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Guys I am swamped and need to use this weeks break from session to catch up and get a lot of work done for next week.

 

To that end, I could use some help finding quotes from Illinois anti-gunners about how bad right to carry was gonna be fore Illinois. I will need names, dates and publicantions they are quoted in.

 

You'll enjoy the end product I promise.

 

So post them here or email them to me.

 

Thanks

 

Todd

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FORMER GOV Jello-head:

 

My foremost duty as Governor is to keep the people of Illinois safe,” Quinn said in a statement. “This is a flawed bill with serious safety problems that must be addressed.”

 

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/02/illinois-governor-vetoes-concealed-carry-bill/

 

 

 

This one was a petition to stop the carnage, by Lee Goodman:

 

"Concealed carry would bring more guns into public places and make it much more difficult for police to get guns off the streets. Sign the petition and tell the Illinois legislature that we do not want concealed carry in Illinois."

 

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-concealed-carry

 

 

 

 

this should be fun!

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Don;t need quinn, but I am real interested in loon like Goodman and Co making predictions about shoot outs and such

 

"Near the end of his involvement of the forum in the Q&A, he stated that the Second Amendment has no importance today. Then a Veteran stood up and stated that he fought for Goodman’s right to say what he was saying but asked him if he would support the same restrictions on the First Amendment. No answer from Goodman."

 

http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=5089

 

"Demonstrators Wear Targets to Show What Illinois Will be Like Under Concealed Carry

Advocates for safe streets plead, “Lisa Madigan, Don’t Let Us Be Targets”

 

http://capitolfax.com/2013/03/21/anti-gun-protest-targets-lisa-madigan/

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McCarthy went on, “I say Trayvon Martin, because the answer to guns is not more guns, and just simply putting guns in people’s hands is going to lead to more tragedy.”

 

Breitbart

 

http://www.breitbart.com/blog/2014/08/27/flashback-chicago-s-police-superintendent-predicted-concealed-carry-would-lead-to-more-tragedgy/

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More from Mr. Holier than thou Mr. Goodman filibuster on 4/8/13, accompanied by Little Lisa in some comments

 

“Illinois has proudly stood as the lone state that does not allow people to carry concealed guns,” Goodman said. “We want to continue our stance of being free from concealed weapons, and then we hope that the rest of the nation will join us.”

 

http://www.progressillinois.com/posts/content/2013/04/08/gun-control-advocates-hold-peoples-filibuster-against-concealed-carry

 

 

Decatur IL Police Chief first indicated "the wild wild west shootouts" but was quickly surprised at a "non-event this was for IL CCW holders" 1-19-15

http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=15316

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Might be a little outside the realm of your request, but thought it interestIng, CTA president Forrest Claypool:

 

No guns on CTA buses and trains, CTA President Forrest Claypool reiterated.

 

“Enclosed spaces are not appropriate for firearms for anyone whose experiencing rush hour crowding,” he said. He said it will provide more opportunities for accidents and disagreements “to escalate into violence” and will incite “fear among passengers.”

 

When asked whether the CTA would install metal detectors, as airports do, Claypool said the main deterrent from bringing a gun aboard a train or bus would be the criminal penalties associated with being caught.

 

http://scottdrury.org/highwood-resident-explains-decision-to-leave-states-attorney-race-for-shot-at-state-legislature/

 

Because it's working right now.....

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Thom Mannard, Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) at the time of the quote, was quoted in the Apr. 14, 2010 press release "Why Does the Illinois State Rifle Association Deny That Concealed Weapons Permit Holders Have Killed 139 Since May 2007, Including 9 Cops" available on www.supgv.org:"I think the ISRA [illinois State Rifle Association]should explain to the public why carrying hidden and loaded handguns in public is a good idea when we have a mountain of evidence that too many CCW permit holders in other states are unstable and violent, resulting in an appalling number of homicides. This evidence points to one conclusion, that a concealed weapons law is dangerous and a major threat for Illinois residents."Apr. 14, 2010 - Thom Mannard
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Thom Mannard, Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) at the time of the quote, was quoted in the Apr. 14, 2010 press release "Why Does the Illinois State Rifle Association Deny That Concealed Weapons Permit Holders Have Killed 139 Since May 2007, Including 9 Cops" available on www.supgv.org:"I think the ISRA [illinois State Rifle Association]should explain to the public why carrying hidden and loaded handguns in public is a good idea when we have a mountain of evidence that too many CCW permit holders in other states are unstable and violent, resulting in an appalling number of homicides. This evidence points to one conclusion, that a concealed weapons law is dangerous and a major threat for Illinois residents."Apr. 14, 2010 - Thom Mannard

