We don’t want to take your guns away, they said. Just those awful “assault rifles,” they said. Everything else will be fine, they said.

Yeah, right. Ask the gun owners in Deerfield, Illinois, about that.

On Monday, the Village Board of Trustees of Deerfield, a northern Chicago suburb, voted unanimously to ban “assault weapons,” and those who own them have until June 13 to get rid of them. Otherwise they’ll face a penalty of — get this — between $250 to $1000 per day. That is, says village attorney Matthew Rose, until there is “compliance.”

Yes, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Furthermore, this new ban is also a continuation of a previous 2013 ordinance that regulated storage of those sort of guns.

Oh, but there’s no slippery slope here at all, right?

And it’s not just those eeevill AR-15 rifles — some handguns are going to be banned as well.

Deerfield resident Larry Nordal, opposing this gun ban, spoke out at the village meeting:

“The ordinance to store firearms was only passed for one reason. That was to have an amendatory vehicle that could be used in the future for just this purpose so you could banish assorted firearms in the future. First it’s going to be assault rifles. (There will be) new bans in the future. It’s just a matter of time.”

But Nordal’s opinion fell flat. Deerfield’s mayor, Harriet Rosenthal, said, “Enough is enough. . . There is no place here for assault weapons.”

Every “village” needs its idiot, I guess.

And, of course, the children spoke out, too. Because now we must listen to their wisdom, apparently.

A Deerfield high school senior wants even more action against guns, not only locally, but at the national level too:

“This is our generation’s fight. We’re going to keep fighting and this is part of it. Change happens gradually step by step. The fight does not end at the borders of our village.”

Well, she’s partly right. Brainwashing does happen gradually.

So why does the little “village” of Deerfield need this assault weapons ban? Is it a poverty-ridden community with out-of-control gun crime?

Let’s look at the stats, shall we?

Deerfield is wealthy, like having some of the most expensive homes in the nation. The median home value is nearly $564,000. Moreover, the median household income in Deerfield is nearly $144,000, more than twice that of the national income of a little over $55,000. Furthermore, over 91% of the residents are white, with over 95% of residents employed in white collar jobs.

On top of that, Deerfield is also a “village of artists,” with more residents working in media than 90% of the U.S.

As for crime rates: Deerfield is safer than 82% of U.S. communities of all sizes.

So what’s their problem, aside from a self-obsessed need to virtue-signal?

Well, politically speaking, I bet you can figure out how Deerfield leans. That’s right: its House member in the Illinois General Assembly is Democrat Scott Drury. The state Senator is Julie Morrison, who is — you guessed it — another Democrat.

Well, that says a lot, doesn’t it? Deerfield doesn’t have a crime problem, or a race problem. It has a Limousine Liberal problem, which means that the village chiefs are infected with moral superiority. They know what’s best for everyone. Even if it means taking away some of the rights of those who have committed no crimes.