[rellimpank]

--same repetitive garbage--and this rag no longer takes reader comments---

[SoFloFreeper]

Mentally ill.

This is the mode of liberalism.

The “solution” to the VA problem will be a bigger VA.

The “solution” to the failure of Obamacare will be more Obamacare.

The “solution” to increased debt will be to incur more debt.

[Popman]

I wonder what type of mental disorder one must have to think criminals will obey new gun laws...

Never mind.....

[cripplecreek]

ban assault weapons

Whatever those are.

[samtheman]

Is there even one of all those Chicago murders committed by someone with a legally registered gun?

[DuncanWaring]

I wonder if they’ve considered passing a law that prohibits shooting people.

[Westbrook]

How about longer sentences without parole for violent repeat offenders?

Oh, wait, that’s racist.

[Sooth2222]

Quinn and Kelly urged the passage of a bill in the Illinois General Assembly — the Illinois Public Safety Act — that would ban assault weapons; put a limit on high-capacity ammunition; and expand background checks for prospective gun buyers.

How many "assault weapons" are used in Chicago homicides? I'll guess that absolutely none were used over July 4th -- which would be exactly the same as the effect of passing this law. None.

(At the cost of repeating myself -- Al Capone's Chicago was much safer than Rahm Emmanuel's Chicago -- and you could buy a Thompson submachine gun for $225 by mail in Al Capone's Chicago. It should be obvious. It's not the guns.)

[vekzen]

Do they arrest the shooters and put them in prison?

[fieldmarshaldj]

They need thug control laws.

[knarf]

how much tighter can laws get ?

[ronnie raygun]

And the gangbangers sell and trade on the black market, good job!

[DH]

“reiterated their support for tighter gun laws.”

Just how stupid and “brain dead” are these people? Don’t they realize that these killers don’t care about LAWS?
That’s why they are stabbing and shooting.

There used to be a day in America where laws were written and OBEYED by the populace. Now, it’s almost impossible to convict anyone (other than a law abiding, tax paying citizen) for anything.

How many times have you been in a store and heard some woman screaming at her spoiled child saying “I told you if you did that again I was going to spank you!” Then the child simply did whatever it was again! No follow through on the punishment, just a lot of hot air.

Criminals today are coddled and worse yet protected by Political Correctness and racial special privileges.

Forget about new and more laws.......enforce the ones that have been with us for over 100 years.

[Iron Munro]

They must have got word that there are still a few legal guns out there they haven’t been able to confiscate.

[ThunderSleeps]

Why don't they push for a law requiring everyone to start a vegetable garden? That would have about the same chance of impacting gun violence as what they are planning on pushing for. Actually maybe better, people busy gardening might not have time to shoot other people.

Seriously, these people are either idiots -certifiable idiots- or they are merely taking advantage of this terrible situation to advance their agenda. The steps and laws they are proposing will not work. That isn't opinion, that is provable fact. These kinds of laws have not been effective anywhere else they have been tried, while getting rid of similar laws has been effective.

[ExCTCitizen]

howmuch GUN CONTROL can you get to remove GUNS from CRIMINALS?

[Blue Collar Christian]

“Quinn and Kelly urged the passage of a bill in the Illinois General Assembly — the Illinois Public Safety Act — that would ban assault weapons; put a limit on high-capacity ammunition; and expand background checks for prospective gun buyers.”

How many of the shootings this last weekend would have been prevented had this bill already been law?

I would bet “none”. And I would win that bet.

[Jay Thomas]

This obviously is not about fixing the problem. I can't help but think the left is arming the inner city (by allowing them to keep their guns) and trying to disarm the law abiding so they can use the inner city thugs as shock troops. All the powers that be need to do is switch off the EBT cards and the thugs will invade the sub-burbs.

Can I be far off? Gun control only impacts the law abiding.