 

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/c7/c79116dfa2d2439e018c28a9985c51fe190cab0cfb13ecd3e234c6291b9fd1a0.jpg

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The mass-transit amendment by Rep. Deb Mell (D-Chicago) and backed by gun-control advocates advanced 65-45 with four voting "present." It represented one of the biggest of more than a dozen votes the House took Tuesday that could help shape a broader concealed-carry bill that likely will surface in the chamber this spring.

"I've been on trains before where there might be a character who's a little agitated," Mell said. "Just the thought that people might be pulling out guns and there being a big shootout, I just think that's too risky."
http://blogs.suntimes.com/politics/2013/02/house_backs_concealed-carry_prohibition_on_public_transit.html
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“This model has been upheld by four appellate courts,” Cassidy said, addressing the chamber yesterday. “We can do this in a way that works for us. I don’t believe that more guns are the solution to our problem in Chicago.”
~ Kelly Cassidy
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“We don’t need bureaucrats issuing these permits to their friends and such,” said State Rep. Jerry Costello II (D-Smithton), who noted that less than one tenth of 1 percent of New Yorkers have concealed carry permits.
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Bost responded to Drury with a screaming rant, prompting the presiding officer, State Rep. Al Riley (D-Olympia Fields), to demand order and threaten to bring in doorkeepers if the lawmakers did not calm down.

“Here’s my point, members,” Drury said, regarding Bost's outburst. “We don’t want someone like that carrying a concealed weapon.”
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http://www.progressillinois.com/news/content/2013/04/18/emotions-run-high-illinois-house-during-concealed-carry-debate

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Operating under a deadline imposed by a federal appeals court, the legislature was required to pass a law regulating the concealed carry of firearms. We passed HB183 (Senate Amendment 5), which sets guidelines to allow for concealed carry. While the bill contains some components that will protect public safety, I am troubled by the failure to prohibit weapons in locations including our lakefront beaches and establishments that serve alcohol. I am also disappointed in the absolute preemption of all local rules, including Chicago’s important registration requirements.
~ Kelly Cassidy
http://www.repcassidy.com/issues/public-safety/
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“The only hunting that’s happening in my neighborhood is of young men,” Cassidy said.

Cassidy argued the legislation is written so loosely that a person could “freely carry a concealed handgun” with a detachable high-capacity magazine and laser sight. And she argued against the legislation because even landlords in a two-flat could not ban a tenant from carrying a gun. - See more at: http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/chi-illinois-house-defeats-less-restrictive-concealed-carry-bill-20130418,0,3058868.story#sthash.JCArhb8A.dpuf
http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/chi-illinois-house-defeats-less-restrictive-concealed-carry-bill-20130418,0,3058868.story
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"With respect to working and getting the job done, I think the people of Illinois know that I work every day for their common good. I believe in gun safety, and I'm going to always speak out about that. I don't think people should have their lives and property harmed by people with loaded concealed weapons who don't, under the law, deserve to have them," he said.
~Pat Quinn
http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/chi-illinois-concealed-carry,0,4449852.story

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I will work with colleagues during the current legislative session to restore some measure of balance to a law that jeopardizes public safety. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has reported that of nearly 9,500 county residents who applied for five-year concealed carry permits since early January, 300 had records for domestic violence, gang activity, gun crimes, sex crimes, burglary and other criminal activity.Yet, the Illinois State Police had given initial approval to all but five of those applicants for concealed carry
~Don Harmon

The new law also requires signs be posted at schools, parks, libraries, museums, and zoos, on the CTA and Metra—even though the law prohibits concealed weapons in all those places. I would expect most churches and temples—in which the law inexplicably allows concealed guns—to post signs as well.
~Don Harmon

