Posted 14 May 2013 - 03:33 PM

for everyone

As some of you know, I have an Illinois concealed carry permit as a retired cop.I have been very much involved in getting an Illinois concealed carry law passedbecause i believe, in my heart of hearts, that the Second Amendment applies to everyone.Not just special people identified by other special people, everyone.I have to admit, I get really upset every time i read one of you print something in favor of excluding Chicago or Cook County because was back in 1969, when i first became a cop, I was a witness to all the laws that now exist in illinois that makes all Illinois citizens second class. But they were directed at just one class of people by the original tyrant, Richard Daley..How anyone cannot understand that all of this turmoil is being churned up to deny African-Americans living in Chicago their basic God given right to self-defense is beyond me.My own Republican Senator, Bivins, sold out to the Chicago machine and tried to carve out Chicago and Cook County and joined with Senator Raoul in derailing the vote on HB 997.I have inside information, please believe me on this, i have inside onformation. The people getting ready to pass a concealed carry bill are not talking to the NRA or the ISRA and they are getting ready to push through a bill that will not only exclude Chicago and Cook County, it will make the requirements for concealed carry so hard and so expensive, only the very elite and conncected people in the State will be able to carry.If they are able to ram this through and get away with it, don't think for a moment that all of the rest of the State is next because the Madigans, both senior and junior, own this State.As long as they continue to dictate to every politician in Illinois and force them to submit, then each and everyone of us have in effect, lost our citizenship and once again become subjects under the dictatorial rule of a despot.Please stop squabbling about whether or not to carve out Chicago because when you do, you splinter the effort and without a united front, we will lose.Tomorrow morning, please get on your phones and call every single State Sentor and Representative, regardless of where you live and politely asked the call rtaker to speak to the individual if possible, and if not, politely state that you will not accept any Bill that carves out an entire race of people just because of where they live and you will only accept a Shall issue law with State wide pre-emption.The politicians outside of Chicago and Cook County are getting ready to stab each and everyone of us, and liberty itself, right in the heart.Please get busy tomorrow morning and start fighting not for yourself but for all of us, each and everyone.Sendp out emails to every Illinois resident in your address book and ask them to get busy and help. Copy and paste my note and post it wherever you think it might do some good.We need a collective scream of rage to start and we need to do it right now because by Friday of this week, or at the latest, the end of this session in just two weeks, we may have a concealed carry law that will make you want to vomit.There is absolutely no time to discuss this, there is no more time. Now is the time to stand up because if we don't get this done now, there will be no other chances.Don't hesitate, don't even blink, get busy, start now, right now and generate as many phone calls tomorrow morning as possible and don't stop calling.Chicago and Cook County are not being thrown under the train, all of us are.

Edited by Bud, 14 May 2013 - 07:42 PM.