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« Dems pushing DC gun regulation rollback | Main | Heller gets his gun registered »

Chicago suburbs trying to get around Heller

Posted by David Hardy · 18 August 2008 08:22 AM

Chicago Public Radio has a story. The group doing the drafting, Legal Community Against Violence, is a Joyce Foundation subsidiary.

· Heller aftermath

7 Comments | Leave a comment

Carl in Chicago | August 18, 2008 9:06 AM | Reply

And still unable to gain traction or attention in the national spotlight ... and only 10 weeks before the general election:

1) Joyce Foundation's massive funding of gun-control organizations ($12 million plus in the past 5 years).

2) That the funded gun control organizations masquerade under the pretense of "violence prevention."

3) That Barack Obama served on Joyce's board of directors from 1998-2001.

4) That Barack Obama's claims of support for the second amendment are thinly-veiled lies, politically expedient for appealing to mainstream America.

How the hell do we get these facts into the mainstream discussion?

tom gunn | August 18, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply

Yep! We've seen l c a v before, right here on Of Arms And The Law:

https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2006/08/another_grassro_1.php

David, Do you know the history of the joyce foundation? Has it been subverted from
its original charter?

Carl in Chicago | August 18, 2008 11:21 AM | Reply

See here for their mission, history, etc.

http://www.joycefdn.org/AboutUs/Default.aspx

At the close of 2006, Foundation assets exceeded $900 million. Dayum.

tom gunn | August 18, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply

Carl,

Thanks.

I'm interested in the founder Beatrice Joyce Kean and whether her politics would support what the foundation has become.

The early history of the foundation doesn't seem to have been quite so progressive. (An I mean that in the worst way possible)


rio arriba | August 18, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply

The "elites" of our society have sent out the signal that it is OK to flout the SOCUS ruling and to generally diss the whole 2A concept.

In their minds ANY means to their righteous ends are justified.

So when do they get around to the 1A, or any of the others?

All in good time.

Carl in Chicago | August 18, 2008 2:02 PM | Reply

Rio, I totally hear you. It's as if they are morally correct, Supreme Court be damned. Good thing the "conservative" opponents of Roe v Wade don't do that.

Anyway, speaking of another (somewhat unlikely) elite dissing the 2A by exercising his 1A rights, get a load of this:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/08152008/policol182401_32466.shtml

Jim D. | August 18, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply

Carl in Chicago said:
At the close of 2006, [Joyce] Foundation assets exceeded $900 million. Dayum.

That would buy a lot of healthcare for Chicago's poor.

If Joyce spent just $1 out of every $9, they could help 50,000 to 100,000 poor children stop suffering from the lack of medical care. If Joyce really cared about the children, that is.

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