I received a call this week from an Oak Park mom troubled by having to explain to her six-year-old why there were suddenly pictures of guns everywhere. I'm told psychiatrists and psychologists are investigating the effects of the visual bombardment we will endure, particularly on our children.
~Don Harmon

http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/2-18-2014/No-sign%3F-No-guns/
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"Why don't you ask the family of Trayvon Martin? Seriously. We're setting ourselves up for problems," Garry McCarthy said. "And 16 hours of training? And then telling somebody, ‘Here, go have at it.' There's not even a qualification involved. There's 16 hours of training. Do you know what 16 hours means? That's two days in school, right? Eight hours a day. That is not an adequate period of time to become proficient with a firearm. You probably can't even figure out how a gun works in that short a time, how to clean it! Let alone to learn how to use it."
~Garry McCarthy

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State Senator Dan Kotowski, a critic of concealed carry, would like to amend the law to require the same 80 hours of gun training police get.

"The training of a Chicago Police officer is so intense, and still, in spite of all the training law enforcement goes through, we still have problems," Kotowski says.
~Dan Kotowski
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Martha Rosenberg, of the National Gun Victims Action Council, said the effect of the law was not as bad as she feared, but had a different theory as to why.

"Even though, legally, people can bring firearms out, there's a lot of places where they can't bring it," she said. "So the law is going well because the carriers aren't all over the place."
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82717283/

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Sheriff Tom Dart said Sunday that he is proposing a concealed-carry gun ordinance to keep Cook County from becoming the “Wild West.”

Dart said he’s worried about a stalemate in the General Assembly on a law to license people to carry concealed guns. If legislators don’t meet a June 9 court deadline to pass such a law, anyone with a state firearm owner’s identification card could legally walk anywhere in public with a concealed weapon, Dart said.

“We would have the Wild West,” Dart said to the Chicago Sun-Times. “There would be no regulation.”
http://www.wlsam.com/common/page.php?pt=Sheriff+Tom+Dart+proposes+Cook+County+concealed-carry+ordinance&id=36093&is_corp=0
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"Eleven police officers have been shot and killed accross the county by concealed carry permit holders"

LOL Acevedo


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/chicago-police-officers-v_n_852083.html

 

 

Chicago police officers joined gun control groups in the state capital Wednesday, and said that flaws in the gun permit system would be amplified by allowing people to carry concealed firearms.

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"If we don't know their mental health background, we're at a disadvantage" when confronting potential suspects "and if they have the ability to have a weapon it makes our interaction even worse," Assistant Police Superintendent Jimmy Jackson told the AP.

 

 

Mark Walsh of the Illinois Coalition against Handgun Violence told NBC Chicago last month that, according to a recent study, concealed carry permit owners have been involved in 25 murder suicides, 17 mass shootings and at least 9 shootings of police officers since 2007.

 

 

 

"It's a different atmosphere that we live in," Sen. Terry Link told the Quad-City Times. "People live in fear constantly about guns. We do not want to start the wild, wild West up by us."

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good work boys. I am really looking for those comments from Illinois anti-gunners about shooting over parking spaces, we will have the wild west, they will shoot up everything, you know we are all just one step away from being a lunitic. Some of these are very helpful. keep it up its gonna be worth it in the end

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Huffington Post – 7/9/13

Sen. Jacqueline Collins, D-Chicago, said Quinn's changed made sense and voted to sustain the veto.

"It's a position that I'm making out of respect for the mothers and the fathers who've lost children to senseless gun violence," Collins said.

 

 

 

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy - McCarthy Warns Of Dangers From Concealed Carry Law

March 4, 2014 7:52 AM

 

“There are going to be confrontation situations. We’re hearing stories across the country about people getting shot over ‘thug music,’ right? Or somebody throwing popcorn in a movie theater,” he said. “These things are going to come, as sure as we’re standing here.”

 

“Stand by and watch what happens. The answer to gun violence is not more guns,” McCarthy said.

 

“What’s going to happen is, that’s putting illegal guns on the street, because people steal cars, and now they’re not just going to get the car, they’re going to get a bonus. They’re going to open the glove compartment, and find a firearm,” McCarthy said. “It’s outrageous. It’s not well thought-out. And 16 hours of training is not even near to being adequate to learning how to use a firearm, let alone become proficient with it, nor learn when you can use it.”

