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SunTimes editorial board calls for BIO/FixFoid (SB1966) passage by ILGA


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It must be some kind of high level brain rot that makes these people believe criminals will all the sudden obey the law if they pass just one more law.

It's called "false utility."

 

The laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? and does it not subject the innocent to all the disagreeable circumstances that should only fall on the guilty? It certainly makes the situation of the assaulted worse, and of the assailants better, and rather encourages than prevents murder, as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons.

In simpler words, murder is a greater crime than possession of a weapon. Someone intent on the greater crime isn't going to be stopped from committing the lesser crime as well. Therefore, enacting the lesser law has either no effect on the greater crime or, in fact, increases it.

 

For example: that legislator has false ideas of utility who ... would sacrifice a thousand real advantages to the fear of an imaginary or trifling inconvenience; who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying [the means of preventing evil].

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The FOID scheme is unconstitutional. It is a blanket ban on the possession of a firearm until the State tells you it is ok, after weeks, days, and months of waiting. But more on point, the proposed fix the Foid and the editorial urging its passage miss the target. The proposal does not deal with the the psychological, sociological, and cultural causes of violence, including violence inflicted by a person using a firearm. Until those issues are correctly dealt with, upticks in violence will continue. How many of the shooters who killed more than 800 people in Cook County in 2020 had a Foid card? How many even attempted to apply for one? You do not ride around looking for someone to shoot or rob or jack. Why? It is not because you have or don't have a Foid card, or don't have a firearm.

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The FOID scheme is unconstitutional. It is a blanket ban on the possession of a firearm until the State tells you it is ok, after weeks, days, and months of waiting. But more on point, the proposed fix the Foid and the editorial urging its passage miss the target. The proposal does not deal with the the psychological, sociological, and cultural causes of violence, including violence inflicted by a person using a firearm. Until those issues are correctly dealt with, upticks in violence will continue. How many of the shooters who killed more than 800 people in Cook County in 2020 had a Foid card? How many even attempted to apply for one? You do not ride around looking for someone to shoot or rob or jack. Why? It is not because you have or don't have a Foid card, or don't have a firearm.

 

Correct, and that's why we all know there will be more legislation coming down the pike whether or not they pass SB1966. If it does pass, they'll say, "Well, it's a good start, but we can do even better." Gun control is a long term scheme. Insert boiling frog meme here.

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