Chicago Tribune Puts a 'Magic Bullet' to Their Heads and Pulls the Trigger

During Thanksgiving, I spent the holiday w/ my mom and sister's family gorging myself on food and watching the idiots in Chicago wreck holiday decorations downtown.  I also got the pleasure of reading THE stupidest editorial in the Chicago Tribune in some time, written by an " associate professor at John Marshall Law School".  The article is behind a paywall but if you google 'Chicago tribune magic bullet' it comes right up.

Imagine if the first bullet in a cop's chamber were a blank bullet. Would this approach save lives?
What if a police department adopted this approach as standard procedure. Or, better yet, if legislation mandated this requirement for state and local police departments. Would it help save lives?
Police in Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and New Zealand typically do not carry weapons at all when they are patrolling the streets. Surely, crimes in those countries are no less threatening than what we experience in the U.S.
The idea is not to ban guns from the police departments here. Rather, it is to require that the first bullet in the chamber not be a live bullet.

The rest is a near incoherent rant defeding violent criminals and attacking various police. 

What this article proves is that it doesn't take much to be an 'associate professor' at Marshall Law School. 

It also shows that Mr. Acevedo either has absolutely no idea how a gun works and/or wants more police killed in the line of duty. 

I'm sure every gunnie who read the first line immediately thought "WTF?!!, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard".  Beyond the ignorance on function, just imagine Joe Gangbanger when he figures out that he can charge any cop because the first round will just be a 'BANG'. 

This is the state of the media and academia today.

Bill Maher's Double Standards @billmaher

So, a few days ago Bill Maher went off on @sswipe CA Lt Governor Newsom for his anti-gun nonsense.

Maher responded, “Really? So if you were in a restaurant and a crazy gunman came in, you wouldn’t want to have a gun? You’d rather just be shot?”
Newsom responded by suggesting that citizens without proper training might just start shooting in response and make things worse. They might get nervous and “start pointing the trigger or pointing a gun and shooting.”
Again, Maher countered by trying to get Newsom to listen to himself. Maher said, “But hasn’t the worst thing already happened? A crazed madman who’s bent on killing everyone? How could it get worse?”

Now why would I have a problem w/ this when I completely agree?  because just a few months ago he went on a rant against American firearm owners calling them "a bunch of f&cking rednecks".

Guess what Billy-boy, you elitist prick, the same people that are more likely to be the ones in the restaurants legally carrying firearms are the same ones you think are too stupid to own them.  It won't be your Hollywood/television friends (although maybe their paid, armed guards).

So which is it Bill, do people carry guns or not?  Or is it that you just like to hear yourself talk?