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McCarthy also told WVON in an earlier interview:

“You put more guns on the street expect more shootings,” McCarthy said. “I don’t care if they’re licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained… putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I’ll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we’re going to have tragedies as a result of that. I’m telling you right up front.”
http://www.breitbart.com/blog/2014/08/27/flashback-chicago-s-police-superintendent-predicted-concealed-carry-would-lead-to-more-tragedgy/
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“If we didn’t pass anything, we’d have the Wild West,” said Senate President John Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat.

“We already have in my district a Wild, Wild West,” said another Chicago Democrat, Senator Jacqueline Collins, referring to the shootings that occurred last week.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/guns-despite-chicago-bloodshed-illinois-wil
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Decatur Police Chief Brad Sweeney said he didn't really know what to expect when concealed carry became law in Illinois last year. While he and his officers hoped it would not cause any problems, the thought of the city turning into a “wild, wild west” of gun violence did cross his mind.

 

“It's been such a nonevent,” Sweeney said. “We were worried these firearms may start to turn up in cases, but I could not find any report of an incident all of last year.”

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/after-a-year-impact-of-concealed-carry-has-been-minimal/article_23521f5b-f8b1-54cd-aa5e-2c8aac8a59c2.html
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Here's a gooood one Todd!!!

 

 

Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:57 PM

http://senatorjacquelinecollins.com/images/CollinsFloorShot13.jpgIn calling for universal background checks and a crackdown on gun trafficking, the Chicago Sun-Times began by citing Senator Collins' remarks on the dangers of weakening Illinois' gun laws:

Addressing the Illinois Senate Tuesday, state Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins (D-Chicago) shrugged off warnings from gun advocates that failing to enact a concealed-carry law before a court-imposed July 9 deadline would turn Illinois into "the wild, wild West."

In her district, which includes parts of Englewood and Greater Grand Crossing, "It is already a wild, wild West," Collins said.

Exactly. We can't let the long recent debate about the right to carry concealed guns in Illinois distract us from the most pressing reforms we need.

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-22/news/chi-quinn-stands-by-opposition-to-conceal-carry-in-illinois-20110622_1_weapons-issue-gun-policy-illinois

 

 

In the House, Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, is a longtime opponent of concealed weapons proposals and said no one is safer by carrying them.

 

In fact, by the time they get the gun out, it may well be too late. And to the extent they get the gun out early, they may well be causing pain and harm and damage to a family member, Currie said.

 

We have enough mayhem, enough gun violence without the opportunity for people to carry concealed weaponry on their persons, Currie added.

 

 

 

 

 

http://48thward.org/conceal-carry-defeated-in-illinois-house.html

 

I, too, like the John Wayne movies, Davis said. I like those movies about the Wild West where everybodys carrying a weapon and everybodys shooting at each other. We dont live in those days any more America is no longer the Wild, Wild West. I urge a no vote.

 

Outgoing Rep. Harry Osterman, D-Chicago, warned the legislation would lead to people bringing guns to places like Navy Pier and create tragedy.

 

This will add to injury, to death, said Osterman, who was recently elected to the city council.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/illinois-gun-control-batt_n_887211.html

 

 

"Illinois is really important nationally," said Mark Walsh, director of the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The country needs "one state people can look to and see it's still doing the right thing," he said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/illinois-lawmakers-send-concealed-carry-bill-to-gov-quinn/article_b3962049-4520-5577-ab17-d73776891aeb.html

 

We havent taken the proper steps to ensure that those who are a risk to themselves and the general public cant get their hands on these guns, said Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge.

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Screw the gun industry and the lobby that represents them! Kotowski shouted on the Senate floor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/concealed-carry-illinois-house_n_3116073.html

 

 

The only hunting thats happening in my neighborhood is of young men, said Democratic Chicago Rep. Kelly Cassidy, who opposed the bill

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Guns tend to create a greater danger.

 

 

As the dissenting opinion points out, the two judges who threw out Illinois' law did not take account of the danger to the public from stray bullets, and they ignored the Illinois legislature's determination that carrying weapons has been shown to escalate violence......"

