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"If they [the Supreme Court] think that's the answer, then they're greatly mistaken. Then why don't we do away with the court system and go back to the Old West, you have a gun and I have a gun, and we'll settle it in the streets if that's they're thinking."
Chicago Mayor Mayor Richard Daley
Mayor Daley ewas speaking after the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the right of U.S. citizens to own guns.

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