Looking for a F&F silver lining, the only thing I got is the fact that so many gun dealers had so many concerns and reported them to BATFE. Having the Government on record as saying 'go ahead and make the questionable sale' destroys the American and Mexican governments' propaganda about lax gun sales here. A better silver lining would be an important person or persons up on involuntary manslaughter charges and ending up going to jail. (Gee, that sounds so much like the left's attitude toward the Bush Administration. That's about the only similarity as the ideological reasons are vastly different. Sort of like the TEA Party and #OWS are both out there protesting, sometimes the same things but, again, for vastly different ideological reasons.)
On an unrelated side note, there's one thing among many items missing from the news reports: The corruption history of Chicago. Everybody (who actually paid attention in school) has heard of Tammany Hall, but so little about the royalty in Chicago governance. Why, it's almost as if the residents there vote to live under a third world kleptocracy; Chicago has a long and storied history of corruption, as does Illinois in general (not the picture of Middle America most people have, though).
A story my Mom told me: When she was a little girl growing up in the coal country of southwest Virginia, around 8 or 9, at the beginning of the Depression in '30-'31, she said her Dad (whom I never met) was listening to the radio and the announcer had some teaser (yeah, they were there back then, though I don't know what they were called then) about corruption in Illinois. Now remember this is a few hundred miles away in an age of limited communication. She said he muttered out loud something like: 'Everybody knows there's corruption in Illinois. Been known for years.' That Obama came from one of the most corrupt city regimes in the country barely earns a whimper in the media.
If there's two things I want from a Barry Court Administration, it's that we as a Nation look harder at the qualifications of those wanting to become President and begin to scrutinize every lawyer running just a little bit harder. I'd also like to think that this Country will not elect anyone from a big city again anytime soon. Would any of you want Bloomberg? (Take my mayor, please!) Or Giuliani? Trust me on ol' Rudy, he had many good points, but his personal life while in office was a mess, a self-imploded complicated mess. He also had his nanny state moments that people now either overlook or never hear about. In NYC, jaywalking is not the crime it is in other parts of the country (most especially an area like Los Angeles). We're adults here, and if the coast is clear, who gives a sh*t about the color of a light bulb inside some metal canister hanging by a wire over the street? It's not like it's sentient or anything. So Rudy gets it into his little totalitarian head to put up barricades (sort of like metal bicycle racks) on the corners of some of Midtown's busiest intersections (yeah, I know, to some of you, they're all busy, but someplace like the corner of 6th and 48th, with Radio City right there, the intersection being the SW corner of Rockefeller Center). Now the erected barricades funneled people into little lanes in order to cross the street with the light as you had to walk quite a ways to get around them. Slowed pedestrian traffic to a crawl, which affected motorized traffic. And when a pedestrian only has a couple of minutes to grab something to eat then sit for a while somewhere and consume lunch, well, minutes count. The whole barricade idea was eventually laughed out of existence, because even the cops were annoyed by them.
