Barack Obama's Chicago has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. According to NeighborhoodScout.com, the Windy City has 55 violent crimes a year for every thousand residents, giving it just a 6 on a 100-point safety scale. One reason is that Illinois is the only state in America that has an absolute prohibition on carrying a concealed firearm for self-defense.

But that's about to change, thanks to a ruling by a three-judge panel of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In the judges gave the Legislature...