 

http://chicagoist.com/2012/12/11/federal_court_strikes_down_illinois.php

 

God forbid, theres an incident where an employee or anybody comes into a facility that allows concealed carry, or doesn't prohibit it, and takes action with that gun, said Friedman. There inevitably will be a claim that the employer who had the opportunity to prohibit concealed carry but didn't is somehow responsible for that act of violence.

 

 

 

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/11/26/concealed-carry-illinois

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Here is a full copy from the Senate transcript of Trotter's final argument against Dillard's bill during that May 4, 1995, floor debate:"Yes, just before I close, I understand your intent, and -- and they're good intentions from your part; however, there's a lot of individuals who don't have those intentions. There's a lot of individuals out here who do look at this as an opportunity to be that vigilante, to be that support person to the police officer who isn't there, which is one of the things we addressed just yesterday when we voted for-- for -- in arming and also in empowering part-time police officers. What you're doing here just basically creating part-time police officers who have not gone through the extensive training, who have not had the psychological evaluations, who will be getting out there who feel now that they're--they are stronger, they are badder, they are tougher because they have this nine-shooter on their hip. And this just isn't it. And we're talking about are we allowing or just curtailing those who not have been convicted. According to this, it's an applicant who has not been convicted of a forcible felony under the laws of this state or any other jurisdiction within twenty years of the applicant's application for the flrearm - the FOID card, or at least twenty years have passed since the end of that period of imprisonment may, in fact, hold a weapon. So we're saying that here's someone who might have had a felony, who can still get a gun, just twenty years -- under the FOID card but they haven't done nothing in twenty years, but --now we're going to give them a gun. I think we--you're really stretching it here when you're empowering these individuals with these weapons."
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http://48thward.org/conceal-carry-defeated-in-illinois-house.html

 

Rep. Marlow Colvin, D-Chicago, said downstate lawmakers come from places that are much different from the more dangerous streets of Chicago. He feared what would happen if concealed weapons were allowed at an event like the Independence Day fireworks in Chicago, where a million people may turn out.

“Talk about powderkeg,” Colvin said. “One size does not fit all.”

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The thing I think is missing here is vicious, unrelenting "I told ya so" ridicule that needs to be publicly heaped upon the people who screamed and idiot-blathered that the sky was going to fall, despite the reality that other states have had concealed and some even open carry for many years previously without such apocalyptic destruction occurring. I know it's not socially acceptable, but it should be a legal right and obligation to be a massively ungracious winner when wrong-headed individuals are proven to be so utterly and unequivocally incorrect.

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Colleen Daley, executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, said the group conducted statewide polls in April and the results showed "across the board people are typically in our corner." She said Illinois residents support the idea of measures such as universal background checks and that "the majority of people (polled) were opposed to concealed carry."

 

I'd like to see these polls. Not that they mean much.

 

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-01/news/ct-orland-homer-concealed-carry-tl-ssw-0130-20140201_1_steve-balich-new-law-orland-park

 

 

Colleen Daley, executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, said her organization wants ensure any concealed-carry bill included “reasonable restrictions,” including better mental health information sharing with the federal government and mandatory background checks for any firearms sales.

“Because of the court’s ruling we are also looking at putting together the most comprehensive and common-sense concealed-carry proposal in the country,” Daley said.

 

AKA reasonable restrictions = Quinn's Amendatory veto.

thesouthern.com/news/local/rep-phelps-files-illinois-concealed-carry-bill/article_82dfc67a-6a77-11e2-8dd3-001a4bcf887a.html

 

 

 

"Sporting events, farmers markets, street fairs, there are so many places that people gather. We want to make sure that people can't carry at those," Colleen Daley, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, said.

http://abc7chicago.com/archive/9002745/

 

Not being able to post a certain amount of quoted text seriously sucks.

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The mass-transit amendment by Rep. Deb Mell (D-Chicago) and backed by gun-control advocates advanced 65-45 with four voting "present." It represented one of the biggest of more than a dozen votes the House took Tuesday that could help shape a broader concealed-carry bill that likely will surface in the chamber this spring.

