Governor Quinn’s idea to give cities the choice to regulate concealed-carry reminds me of Wyatt Earp in Dodge City posting that all guns are to be left at his office until visitors leave town.
With Quinn’s legislation as law, one would have to remove the firearm, then put it back on and each town would have to post whether or not you would be allowed to carry your weapon in their town or face arrest as you traveled from town to town.
This legislation is simply from another in a long line of Chicago politicians and left-wing nut gun control extremists designed to place more barriers against a law abiding citizen’s right to bear arms in Illinois, particularly in Cook County, as Judge Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit ordered the state to do in 40 days.
This is the most unworkable, harassing, concealed-carry idea ever put on the table in the United States and its implementation is purposely meant to restrict our second amendment rights at the whim of a municipality, a sheriff or a home rule city.
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Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, reiterated his position last week that cities with so-called “home rule” decision making authority should be able to decide public gun possession within their limits.”
Another reason to oppose home rule – but that’s another post!
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“There are those who want to override that and I don’t think that’s a good idea. I think everybody should have a say in something as important as gun safety.”
How about law abiding citizens, governor, who wish to defend themselves?
It may be, however, that he’s mostly concerned about Chicago, adding later that the “need to battle for that principle” should apply to “at least major parts of our state that have been really challenged by gun violence.”
I didn’t know guns were violent, Governor? Words mean things – that’s why the governor, and others of his ilk, use words to conflict emotion, rather than to clarify an issue based on evidence and facts.
The law must be the same throughout the state – that is the only way a concealed-carry law could work – but Governor Quinn doesn’t want it to work.
He has his orders from Chicago, so the rest of the state will have to follow a municipal patchwork of laws across the state, which might basically meet the ruling of the federal court of appeals, while rendering its implementation meaningless.
I don’t know about you, but with 500 murders in Chicago last year, I don’t want that city establishing the standards of my right to protect myself.
It seems as if the Chicago authorities have arrived too late to make a difference in most of these shootings and the right to defend oneself should not be abridged.
In his ruling, Judge Posner cited past decisions in declaring self-defense a fundamental right. Wouldn’t Quinn’s decision, leaving the choice for concealed-carry up to a municipality, actually give or deny one’s second amendment rights based on what town you live in or travel through?
Quinn’s idea for concealed-carry is simply unworkable and it’s meant to be unworkable.