Chicago, home of the toughest gun laws in the country, is now up for licensed concealed carry. How does that happen when the Mayor, Rahm Emmanuel, is more anti-gun than Obama and Holder combined? A bill sits on Governor Pat Quinn’s desk to license concealed carry in Illinois, after a hard-fought compromise between conservative downstate lawmakers who opposed most gun restrictions and anti-gun lawmakers from Chicago and other urban areas. The legislation requires state police to issue a concealed-carry permit to any gun owner with a state-issued Firearm Owners Identification card, and who passes a background check, pays a $150 fee and undergoes 16 hours of training.
COMMENTS:
Oh, my. Well, the
fact is this: the more citizens who are
licensed to carry concealed weapons the lower the violent gun crime rate
is. If Quinn signs it, it will be
interesting to see what happens to the siege of violence that has plagued
Chicago. My prediction is that, if
passed, you will see the violent crime rate in Chicago plummet.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. Do you think they will actually drag Lois Lerner back
into the House sub-committee to testify on the IRS case? (Eden ~ Lawrence, KS)
A. Yes. And, then what? It is a real difficult situation to
interrogate a hostile witness. She could
continue to plead the Fifth and refuse to answer and end up in jail and that would
lead to a quick Supreme Court decision about whether or not she forfeited her
Fifth Amendment rights when she made statements to Congress in her last
hearing. But, the Court is out of
session for the summer. This could be a
very interesting, long and hot summer at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NE.
Q. I have to admit that I am becoming paranoid. Just what is the NSA and government keeping
track about what I do? (Horatio ~
Portland, OR)
A. Well, they certainly have access to anything you do that
involves a monetary transaction or any matter of public record. If you buy a gun, they can know it. Fly to Jamaica using a credit card, they can
know it. Call a friend or relative in
Israel or Jordan, they can know it. Get
a ticket for speeding, they can know it.
They can know anything they want to; the question is, do they want to?
You’ve heard stories about cops checking out potential dates and abusing
their information privileges? Can the
NSA problem offer any less opportunity to check you out by people who don’t
have the right? The fact that they can
do so is, as far as I am concerned, the opportunity for unlawful search and
seizure.
Q. Do you think Edward Snowden will ever return to the
U.S.? (Carole ~ Burns, OR)
A. Only in a casket.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing
of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists
and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to
divide rather than unite us.” ~ John Avlon
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