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Man takes city to Supreme Court over (Chicago) handgun ban
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Feb 27, 2010 02:12pm |
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| Media | TV News - WABC Channel 7 |
| News Date | Saturday, February 27, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A grandfather is taking his 2nd Amendment fight to the U.S. Supreme Court in what is expected to be a landmark case. Otis McDonald, 76, is suing the city of Chicago over its handgun ban.
McDonald says he wants the right to protect himself from gang members who threaten the Morgan Park neighborhood where he lives.
McDonald's case will be argued before the nation's high court next week. ABC 7's Paul Meincke talked with McDonald.
McDonald is a retired maintenance engineer who moved to Chicago in the early 1950s with $18 in his pocket. At this point in his life, he says, he surely didn't set out to make history, but that's clearly where he finds himself.
"I have a strong drive to do what I can to right what I see is wrong," said McDonald.
For the better part of four decades, McDonald has lived in Morgan Park. He and his wife raised their family here. Ten years after they first moved in, Chicago enacted its handgun ban, an idea McDonald -- at the time -- applauded.
But, in the years that have followed, McDonald says his neighborhood has changed. More crime. He has been broken into three times, and he has long since concluded that the gun ban is a bust.
"It doesn't work," McDonald said. "It doesn't work simply, because the senior citizens, the law-abiding citizens like myself, is being victimized by saying you can't have a handgun in your own home. Why? Tell me what I can't have in my own home. I'm not out robbing nobody."
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