Rats!

During the last week of June, in an audit of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's rodent control efforts, the city comptroller chastised officials for taking a month, on average, to respond to rat sightings.

But the rats in charge have apparently unlimited resources to trump up false charges against gun dealers.

"Gun Violence Claims Another Teen"

Nope, no bias or agenda at the propaganda-free Associated Press.

They're "authorized journalists," you know.

Loopy Dennis Rebuffed

(Last Letter)

Regarding Dennis Dwyer's letter of July 3 ["Disarm 2nd Amendment"]: In case he has not noticed, Chicago has, for all intents and purposes, already repealed the Second Amendment.

Hernando Zavala strikes back.

Loopy Dennis

(2nd Letter)

Rather than debating no-brainer issues such as whether assault weapons should be banned, it is time to go for the jugular. It is time to open a serious discussion on repealing the Second Amendment.

Dennis Dwyer,
South Loop

Yeah, Dennis. Go for the jugular.

Oh, you want someone else to do it for you?

[Thanks to HZ]

We're the Only Ones Supplying Enough

A service weapon stolen from a D.C. police lieutenant has been tied to a spate of crimes in which at least six people, four of them teenagers, were shot in recent months, police records show.

Somebody should sue the manufacturer.

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We're the Only Ones Paternal Enough

A boy of 11 died after he was accidentally stabbed in the heart by his police officer father during a "play-fight", an inquest was told yesterday.

Yeah, I do that with my kids all the time, too. What father doesn't?

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