[2nd amendment mama]

Ping!

[wastedyears]

When I saw SAS, I thought it was the Special Air Service.

My mistake

Get ‘em, ladies

[coramdeo]

Unfortunately, “gun free zone” = only criminals have guns.

[tsowellfan]

Amen to that. We may also want to stop sheltering our youths from the real world of dissapointment and hard ships that life can bring. I think this also plays a part in the kids going psycho these days.

[endthematrix]

Contact Governor Rod Blagojevich

Office of the Governor
207 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
Phone: 217-782-0244 or 312-814-2121
TTY: 888-261-3336
http://www.illinois.gov/helpdesk/contact.cfm

[TYVets]

Ping

[facedown]

ping

[Tunehead54]

Ping! ;-)

[Tunehead54]

Oops! Make that a bump/ping! ;-)

[freemike]

Another mentally ill shooter.

This is another problem that, yes, the government and libs, have caused. Emptying the State Hospitals of the mentally ill!

I am familiar with the mental health system due to my line of work. They have literally dumped people with severe problems into the community under the guise of compassion! There are some people who want to eliminate the very word "diagnosis." It is now being compared to racism. The thinking is, if someone is taking their meds, then they are normal and no longer ill so should not be diagnosed with a mental illness.

This is no joke. I wished I had the site that I could link to here.

[Graybeard58]

Not only is the campus of NIU a gun-free zone, the entire state of Illinois is a de facto gun-free zone.

Worth repeating for anybody traveling in Illinois with a gun concealed on their person, Illinois does not recognize any other states concealed carry permit.

It is a felony in Illinois.

Not certain but I believe that Wisconsin is the same.

[Malone LaVeigh]

I had a conversation about gun free zones with a lib aquaintance not too long ago. He feared that allowing citizens to go armed in these areas would create a free fire zone. I told him that I would rather find myself in a free fire zone than a shooting gallery, which is what the present system has created.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I fully share the SAS viewpoint. Yet at one of the earlier Democrat debates, when it was referred to, the audience responded with derisive laughter.

Too many young people, particularly those in college, do not think. They haven’t been raised to think, but to follow. And when they are getting shot at, they run or shut their eyes and duck. They don’t tackle the shooter, or resist physically like that heroic old man in Virginia (Liviu Librescu). That involves judging, and their judgment was paralyzed in grade school.

[El Gato]

Did SAS ever submit an Amici brief in the DC gun law case, Heller? If they did, it must have been bundled with other groups. If so, which one?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

FROM THE POST:

Not only is the campus of NIU a gun-free zone, the entire state of Illinois is a de facto gun-free zone. The governor and legislature have repeatedly resisted the requests of the citizenry for the right to carry in their home state. This shooting reminds us too readily of the recent killings in Tinley Park.

We cannot provide safety through proclamation. In addition to signaling an aggressor that he will meet little resistance within their boundaries, gun-free zones provide the potential victims within them with a false feeling of security. They are nothing more than protection-free zones. Too often they become killing zones.

Illinois Freepers, FYI and Involvement!!

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[Condor51]

Police arrived at NIU in less than five minutes from the time that the shooter entered the stage of the auditorium

[When seconds count, the police are 'only' minutes away.]

Maybe us serfs stuck here in Daley's kingdom of IL should start a massive Civil Disobedience Movement and start carrying - open or concealed and the 'heck' with the draconian laws. If enough of us do it, maybe we'll swamp the courts and they'll just give up, like IL has done with the Illegals.

Nah, forget that idea. Unlike the stinking Illegals we have too much to lose. Thanks to that $#@&ing George Ryan's deal with King Richie Daley that's now a Felony and nobody needs that. Even if it was just an empty holster the state wide gestapo (the DuPage County States Attorney is a gun grabber too) would throw the book at us, like for 'making a terrorist threat'. And in Cook County or Chicago the charges would be even harsher.

But something has to be done, that's for sure. Hopefully Heller vs D.C. will be it.

'Spirit', Thanks for the PING

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[2harddrive]

Cool! Bravo!

[gitmo]

But we need Constitution Free Zones for our own good!