Posted on 08/24/2007 1:35:24 PM PDT by neverdem
(URBANA)---Some people in Champaign County are afraid their guns will be taken away. That's why pro-gun advocates are trying to get a resolution passed that would promise the 2nd amendment would be protected. People say they feel Chicago and Cook County is trying to run the rest of the state of Illinois. That's because Cook County put a gun ban into effect this past February on long guns, like rifles and shotguns. The ban says people can't even have the guns in their own home. Some people in Champaign County feel that's unconstitutional, and they went to the county board meeting Thursday night to speak up before the ban moves south.
"I don't understand how one county can do that to their citizens." Says Guns Rights Advocate Valinda Rowe "Then turn around and try to do it to the rest of the state. We've got to take a stand."
They did try and take that stand as around a dozen people spoke at the meeting, urging county board members to pass a resolution, saying Cook County's ban is unconstitutional. They'll have to wait though, because the board tabled the issue.
29 counties in the state have already passed an anti-gun ban resolution, people at the meeting hope Champaign County becomes the 30th to do so.
And nobody in Cook County challenged that in court?
Apparently, not yet, it's their AWB. Handguns are already verboten in Chicago, IIRC, just like D.C.
They must be using the Giuliani Edition of the U.S. Constitution.
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
NOW they are getting worried.
It is getting late in the day to get around to taking countermeasures. Soon it will not be by little duck nibbles, the nanny-state authorities are going to be tearing out huge chunks, like a slashing attack by a Tyrannosaurus rex.
This my rifle. This my ‘gun.’ This is for fight’n. This is for fun.
The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
If Illinois has a problem with our Constitution, they ought to secede and become part of another country. What am I missing here?
An unarmed citizenry is a passive citizenry.
Why? The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with state laws.
"That's because Cook County put a gun ban into effect this past February on long guns, like rifles and shotguns."
To clarify, it's an AWB. It was constitutional when done by Congress under the second amendment. Under the Illinois constitution it's a no-brainer.
Time to bears arms against the government!
When I read that legal nonsense, I knew it was you before I read your name. Adios
If Illinois has a problem with our Constitution, they ought to secede and become part of another country. What am I missing here?
Sic Ted on ‘em. ;)
It’s not the whole state but Chicago and Cook County.The population is so large in Chicago and Cook County that they can use their leverage to try to run the whole state, which is mostly rural. I know people from Southern Illinois and they are very gun loving and conservative in their parts. Chicago is a cancer on the great state of Illinois. Take away Chicago and you would have a nice conservative red state.
“It was constitutional when done by Congress under the second amendment”
No, it wasn’t.
there is a ban on shotguns in Chicago ?
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