As a victim of the recession and massive lay-offs that followed, I lost my job and was forced to fly to Chicago for a job fair this past weekend. It was my first trip to Chicago, my hometown, in quite some time, making me wonder how Chicagoland had prepared for the expected mayhem after the US Supreme Court ruled the 2nd Amendment is an individual right. The reaction of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to the Supreme Court ruling was astounding, he actually pouted and stomped his feet while discussing how a gun in a law-abiding person’s house is a threat to public safety.
Luckily, the pilot of my flight into Chicago was a long time veteran of Chicago’s O’Hare airport and used the customary cork-screw landing to confuse any gunmen looking to shoot the plane down. His landing was a carbon copy of the landing described by Hillary Clinton during her arrival in Bosnia safely all those years ago. Upon exiting the plane, passengers were rushed from the tarmac into armored vehicles and whisked to the relative safety of the terminal. As our new Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton is sure to use her the skills she learned dodging sniper fire in Bosnia to help portray herself as tough on foreign policy.
Based on Mayor Daley’s predictions after the US Supreme Court ruling, I fully expected that Chicago would be under virtual lockdown.
Yet, that wasn’t the case.
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