Trotter - now it's his "job"

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The spin is on, and Trotter's story is about to take off.

Trotter was arrested at O'Hare Airport, after a small handgun and bullets were found in his carry-on luggage.

First news reports said the gun was the one that Illinois Sen. Donne Trotter carried as an armed security guard.

Now, it's that he carried it as part of his job.

The Chicago Tribune delves into it, but a link on the online site goes to an article involving Cook County Board Chairman Toni Preckwinkle, not Trotter. Watch the headline "Gun arrest raises questions on Trotter's job at security firm ..." on www.chicagotribune.com for a corrected link.

What do you think Trotter's real job at Allpoints Security & Detective, Inc. is? If he really is an armed security guard, he'd better get himself a "real" gun with some stopping power and save his peashooter for a back-up. Not sure a .25 cal. Beretta is even good for a back-up weapon, although Beretta is a fine weapon.

If you read this morning's Northwest Herald article with a jaundiced eye, you can how fast the story is heading south by reading carefully the comment attributed to a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney, who said, “He did not realize it was still in his bag.” Since when is it up to the prosecutor to let the defendant off the hook.

Thanks to Lorraine Scaduto, I think we can see where the case is headed. Right down the drain.

Well, maybe he never should have been charged in the first place. If he didn't realize the gun was still in his bag, then he didn't "knowingly" try to board.

And isn't it a Federal law, rather than a State law, to try to board an aircraft with a gun?