Defeat Blago-Daley (Illinois)

[Blaster]

http://www.legis.state.il.us/legisl...65&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=7961&SessionID=3

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is an affirmative defense to a violation of a municipal ordinance that prohibits, regulates, or restricts the private ownership of firearms if the individual who is charged with the violation used the firearm in an act of self-defense or defense of another. Effective immediately.

The bill is Illinois Senate Bill 2165. And what it would do is to
prohibit any municipality from sending you to prison if:

You could affirmatively prove ... that you used a gun to defend
yourself, your family, or your neighbor ... at your home or place
of business.

Not surprisingly, this common-sense legislation passed the Illinois
House by a 90-25 vote -- and the Senate by 38-to-20.

You may remember that this bill passed the legislature after a
Wilmette man, Hale DeMar, shot and wounded a home invader several
months ago.

DeMar was prosecuted for violating the town's ban on possessing
handguns, and a Cook County judge ruled against him in late October.

Both houses passed S.B. 2165 and sent it to Gov. Blagojevich's desk.
But the governor, who doesn’t have to worry about the safety of his
own family, has vetoed the bill -- thereby putting your family at
risk.

The Illinois Senate voted to override the Governors veto. Now it goes to the Illinois House.

Contact House members http://www.legis.state.il.us/house/default.asp

 

[DT Guy]

Blago is our own, personal Bill Clinton.


Larry

 

[Flyboy]

"No tyrant should ever be allowed to die a natural death."

--Standing Wolf's .Sig

 

[foghornl]

Bill Clinton wishes he could be as much of a flaming Socialist as the team of "Hot Rod Roddy" & Emperor DICK Daley II

 

[Henry Bowman]

This seems to be an event-inspired law. We need to remember that we can use emotional events to advance our cause as well as the antis do. Another example was Luby's shooting used to restore CCW in Texas. We usually don't think that way because we are motivated by principle rather than "the perceived end justifies the means" that the grave-dancing antis use.

Keep the momentum!

 

[bosshoff]

Daley

Daley is known as "Little King Richard the 2nd" in my circles. He has spent every last penny in the city coffers, and now is taxing the living snot out of every business enterprise in the city. Chicago is a fricking joke. They have lost so many of thier convention shows to other cities due to their huge costs discrepancies/taxes/fees involved in coming to Chicago to do business. I.E. The Hardware Show, The Association of Heart Surgeons of America. Vegas, and Florida pick these up. Chicago loses. Do you have any idea how much revenue is generated in a city when 10,000 doctors roll into town for 4 days, stay in hotels, and go to shows, shop, and go to dinner every night? Daley sucks. "No-go Blo-go" is a bitch. The whole rest of the state hates him, even his own Democrats, because he is not even in Springfield! His office is in Chicago! how insulting is that?

 

[warmi]

I don't see how IL will ever go back to being swing or even partially republican state.

The hold Democrats have on the state is now complete.
Daley gets Hussain style reelection margins in Chicago (80-20 or such) and statewide there is just not enough votes to override all these countless democratic "wards of the state" in Chicago whose gravy trains (as small as they are) depend on Dems being in power.

Last Tuesday Kerry won 55-45 and you can expect the same margins when trying to unseat Democratic governor.

Of course, the fact that the local Republican party is in disarray doesn't help either.