CMHA Official Calls Others "Knuckleheads."

In Columbus, Cleveland has long been known as the mistake on the lake. Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority officials seem determined to prove the truth of that epithet. CMHA officials object in the most publicly insulting terms to federal legislation that would require public housing projects to honor residents' Second Amendment right to keep firearms in one's own dwelling, even if that dwelling is public housing, according to a report in the Columbus Dispatch (note: link will probably go bad in five days). CMHA's police chief Andres "Andy" Gonzalez called Federal lawmakers "knuckleheads" for proposing to give people their constitutional rights.

If the Second Amendment were not clear enough, the Ohio Constitution is even clearer:

The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.

I suggest that the CMHA has its own knucklehead as chief of police. It seems to me only a knucklehead would believe that people are safer in their homes if they have no means of self-defense. After the history and experience of gun bans throughout the United States, it has become abundantly clear that gun bans make people less safe, if anything. However, knuckleheads don't need facts. History and logic don't matter.

If you ban guns, criminals won't have guns. Yeah, right.

I suppose, because we are addressing public housing, the residents should have the only the rights of slaves (i.e., no actual rights, only privileges granted by Massa government).

Of course this is nothing new for Cleveland. Cleveland is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the Buckeye Firearms Association because Cleveland refuses to obey Ohio law on concealed carry permits. Read about it here and here.

Mistake on the lake. City of knuckleheads. All too true