Hundreds of Chicago Public School students are expected to converge on the James R. Thompson Center Tuesday morning, urging state legislators to enact stiffer gun laws after a student was killed in the parking lot of the Simeon Career Academy on Saturday.Ah, an appeal based totally on emotion by the most ignorant and inexperienced among us, designed to further restrict unalienable rights! And "Public Schools chief" Arne Duncan makes the agenda clear, just in case anyone needs something to throw in the face of those who call the "slippery slope" paranoia:
More than 400 Simeon students will be bused by the district to attend the protest outside the Thompson Center, which houses Illinois state offices. Students from other schools such as Jones College Prepatory High School are also expected, officials said.
[W]e know the cure for this public health epidemic—getting rid of guns.Of course he means for someone else go about that task.
And, of course, they somehow have the money for this at a time when "The state is looking at a $750 million deficit" and the state board of education is slashing funds for education while pouring them into pork projects. You'd at least think they'd pour some of it into the lambs they're exploiting in a shameless propaganda display worthy of Joseph Goebbels.
Remember the line from The Blues Brothers, "I hate Illinois Nazis"?
So many, from legislators to educators to an apparent majority of the stupid, dependent and herdlike Eloi electorate are worthy of that contempt.