On a More Profound Note…
Some advice:
When the Missouri Legislature was debating the bill to allow concealed carry by its citizens, they were pretty evenly divided; such as seems to be the case there in Illinois.
Some say the tipping point came when the Pro-Carry side had John Ross come into the hearing/debate to give a statement. For those of you who don’t know, John Ross is the author of
Unintended Consequences and lives in the St. Louis, Mo area. (By the way, if you haven’t read his book, you need to read it now.) I wasn’t there and I didn’t say this; but I believe his testimony was along the lines of filling in the history of laws denying the Second Amendment from the founding fathers, up through the civil war and to the present. He, I believe, pointed out that many of these laws were aimed directly at non-white citizenry and enforced with a wink and a nod when it came to the white population. I think, correct me if I’m wrong, his testimony illustrated the racial bias in many of these laws and shamed the fence sitters into voting for the right to carry a weapon.
John Ross can be contacted here:
www.john-ross.net. It may behoove you to get in contact with him ‘post-haste’ in preparation for the next assault on the state legislature. Maybe he can get you over the hump as he is purported to have done, here in Missouri.
Let’s face it; everybody in Chicago who needs to carry a gun, is carrying a gun already, whether they’re suppose to be or not. If you’re from ‘out of town’ and you get stopped with a firearm, you’re in big trouble. Think of Scotty Pipin (Chicago Bulls) and Tank Williams, (Chicago Bears) and how their cases were treated vs. the Chicago alderman (Bernard Stone?), whose FOID card expired and wanted to pass a bill covering his ‘mistake’ retroactively.
Like they say, ‘Chicago Works’, I guess for some people.
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