Posted on 08/23/2012 5:22:18 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Despite a statewide ban on concealed weapons, gun owners in one central Illinois county don't need to worry about facing charges because its top prosecutor is refusing to enforce a law he considers unconstitutional. Illinois is the only state that still bans residents from carrying concealed guns. McLean County State's Attorney Ronald Dozier calls the law antiquated and said Wednesday that he hopes his policy against prosecuting harmless violations will send a message.
"I felt like I just wanted to make a statement to the Legislature," said Dozier, a retired judge who was appointed state's attorney in December and plans to step down in October.
And legal experts say he's completely within his rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
this should be interesting.
All gun control laws violate the shall not infringe part of the 2nd amend.
Be careful in what you wish. Can you possibly imagine the slaughter in parts of Illinois if the citizenry was allowed to legally carry firearms. Oh, the humanity!!!
Gunfire each and every hour of each and every day.
(I hope you know sarcasm when you read it!)
It can only get better. The body count for chi town is what?
I live in a small, gun saturated swath of east Tennessee and, before that Horrible Boating Accident, contributed substantialy to that saturation. Strange thing. In the 25 years I’ve been here, we haven’t had a single shooting in this gun saturated neighborhood. Someting’s wrong. We should be a bullet pocked and scarred wasteland by now, especially because there are far more guns per capita than in any Chicago inner city neighborhood.
I live in a small, gun saturated swath of east Tennessee and, before that Horrible Boating Accident, contributed substantialy to that saturation. Strange thing. In the 25 years I’ve been here, we haven’t had a single shooting in this gun saturated neighborhood. Someting’s wrong. We should be a bullet pocked and scarred wasteland by now, especially because there are far more guns per capita than in any Chicago inner city neighborhood.
I love your post and agree completely, from the rural woods of northern Michigan I can attest to similar situation.
Boating accident and all!
OMG!!! We formerly gun owning FReepers must be the world’s worst boaters, given how many of us have suffered Horrible Boating Accidents, accompanied by total disarmament, in the last year. An unspeakable Second Amendment tragedy.
The Prosecutor in my county, DuPage, has already announced that he won’t prosecute anyone with an unloaded gun in a fanny pack as that situation has already been litigated all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court.
I know it’s not ideal, but it’s better than nothing.
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He has? Dang, don't know how I missed that.
I'm gonna have to get my order in for one at CheaperThanDirt. I need some other stuff (Zombie Ammo) anyway.
“...Gunfire each and every hour of each and every day.”
Might not be that bad. Violent criminal actors knocked down by intended victims until the message gets through.
Could be good
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