Bayou Renaissance Man has posted an excellent article about the Chicago situation, taking Mayor Daly to task for his numskull approach to governance, this being the weekend following their 32-shootings and 2 stabbings weekend.

In that article he relates a telling episode in the time following hurricane Katrina.  I’ve quoted that part below, but you really should read his full article, here.

Areas and cities with more level-headed inhabitants don’t have this problem, Mayor Daley. I recall when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The city where I live had an influx of “refugees” from there, including many gang-bangers and thugs. They promptly tried to do to us what they’d become used to doing in New Orleans . . . and got the shock of their lives. You see, in our town many of us (most?) are armed; we don’t have a problem looking out for ourselves and each other; and we’re absolutely determined that our streets will not become the sewers and shooting galleries (of more than one variety) that you’ve permitted yours to become, Mayor Daley.

One of my fonder post-Katrina memories was watching two local cops handcuff three New Orleans gang-bangers prior to putting them in durance vile.

One of them, still blubbering from the shock of having a female shop assistant shove the muzzle of a twelve-gauge shotgun under his nose and invite him to “Go for it, dumbass!”, said tearfully to one cop, “But dis NEVAH happen in New Oh-Leen!”

The cop looked at him, rather irritably (euphemism!), and retorted, “Yeah . . . but this ain’t New Orleans!”

As I read the piece, I couldn’t help but think of New Orleans being a very much unarmed city of good citizens thanks to the confiscation of weapons by the police department and other law enforcement agencies “helping out” there, and Chicago’s citizens who are equally defenseless, though for a much longer term.