ISRA Alert 04/03/2008
ISRA Press Release:
ISRA Statement on Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan
CHICAGO, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following
was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association
(ISRA):
On Tuesday, April 1, 2008, Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan stood
at a lectern in the Thompson Center Plaza and essentially blamed
the
state's
hunters and s****tsmen for the murders of 20 Chicago school
children.
Duncan
made his appearance during a gun control rally sponsored by Rev.
Michael
Pfleger of St. Sabina's Catholic Church. Pfleger is best
remembered
for his
speech at an earlier gun control rally during which he called for
the murder of gun shop owners and state legislators who oppose
gun control laws.
Interestingly enough, at about the same time that Duncan was
delivering
his rant against the state's law abiding firearm owners, a re****t
was released in "Catalyst Magazine" that indicates that just 51%
of
freshmen
enrolled in Chicago public high schools stick it out to graduate.
"Studies by the Chicago Police Department indicate that 88% of
murders are committed by people with previous criminal records,"
commented
ISRA
Executive Director Richard Pearson. "Likewise, those same re****ts
show
that
about 76% of murder victims had records as well. Nonetheless,
op****tunists
like Pfleger and Duncan persist in ****fting the blame away from
failed public policies and towards law-abiding hunters and
s****tsmen. The gun control measures these people advocate will
never succeed in thwarting crime because they totally ignore the
criminal element."
"It's ironic that the truth about Duncan's administration was
being released just as he was damning the state's law-abiding gun
owners," continued Pearson. "Maybe if Duncan did a better job
keeping his
charges in
school, they wouldn't be out on the streets beating, knifing and
shooting
one another to death. If Duncan had any sense of responsibility
at
all, he
would have been at the microphone apologizing to the people of
Illinois for
wasting their time and tax dollars. By all rights, Arne Duncan
should be returning 49% of his $200,000 annual salary to the
Chicago treasury. He's doing half a job -- so he deserves half
his pay."
The ISRA is the state's leading advocate of safe, lawful and
responsible firearms owner****p. Since 1903, the ISRA has
represented the interests of over 1.5 million law-abiding
Illinois firearm owners.
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