Daylight armored car robberies are common in the movies and on television. In truth, many long-running cop shows feature more armored car robberies during the day than many departments ever see.
And one would think that if Chicago's gun control worked, they'd never see one. Well, whoops.
In fact, while such robberies make great television, they're probably not the wisest decision a group of criminals can make. And, as I said, if gun control worked, they'd be impossible in the Windy City.
And yet, here we are.
Federal agents are searching for a crew of men who are accused of robbing an armored truck at gunpoint outside a Chicago-area bank in broad daylight.
The robbery happened just before 4:30 p.m. Friday in Blue Island, Illinois, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in Chicago.
The group was still at large as of this writing.
Now, all these guys have handguns. Under Illinois law, they can't lawfully buy those without a FOID card, which I doubt they had. Also, the men were described as being late teens to early 20s. If they're teens of any kind, they can't buy such a firearm lawfully anyway.
I mean, it's almost like gun control simply doesn't work as advertised, and criminals just get guns to do whatever they want regardless.
What's wrong with the world when you can't find good, decent, law-abiding criminals?
Of course, if gun control laws worked, then the laws against robbing armored cars would work, too. Alas, we see how that turned out.
No matter what laws you put on the books, you'll never prevent the truly determined from doing what they want. Look at laws against drugs, prostitution, robbery, sexual assault, and so on for further examples. These are illegal pretty much everywhere to some degree or another--even Nevada, which has legal prostitution, restricts it via licenses with strict requirements--and yet, they're also common.
What laws do is give you an avenue to punish behavior. That can sometimes act as a deterrent for this behavior, of course, but not among those who see going to prison as a rite of passage.
For those, you're never going to deter anything. Every roadblock you try to throw up is just a mild annoyance they have to work around, and can because they're not going through the legal system.
But on guns, what happens is that the law-abiding souls who want to protect themselves and others are the ones who feel the brunt of this. They have to go through the obstacles, have to clear the hurdles, and then see their choices artificially suppressed by a state that thinks it knows better than they do.
If gun control worked as described, we wouldn't see daylight armored car robberies in the Chicago area. We wouldn't see gang shootings and we wouldn't see a thousand other horrors that descend upon our cities.
But we do. We see them because the evil who roam the Earth will never be content to just be evil in the privacy of their own home, never displaying it to the public at large.
They show it with every breath, and they will injure or kill anyone who enrages them. They'll rob, cheat, and steal. They'll hurt people just because they love it.
And gun control laws actually empower them, more often than not.
Chicago and Illinois as a whole illustrate on a regular basis why gun control doesn't work. Why it will never work.
But, unfortunately, those there will continue to push this failed policy and likely cite things like this robbery as an example of why they need gun control, all without the self-awareness of what they're pushing absolutely and completely failing and that doing the same thing over and over again like this is the very definition of insanity.
