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Not long ago Mayor Daley was screaming for more gun control laws. Actually he
wants all law abiding gun owners weapons removed if he could have his way. So a
flurry of anti -2nd Amendment bills were proposed by Chicago Democrats in the
Illinois legislature. Everything from registering this to banning that and not
being allowed to own or transfer such and such.
All bills were stated to decrease crime and gun violence by their sponsors, but
in reality they only created a major hassle for law abiding people to own or buy
firearms, while the criminals watched their TV’s and laughed and laughed at such
stupid proposals. There isn’t a criminal one or gang member that believes any of
this will stop him from continuing in the same old ways, while more of his
intended victims become disarmed or became easier prey thru such legislation.
Before we would see some of these bills actually make it to the House or Senate
to be voted on. Lately though, it seems like after a committee vote and passage,
that’s where they lay. Could it be that more legislators that used to be for
more gun laws, have realized that they just don’t work and also do not solve any
crime problems? This of course doesn’t mean we should let our guard down &
relax. Someone is always trying to take your right away!
We have plenty of laws to cover illegal use of firearms. Does the State’s
attorney in Cook County enforce or mandate the punishment due for disobeying
them? NO!
Why when they arrest someone for using or carrying a gun illegally, they have to
arrest him 5 or 6 more times before they really mandate punishment? They just
keep letting them go till he has a murder charge. Ah. Now they got him! Yes you
got him, but it had to take someone else’s life before you really did something
about him! It’s amazing if they even catch him.
Then Daley holds another news conference and of course blames the gun again, but
keeps quiet about his other six arrests, so the people don’t blame them for not
putting him away sooner. The city is an embarrassment to the rest of the state
of Illinois, whose citizens are armed and don’t have one fifth the crime
problem! There is a law in place that mandates 10 years in prison for every gun
sold illegally. Wow three guns is thirty years!! No, instead they talk about
legislation to stop private sales of guns. What for? There’s one in place
already covering what they are concerned about, but does he serve thirty years?
NO! The back of his hand is crimson red from the judges slapping it so many
times!
Could it be that our state legislators look at 48 other states in the union
where millions are carrying guns on their hips through conceal carry laws and
see crime and murder dropping at an ever increasing rate? Could it be possible
that what John Lott and the rest of us have been saying for a long time—MORE
GUNS, LESS CRIME—could actually be true?
Why is it that the suburbs of Chicago and the rest of the state where people are
allowed to be totally armed do not have the same problems? Maybe criminals don’t
like looking down the barrel of a handgun when it’s pointing their way! Maybe
they are thinking twice that if I attempt to rob this guy and he is carrying a
legal gun on his hip, I just might get shot?
You see a where a person is allowed to carry a gun on his person, he or she only
has a remote chance of being confronted by a criminal, then someone heading home
in Chicago that has an invisible sign on his back saying, “Pick me, I can’t hurt
you or stop you and I am totally unarmed thanks to our mayor”. Could it be that
our legislators are starting to realize you don’t stop criminals by disarming
law abiding citizens?
In November this state may elect a Governor that is for concealed carry and will
sign it into law. The people of this state may be looking real close at the
people in office in Springfield that do back conceal carry and those running
against the ones that are against it. Then they may decide it’s time for
Illinois crime and murder rates to go down by arming it’s citizens with conceal
carry and electing enough people that will go along with that Governor to see it
finally happen!
Could it be? It’s time for the people of Illinois to decide whether it will be!
Could it be that legislators are realizing the impact that concealed carry
would have on this state’s crime and murder rate? I hope with all my heart that
they are and that it will be finally passed into law in this state!
This article is the opinion of the author and not the official position of the
ISRA.
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