From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Subject: Racism in Rockford IL   (was: What Happens to Your Gun if You Defend Yourself at Home?)
Keywords: Rockford, IL: Regime of slime and terror
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:53:37 GMT

tomm@voodoo.boeing.com (Tom Mackey) writes:

>@ihlpa.att.com (John H Gustavson) writes:
>>It just occurred to me that if a perpetrator invaded my house and
>>I defended myself and shot him/her, would the gun I shot the perpetrator
>>with be confiscated for 'evidence' or whatever ?
>>This brings up an important issue to me:  If my gun is confiscated,
>>I will need more than one in order to defend myself and family against
>>another invasion.
>>Anyone out there know the laws in Illinois ?

	An interesting tale of tyranny in Rockford, Illness, the 
perpepetual worst city in the country per Money Magazine and me, where 
I used to have the misfortune of living.

A man is in his home, and that home is invaded.   He has a pellet gun,
and he drives the cowardly attacker out with it, shooting the dog
in the ass as he departs.   The attacker is caught or calls the police, 
and the Rockford prosecutor arrests the defender and takes his nasty 
pellet gun away.   The paper (I wasn't living there so this part is heresay)
always a bolshie rag, imo, writes about how bad it is to hurt poor 
disadvantaged burglars-of-color, and how the homeowner is a vigilante 
and perhaps a closet white supremacist (now I am straying %^).

	The only support he got was in the letters to the editor and
from the grand jury, who threw out the spurious case against him,
ruining that particular power trip for the prosecutor.  The city council 
holds a meeting on whether or not to ban handguns in Rockford, swamped
by angry citizens (or "stacked by the gun lobby", depending on if you
believe your friends or the paper) the paper prints a series of articles 
and editorials about how guns in the hands of homeowners are 43 times 
more likely to cause mayhem and unfurl the fabric of society, etc, etc, 
etc, and everybody lives happily ever after.

	A pal of mine, still trapped there via home ownership, says that
if a mass killer/Willy Horton/Richard Speck kinda guy breaks in to your
home and winds up shot, you better not be white if he's black, unless
reading things like:  
"white supremacist attacks poor black motorist looking for gas-can"
in the paper, & "candlelight vigil protest in sympathy of slain 
motorist Willy Horton held in front yard of attacker by civil rights
groups" is to your liking.  You might as well have something to read in
jail.		%^)
	He's just kidding, It's not quite that bad, but almost.  Another
friend's dad's machine shop was broken into.  The burglars stupidly didn't
realize that some employees were still there that night, and they were
chased out of the shop and into the get-away-van.   Before they took off,
an employee managed to smash the windshield and dent the van up with a
metal pipe.   When the disadvantaged criminals-of-color were caught, rather 
than being prosecuted, _the employee_ was summoned to court for assaulting
the get-away-van.  Apparently that act was considered discriminiatory 
against the burglars, or unacceptable because of the mental trauma it put 
the criminals through or something.    He got off, so did the scumbags,
not enough evidence that it was them or something, or maybe their bad 
childhoods excused them.  I don't know, but the whole thing was backwards.
It was the criminals that were being protected by the law, not the normal
people.   I don't know how the incident was reported in the paper, probably 
"poor blacks attacked by Whitey's angry mob again"   %^)

	The local government there is influenced by an unholy 
coalition of lefty PC control freaks and fundy religious nutburgers, which 
leads to the unlikely and unlikable combination of pro censorship, pro
family values puritanism and mushy headed commilib idiocy.  All in one 
city.   It's a nice place.

Jim Del Vecchio