More Daley (nearly daily) madness from Chicago

Gun rights activists were rightly outraged when Christian Trejbal's editorial in the Roanoke Times linked to an online database containing the names and addresses of every concealed carry licensee in Virginia. Under the guise of "open government," Trejbal and his newspaper grossly violated the privacy, and compromised the safety, of well over 100,000 law abiding Virginians.

Well, Chicago's Mayor Daley would like to outdo him. When forced to acknowledge that his pet proposals to outlaw so-called "assault weapons," and to implement a gun rationing "one gun a month" scheme would have done nothing to prevent the Virginia Tech killings (which were done without "assault weapons," and in a state that has just the "one gun a month" law he is pushing), Daley thought of another idea.

Now he wants to mandate that every time a firearm sale is made, the buyer's identity must be made available on the Internet. The massive breach of privacy aside, he apparently didn't bother explaining how that would have helped prevent Monday's killings.

Too bad--that would have been an interesting explanation, I'm sure.