{"id":116199,"date":"2026-04-14T17:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116199"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:47:33","slug":"116199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116199","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Elitist Chicago Doc: Average Citizens Don\u2019t Need Armed Self-Defense Because the Poor \u2018Don\u2019t Benefit\u2019 From Guns<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Anthony Douglas<\/a>, the smug University of Chicago trauma resident and arrogant mastermind\u00a0behind Illinois\u2019 Responsibility in Firearms Legislation (RIFL) Act<\/a>, stepped up in a legislative hearing last week and belched up a heaping helping of elitist bile blended with a soup\u00e7on clinical detachment: \u201cI think poor people don\u2019t benefit from owning firearms,\u201d he pronounced.<\/p>\n

What the little people need, the good doctor says, is more \u201ceducation and resources.\u201d Translation: more tax dollars funneled to \u201cnon-profits\u201d with little to no return on the taxpayers\u2019 investment.<\/p>\n

Besides, the physician and gun-control researcher claims it isn\u2019t good guys or gals with guns who stop evil predators\u2026all evidence to the contrary<\/a>. As such, it really should be harder for the poors to get their hands on firearms to defend themselves and their families.<\/p>\n

His solution, then, is pricing guns out of reach of law-abiding, responsible citizens who lack bodyguards, private security details, or live in gated enclaves. In Murder City, USA\u2014Chicago\u2014where gang thugs roam free, that\u2019s not social policy, that\u2019s sadistic malpractice.<\/p>\n

Was this clown high? Does he have a full punchcard at the local dispensary? Because this delusional drivel sounds like it was baked in a dorm room cloud of weed.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s drag his elitist fantasy out into the reality that is Chicago, the city that\u2019s been mercilessly documented by\u00a0Wirepoints.org<\/a>\u00a0through FOIA records<\/a>\u00a0from the Chicago Police Department itself.<\/p>\n

High-priority 911 calls\u2014Priority Level 1 and 2, the ones defined as \u201cimminent threat to life, bodily injury, or major property damage\u201d\u2014are the exact emergencies Chicagoans face every day: shots fired, person shot, assault in progress, armed robbery, domestic battery. In 2019, before the progressive crime wave fully metastasized, 19% of those urgent calls had \u201cno officers available\u201d for immediate response.<\/p>\n

By 2021, Wirepoints found that number had exploded to 52%\u2014406,829 high-priority incidents in which dispatchers literally had zero cops to send. In 2022 it hit roughly 60%.<\/p>\n

Through all of 2023,\u00a056% of high-priority calls<\/a>\u2014437,000 of them\u2014sat in backlog with no units available. Even in 2024, through mid-May, getting a response was still a coin-flip 50%: 127,000 out of 256,000 urgent calls in which nobody came.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not \u201cdelayed,\u201d that\u2019s \u201cwe have no police available to send to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wirepoints documented thousands of \u201cassaults in progress,\u201d \u201cbatteries in progress,\u201d \u201cperson with a gun,\u201d and \u201cshots fired\u201d calls where callers were told to shelter in place while the city\u2019s response system collapsed. In some districts, entire shifts passed with zero proactive patrol time because every available cop was already buried in backlogs that stretched 30 minutes, an hour, sometimes as long as four hours. Chicago\u2019s own inspector general has long since confirmed the department\u00a0can\u2019t even log arrival times<\/em>\u00a0for huge chunks of emergency calls.<\/p>\n

So Dr. Douglas\u2019s prescription isn\u2019t compassion, it\u2019s pure, venomous elitist contempt. He (allegedly) stares at blood-soaked gurneys every shift, but still demands that we disarm the victims instead of the criminals\u2014or fix the catastrophic policies that left over half of emergency calls with \u201cno units available.\u201d He wants to tax gun makers into oblivion so that self-defense becomes a rich man\u2019s luxury that only hypocrites like him can afford.<\/p>\n

Spare us the sanctimonious impacted fecal matter, Doctor. The poor in Chicago aren\u2019t sipping lattes in faculty lounges debating \u201cresources.\u201d They\u2019re barricading their doors and praying they make it to and from work safely and survive day to day while the failed system in which you have so much faith leaves them twisting in the wind.<\/p>\n

They have and need the same constitutional right to armed self-defense that you take for granted from the comfort of your bubble. In the real Chicago, where cops aren\u2019t available to show up half the time, that arrogance and contempt leaves innocent people to be victimized and slaughtered.<\/p>\n

The Center Square<\/em>\u00a0has the full testimony<\/a>. Read it and seethe . . .<\/p>\n

A proposed bill gun owners say will price lower income buyers out of the market continues to get attention at the Illinois state capitol.<\/p>\n

Opponents of\u00a0House Bill 3320<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0estimate the Responsibility in Firearms Legislation, or RIFL Act could tack on thousands of dollars in taxes to one firearm purchase, and that would price lower income people out of exercising their Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

Advocates for the bill, like Dr. Anthony Douglas, said there\u2019d be minimal added cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think poor people don\u2019t benefit from owning firearms,\u201d Douglas said during a House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force subject matter hearing of the bill Wednesday. \u201cI think more people benefit from access to education, access to resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Harrisburg, said that\u2019s an elitist opinion and people of lesser means want to be able to protect themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees that to them,\u201d Windhorst said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s really not our place to say, \u2018well, we think you\u2019re better off not having this thing,\u2019 which is the tone of this committee.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elitist Chicago Doc: Average Citizens Don\u2019t Need Armed Self-Defense Because the Poor \u2018Don\u2019t Benefit\u2019 From Guns Dr. Anthony Douglas, the smug University of Chicago trauma resident and arrogant mastermind\u00a0behind Illinois\u2019 Responsibility in Firearms Legislation (RIFL) Act, stepped up in a legislative hearing last week and belched up a heaping helping of elitist bile blended with … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29,108,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-safety","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-moron","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116200,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116199\/revisions\/116200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}