HOWARD J
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I have not lived in Detriot for many years---- I always had the feeling that I was living in a shooting range--------------
As a fellow Illinois resident who shares your views and concerns, I just want to say "Thank You!"Born in Chicago.
My girlfriend - soon to be fiance lived in Chicago suburns and her job was at O'Hare airport. Illinois State Veteran's Scholarship, along with VEAP allowed me to go to Illinois state schools and completely covered my education. So those were two reasons I came back to Illinois after the Army.
I've worked for Chicago-based Fortune 500 companies since college.
I have heard diatribes from people who claim that people who live in Illinois value the rich restaraunt culture, sports teams, museums and entertainment more than they value their Second Amendment rights. And those people advocate an exodus out of Illinois as the only way to deal with the anti-2A politics.
Illinois is one of the most politicaly corrupt states (if not THE most politicaly corrupt), and the democratic process is completely subverted by the structure and rules of the Illinois General Assembly, which is controlled by the corrupt Chicago political machine. This is how 99% of the state is controlled by 1% of the state, this why Illinois is the only state not to have a CCW law despite the fact that a majority of citizens - even a majority of citizens in Chicago and Cook County - favor concealed carry. And this is why Chicago and Illinois is at the forefront of much of the 2A judiciary proceedings. The state is ruled by anti-gun demagogues who, because of the corrupt political system, have political immunity from their actions.
I have children now in the school system and aging parents who need my help, and I simply cannot move out of state.
On IllinoisCarry and TheFiring Line - I heard from a lot of people who would rant that leaving Illinois was the only way to teach the corrupt politicians a lesson. I've been fighting for gun rights in Illinois since 1987. For many years the battle was about stopping even stricter laws from being enacted. But slowly, the tide has turned and instead of simply being on the defensive - we were able to introduce pro-2A laws.
McDonald made a huge difference. We re-introduced a CCW bill this year but lost again when the Speaker of the House Michael Madigan tied the legislation up in rules committee and prevented it from coming to a vote.
The combined cases of Moore & Shepard are currently before the 7th Circuit and we are hoping for a favorable ruling before August 9th.
I really can't move out of Illinois, but I don't think I would anyway.
I don't know how many more guns I could have purchased with the amount of money I've given to political candidates running against the anti-gunners in this state, or how much more ammo I could have purchased. Besides McDonald, I've been on the losing side of this battle for 15 years but we are going to win this fight.
North Pole, Alaska. That is where would send the grand children's Christmas letters from Santa so they would have that North Pole post office postmark. I always enjoyed my trips to Alaska, been years but looking out an aircraft window was mesmerizing. Absolute splendid beauty.LOL!
lived on the island of puerto rico till i got drafted... ended up in alaska after orders to go to vietnam got cancel... so ended my military term of 23 months and 15 days or so, they shipped me back to the island to be discharged...spent a month in the island and came back up to alaska ...been here since 73... little town called north pole
Wow, that is a HUGE change!Moved from Manhattan NYC to Scottsdale, AZ.
My wife's job offered her a hefty promotion if we relocated.
I miss the city at times, but overall could not be happier to be out of that area - much safer here and the GUN LAWS RULE!!! Day after I landed I got my AZ drivers license and my first Glock
We are also newly married and felt that AZ would be a much better environment to raise kids in than NYC.
FOID card to purchase a pellet gun? I had no idea it was that bad there.