Republicans are no protection. The only Governor who ever vetoed CCW in Illinois was Jim "The Hair" Edgar. Before him, we had Big Jim Thompson, who ruled like a king for over a decade and could have gotten a CCW bill any year he wanted one. After Edgar, we had George Ryan, who solemnly declared that when he was a boy, he never needed an M16 assault weapon to bring home a squirrel for ma to cook up.
When Ryan was sent packing, we got Blagojevich, the Democrat who is known for saying that a .50 BMG cartridge is the size of a ketchup bottle and that a sniper on the Sears tower could kill people at Wrigley Field.
What people forget is that his opponent in that race was Jim Ryan, a Republican, who actually ran a sting operation as Attorney General in which his investigators convinced people to break the law by insisting that it was not illegal to ship guns directly over state lines rather than sending them to FFL holders. He was a disgusting anti-gun slug who didn't care what law or principle he broke as long as he could screw gun owners.
I shouldn't make it sound like there's absolutely no difference between Democrats and Republicans nationwide, but I'm tired of the seesaw in Illinois.
I certainly hope Nebraska is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's depressing to see how far we haven't come.