Rearranging Deck Chairs

Undeterred by reality smacking him in the face, Shortshanks continues to live in la-la-land and rolls out another set of proposals designed to enrich lobbyists and waste tax dollars:

• Mayor Daley today unveiled his annual package of gun control legislation and denied he's "swimming upstream" at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled its intention to overturn Chicago's handgun ban.

  Most of the ideas are re-treads, but there are a few new wrinkles. They include a proposal to make it a mandatory Class 1 felony to "knowingly sell or transfer a gun to a known gang member."

  Daley also wants to strengthen penalties for unlawful use of a weapon so those caught carrying loaded weapons are no longer, as he put it, "let off scot-free."

  Yet another mayoral proposal would require semi-automatic pistols manufactured or delivered for sale in Illinois to be capable of "micro-stamping." The technology helps law enforcement link spent ammunition with the gun used to fire it.

None of Daley's proposals have gone anywhere in the past and aren't going anywhere in the future. In fact, most of the proposals encourage people to find so-called "loopholes" to avoid onerous and pointless nonsense and none of them affect guns manufactured prior to the proposed changes.

Again, we advise everyone who wants a gun to go buy one before the rush. Daley's nonsense aside, there's going to be a run on weapons.

On a better note, here's an article by Steve Chapman explaining why Chicago's gun ban didn't work and won't ever work.