Massad Ayoob
MEET OTIS McDONALD
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
I spent part of yesterday with Otis McDonald, the lead named plaintiff in McDonald v. Chicago, now under deliberation by the United States Supreme Court. When the Second Amendment Foundation mounted this challenge to the Chicago handgun ban, they could not have made a better choice. Mr. McDonald is your quintessential hard-working, self-made American.
Beginning life as the son of a sharecropper in Mississippi, he served in the United States Army, spent thirty years working for a university, and is now trying to finish his life in peaceful retirement with his spouse. However, the Chicago neighborhood where he has owned a home since the 1970s has been increasingly blighted by dope dealers, gang-bangers, and the sort of punks who harass and harm the elderly. He has been threatened on the street, and his home has been broken into numerous times.
Those who say, “You don’t need handguns because you can always buy a shotgun for home defense” should sit down with an open mind and listen to someone such as Mr. McDonald. “I’m 76 years old,” he points out. “Yes, I own long guns…but how long do you think it will take me to get up, get out of bed, and get my hands on a shotgun if someone is breaking in through the bedroom window?”
Justice Scalia wrote something similar in the majority opinion in Heller v. District of Columbia, which confirmed that the Second Amendment was an individual right, and set the stage for McDonald, which will determine whether the states are bound by the Heller decision.
Otis McDonald’s compelling words will soon be posted on the Pro-Arms Podcast, http://proarmspodcast.com. One of the last questions I asked him was what sort of handgun he planned to acquire if, as almost all SCOTUS watchers predict, the case that bears his name results in an opinion that shoots down the nearly 30-year-old Chicago handgun ban. His answer? A 1911 model .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol…a gun he became familiar with as a soldier defending his country.
This guy is one of my personal heroes. Otis McDonald. Here's the Google in case you don't know who he is:
https://www.google.com/search?q=otis+mc ... =532&dpr=1
He's the face of the individual that gets ground under the heel of Liberal Authoritarians like Rahm Emanuel (mayor of Chicago and former Obama Henchman)
Chicago really was DRAGGED KICKING AND SCREAMING into licensing defensive firearms and have (to the best of my knowledge) allowed permits for less than a year. There has to be pro-constitution people charting the effect of armed citizens on the Thugs-Gone-Wild in the neighborhoods of Chicago. In five years we'll see if "More Guns, Less Crime" works. (I think so)
Personally I think Chicago is a Hopeless Cauldron of Evil. The postings of the 4th Precinct Crime Reports on this forum gives you an look at a Day-in-The-Hood in North Minneapolis...
I've been reading them for 4-5 years and you get a picture of struggling families being victimized by Evil Zombies. A 12 year old girl goes out on her bike and then runs home crying to her mom because 3 14 year old Boy-thugs stole it from her.
I want to hang this around the necks of Liberal Politicians. Like Betsy-Wetsy Hodges the girl-mayor of Minneapolis but I'm busy doing other things.
Anyway the Gas station video shows you how quickly something can come out of the shadows and possibly end your life. I get my gas on Franklin Ave in Minneapolis usually at night and I continually scope the shadows while pumping.
It looks like the Off-Duty Sheriff Sargent went right for a head shot...Who trains for that? I always practice 2 to the heart, 2 to the head. (easier to not-miss) He (it appears) got a 'one shot kill' with a bullet to CNS.
And it looked like he drew from a pocket holster in a rear pocket (S&W Shield 9mm / .40 ?)
An entrepreneur in that Chicago neighborhood could offer a service to have an armed attendant pump the gas for you with armed guards with shotguns stationed at the entrances. A few cents more per gallon and you don't even have to leave your car.
