U.S. appeals court strikes down state's concealed-carry ban

U.S. appeals court strikes down state's concealed-carry ban

Chicago Has the Highest Murder Rate in the US

OK, let me try to summarize this issue for you.

Before the state of Illinois instituted a ban on carry conceal, they already had the highest murder rate.  In fact, Chicago had the most strict hand gun ownership laws, along with Washington DC, and still had the highest murder rate in the US.  So laws restricting ownership and carry conceal did not prevent murders by gun.

In fact, Christian Fenger Academy, a public school in Chicago, had 218 students shot during a single school year, and 27 of those shootings resulted in death.  This was after the federal government gave a $500,000 grant to the school to promote non-violence.  Imagine that, getting a half-million dollars in grant money to promote non-violence, and still 218 students in a single school get shot within a year.

So now those who oppose guns think you can throw money at a problem to make it disappear.  Incidentally, they do the same with schools in general, and still they get lousy scores, low graduation rates, and more drop outs.  Logic would dictate a change in strategy.

Knowing this information about shootings in Chicago, House Majority Leader, Barbara Flynn Curry, plans to appeal the court decision on carry-conceal in Illinois.  Currie, D-Chicago, said that “justices surely do not mean that we would have to have wide-open” laws in Illinois. She said Illinois must now look at what other states are doing, such as disallowing guns in day-care centers and other locations.  “If we need to change the law, let us at least craft a law that is very severely constrained and narrowly tailored so that we don’t invite guns out of control on each of our city’s streets,” Currie said. “I don’t want people out of control wandering the streets with guns that are out of control.”

Apparently, Ms. Curry is not paying attention to what is already happening on the streets.