Illinois Gun Victory

Tails of the Gun   Huge victory for gun owners  Illinois-ban-on-concealed-weapons-overturned “ “We are disinclined to engage in another round of historical analysis to determine whether eighteenth-century America understood the Second Amendment to include a right to bear guns outside the home,” Judge Richard Posner wrote in the court’s majority opinion. “The Supreme Court has decided that the amendment confers a right to bear arms for self-defense, which is as important outside the home as inside. The theoretical and empirical evidence (which overall is inconclusive) is consistent with concluding that a right to carry firearms in public may promote self-defense,” he continued. “Illinois had to provide us with more than merely a rational basis for believing that its uniquely sweeping ban is justified by an increase in public safety. It has failed to meet this burden,” Posner wrote. Enter Lib-Think: The Illinois legislature reasonably concluded that if people are allowed to carry guns in public, the number of guns carried in public will increase, and the risk of firearms-related injury or death in public will increase as well   Gun homicides in Chicago(2001-2111) totaled 5588, or an average 508 per year. Recent Drudge headlines scream "Chicago 2012 Homicide Total Reaches 500." I'm just saying.  Using common sense and leisurely collected anecdotal evidence, one might conclude that the overwhelming majority of these killings were perped by the city's lawless street thugs.  So then, it is true that—in the short term— "the number of guns carried in public will increase, and the risk of firearms-related injury or death (by a public defending themselves and shooting MFCS) will increase as well."   Boo-Hoo, and Pass the Ammunition. And, as an aside—stop me if I've said this before—our prisons are choked with gang members sporting tattood gang membership badges.  A condition of membership. in many of these gangs is killing somebody.  So, my first act as Dear Leaser will be to cull through our prison population and dispatch them all, willy nilly..  In California alone the roll of illegals would be sliced in half.   I'm just saying.  ”