{"id":4450,"date":"2011-05-05T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/05\/05\/maybe-he-should-apply-for-concealed\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:27","slug":"maybe-he-should-apply-for-concealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4450","title":{"rendered":"Maybe He Should Apply For A Concealed Carry Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17650,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com\\\/5201760-417\\\/mayor-daley-keeping-bodyguards-after-leaving-office-appropriate.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com\\\/5201760-417\\\/mayor-daley-keeping-bodyguards-after-leaving-office-appropriate.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17651,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com\\\/news\\\/sneed\\\/5188625-452\\\/daley-requests-bodyguard-detail-after-leaving-office.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com\\\/news\\\/sneed\\\/5188625-452\\\/daley-requests-bodyguard-detail-after-leaving-office.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/5201760-417\/mayor-daley-keeping-bodyguards-after-leaving-office-appropriate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Richard M. Daley is leaving office he wants to keep a few perks of the office<\/a>. Namely, he wants to keep at least three (and preferrably five) of his Chicago Police Department bodyguards to protect him in retirement. It is also reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/sneed\/5188625-452\/daley-requests-bodyguard-detail-after-leaving-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed<\/a> that Daley is requesting two cars to be put at his disposal &#8211; one for him and one for his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the local Fraternal Order of Police took issue with Daley&#8217;s request for these bodyguards. It should be noted that the Chicago PD is now over 2,300 officers short of its authorized strength.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The head of the police union called the mayor\u2019s request for bodyguards after he leaves office ill-timed and \u201cridiculously excessive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s another example of excessive use of manpower and resources during an extreme shortage,\u201d said Michael Shields, president of the Fraternal Order of Police.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Daley, as might be expected, disagreed and said his request was &#8220;appropriate&#8221;. His predecessor, Harold Washington, died in office and Washington&#8217;s predecessor, Jane Byrne, wasn&#8217;t given a bodyguard when she left office. I guess appropriate is in the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d normally suggest that if Mayor Daley is concerned for his safety and that of his family then he should apply for a concealed carry permit. However, due to the efforts of Mr. Daley and his Chicago Democratic Machine, the State of Illinois still doesn&#8217;t have concealed carry. And if Governor Pat Quinn &#8211; another politician from the Chicago Democratic Machine &#8211; is true to this word, HB 148 will be vetoed even if it does pass the Illinois House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Life can be tough out in the real world. Daley&#8217;s efforts to keep the people of Chicago and the State of Illinois unarmed and defenseless&nbsp;are now coming back to bite him. As they say, payback is a bitch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Mayor Richard M. Daley is leaving office he wants to keep a few perks of the office.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,4299,4344],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-hb-148","tag-mayor-daley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}