Oak Park Intolerance

The Tribune with more local reaction to the Supreme Court decision overturning handgun bans. Nastiness from those sanctimonious liberals, who dump the PC talk when it suits them:

The leader of a gun rights group is asking for an apology from an Oak Park village administrator for comments he made after the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban.

In a June 27 interview with National Public Radio, Oak Park Village Manager Tom Barwin said, "It's just completely befuddling that our Supreme Court would be in alliance with the gangbangers."

Barwin's comment drew criticism from Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, based in Bellevue, Wash.

"We find it a bit appalling," Gottlieb said Monday, "and, quite frankly, that kind of rhetoric is insulting."

But then liberals are notoriously intolerant of their neighbors, not to mention grouchier. And how about some real compassion? Gun control increases crime, Oak Park. You should be grateful for gun rights groups exercising their civil liberties to advocate for a safer community.

Wilmette has suspended its law pending review.

UPDATE: Related on Chicago's nanny state mentality and Obama. Jim Geraghty, NRO picks up the Reason piece that appeared in the Trib, plus Mary Schmich's column.