Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wants to begin a new chapter in gun-control-through-litigation by commencing proceedings in the World Court. I discuss that wretched idea at Cato at Liberty (& thanks to Glenn Reynolds and Damon Root for the links)
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by Walter Olson on July 13, 2010
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wants to begin a new chapter in gun-control-through-litigation by commencing proceedings in the World Court. I discuss that wretched idea at Cato at Liberty (& thanks to Glenn Reynolds and Damon Root for the links)
Tagged as: Chicago, guns, international human rights, international law

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Maybe this isn’t such a bad idea after all. Think of all the trouble it will save if all we need to do is sue Iran and North Korea to prevent them from going nuclear.
You expect anything less than idiocy from the latest version of the notoriously corrupt Daley Machine ??
Short Shanks ain’t as smart as his daddy, but he’s just as vindictive. Look for some not-so-subtle arm-twisting.
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