Would Governors push for “stricter DUI/DWI laws” if they lost their chauffeur? If they had to drive back to the mansion after the holiday office party not in the back of the limo, but in the driver’s seat?

Would Congress vote for “healthcare reform” if they were subject to the same medical plans they hope to burden us with? If healthcare is going to be ‘Universal’ shouldn’t it be universal? You know, “One for all and all for one”?

Would  Mayors of our largest cities push for “tougher gun laws” if they lost their armed bodyguards that protect them 24/7?

The U.S. Supreme court will begin today deciding the Constitutionality of the Chicago Gun Ban. Forgetting for the moment the 2nd and 10th Amendment issues, I wondering about Otis McDonald, a terrified 76 year old Chicagoan who lives in fear in a crime-prone area of the city. Mr. McDonald is asking the Supreme Court to allow him, basically, to keep a handgun in his home for protection. He reasons, that since the Justices overturned the Washington, DC gun ban in Heller vs. DC, his chances are pretty good. Local officials see it differently.

According to Mayor Dayley, “We have the right for health and safety to pass reasonable laws dealing with the protection and health of the people of the city of Chicago.”

I’m not suggesting, I don’t think, that Mayor Daley should philosophically recuse himself from the argument, I’m simply wondering if the Mayor has any clue what it is like to fall asleep in fear. Isolated from the pain and anguish of late-night home invasions, guarded by a platoon of armed Chicago Police officers around the clock, he lives is the same city as Mr. McDonald yet in a totally different world.