making the point that there is popular support for new gun control laws and that lobbyists are stopping elected officials from reflecting the will of the people."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/18/chi...z2LLyQFYOM

[Camper]

A Chicago anything preaching about corruption is like a whore preaching about abstinence.

[kadar]

“If there was a special interest influencing police work, I believe that would be called corruption,” McCarthy said.

The FOP is not a special interest group?

Open mouth, insert foot.

[streaker69]

Will someone give him a call and tell him it's 2013, and tell him that Palin isn't relevant anymore?

[soberbyker]

[Pocketprotector]

Law abiding OPPOSITION.

This is all and ONLY about eliminating it.