Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 27, 2010

Law-abiding residents of Chicago are forbidden to own handguns. This hasn?t prevented criminals from acquiring firearms of every size and description.

Since the beginning of the year, 113 Chicago residents have been murdered by criminals wielding firearms. That body count matches the number of U.S. troops killed so far this year in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two members of the Illinois state legislature, invoking that grim statistic, have called for the deployment of National Guard troops on the streets of Chicago in order to suppress violent crime.

"We are not talking about rolling tanks down the streets or having armed guards on each corner,? insists Rep. John Fritchley. Instead, he suggests that troops supplement some 100 special urban police units deployed to notoriously crime-prone areas.

For decades, Chicago residents have been disarmed by law, and trapped between violent criminals and corrupt police. Overt martial law may be the final act in the Second City?s unfolding tragedy ? and an ominous portent for the rest of the country.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.