Posted on 07/10/2013 4:43:28 PM PDT by raptor22
Guns: Illinois has become the last state in the union to allow citizens their full Second Amendment rights, and officials in the murder capital of America worry about the consequences of citizens defending themselves.
Illinois' legislature on Tuesday voted to let gun owners carry concealed weapons. The action followed a violent and bloody Fourth of July weekend in President Obama's hometown during which 74 people were shot and 12 were killed.
Permission for concealed carry in Illinois was prompted by a ruling late last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. It found that Illinois' law, the most restrictive in the country, violated the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The court ultimately gave the state until July 9 to rewrite it.
Illinois had the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Still, the carnage in some neighborhoods of Chicago made it safer to walk the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan. Local officials, such as Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, blame guns coming in from outside the city. Yet crime rates in the suburbs and downstate have been lower.
Murders in Chicago are down from 500-plus in 2012, but the pace is still averaging one a day. City officials who place blame elsewhere do not explain why Chicago's murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people looks nothing like America's overall 4.2, the Midwest's 4.5 or Illinois' 5.6.
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Kay-Ro, Cairo is in Southern Illinois, see http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4021/4237422474_c2ddef2c43_z.jpg?zz=1 . I was trying to get the headline, Little Egypt, Southern Illinois is a nice area.
I expect the new law to be effectively nullified in Chicago. They will perhaps start arresting legal gun owners for infractions of unrelated ordinances. There are surely enough of them that everyone is in violation of something or other 24/7. Just arresting non City Approved FOID holders every time they step out their font doors or doing SWAT raids on “information from informants” seems like it would be in keeping with the Daleys and the Rahms and the Organized Crime political family that runs Chicago. Lots of those arrests shoul get gun owners stripped of their rights to KaBA.
I expect the new law to be effectively nullified in Chicago. They will perhaps start arresting legal gun owners for infractions of unrelated ordinances. There are surely enough of them that everyone is in violation of something or other 24/7. Just arresting non City Approved FOID holders every time they step out their font doors or doing SWAT raids on “information from informants” seems like it would be in keeping with the Daleys and the Rahms and the Organized Crime political family that runs Chicago. Lots of those arrests shoul get gun owners stripped of their rights to KaBA.
Murders are down from 2012..
Practice practice practice..
Dumb yout’s
Chicagos pathetic record for successfully prosecuting gun crimes stand at 4-6 percent.
Cooperating with police damages street cred.
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Chicagos pathetic record for successfully prosecuting gun crimes stand at 4-6 percent.
Surprising? Not at all.
Maryland still has a long, long way to go.
It’s more like “Care-O” than “Kay Ro” and it is the poster child for failed race relations. In a nutshell, Blacks demanded to be hired at white-owned businesses, whites owners refused, blacks boycotted, the businesses closed. Today, it looks like a burnt-out war zone.
But you are right, Southern Illinois (Little Egypt) is a very different place than Cook County (which completely dominates Illinois government). Concealed carry was a rare win for downstaters.
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Alleged gunman in Hadiya Pendleton slaying was on probation for weapons conviction
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-hadiya-pendleton-probation-20130212,0,1383301.story
Gun prosecutions under Obama down more than 45 percent
We have too many laws and nobody enforcing them.
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