"I've been on trains before where there might be a character who's a little agitated," Mell said. "Just the thought that people might be pulling out guns and there being a big shootout, I just think that's too risky."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/politics/2013/02/house_backs_concealed-carry_prohibition_on_public_transit.html

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“This model has been upheld by four appellate courts,” Cassidy said, addressing the chamber yesterday. “We can do this in a way that works for us. I don’t believe that more guns are the solution to our problem in Chicago.”

~ Kelly Cassidy

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“We don’t need bureaucrats issuing these permits to their friends and such,” said State Rep. Jerry Costello II (D-Smithton), who noted that less than one tenth of 1 percent of New Yorkers have concealed carry permits.

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Bost responded to Drury with a screaming rant, prompting the presiding officer, State Rep. Al Riley (D-Olympia Fields), to demand order and threaten to bring in doorkeepers if the lawmakers did not calm down.

“Here’s my point, members,” Drury said, regarding Bost's outburst. “We don’t want someone like that carrying a concealed weapon.”

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http://www.progressillinois.com/news/content/2013/04/18/emotions-run-high-illinois-house-during-concealed-carry-debate

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Operating under a deadline imposed by a federal appeals court, the legislature was required to pass a law regulating the concealed carry of firearms. We passed HB183 (Senate Amendment 5), which sets guidelines to allow for concealed carry. While the bill contains some components that will protect public safety, I am troubled by the failure to prohibit weapons in locations including our lakefront beaches and establishments that serve alcohol. I am also disappointed in the absolute preemption of all local rules, including Chicago’s important registration requirements.

~ Kelly Cassidy

http://www.repcassidy.com/issues/public-safety/

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“The only hunting that’s happening in my neighborhood is of young men,” Cassidy said.

Cassidy argued the legislation is written so loosely that a person could “freely carry a concealed handgun” with a detachable high-capacity magazine and laser sight. And she argued against the legislation because even landlords in a two-flat could not ban a tenant from carrying a gun. - See more at: http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/chi-illinois-house-defeats-less-restrictive-concealed-carry-bill-20130418,0,3058868.story#sthash.JCArhb8A.dpuf

http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/chi-illinois-house-defeats-less-restrictive-concealed-carry-bill-20130418,0,3058868.story

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"With respect to working and getting the job done, I think the people of Illinois know that I work every day for their common good. I believe in gun safety, and I'm going to always speak out about that. I don't think people should have their lives and property harmed by people with loaded concealed weapons who don't, under the law, deserve to have them," he said.

~Pat Quinn

http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/chi-illinois-concealed-carry,0,4449852.story

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I will work with colleagues during the current legislative session to restore some measure of balance to a law that jeopardizes public safety. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has reported that of nearly 9,500 county residents who applied for five-year concealed carry permits since early January, 300 had records for domestic violence, gang activity, gun crimes, sex crimes, burglary and other criminal activity.Yet, the Illinois State Police had given initial approval to all but five of those applicants for concealed carry

~Don Harmon

The new law also requires signs be posted at schools, parks, libraries, museums, and zoos, on the CTA and Metra—even though the law prohibits concealed weapons in all those places. I would expect most churches and temples—in which the law inexplicably allows concealed guns—to post signs as well.

~Don Harmon

I received a call this week from an Oak Park mom troubled by having to explain to her six-year-old why there were suddenly pictures of guns everywhere. I'm told psychiatrists and psychologists are investigating the effects of the visual bombardment we will endure, particularly on our children.

~Don Harmon

http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/2-18-2014/No-sign%3F-No-guns/

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"Why don't you ask the family of Trayvon Martin? Seriously. We're setting ourselves up for problems," Garry McCarthy said. "And 16 hours of training? And then telling somebody, ‘Here, go have at it.' There's not even a qualification involved. There's 16 hours of training. Do you know what 16 hours means? That's two days in school, right? Eight hours a day. That is not an adequate period of time to become proficient with a firearm. You probably can't even figure out how a gun works in that short a time, how to clean it! Let alone to learn how to use it."

~Garry McCarthy

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State Senator Dan Kotowski, a critic of concealed carry, would like to amend the law to require the same 80 hours of gun training police get.

 

"The training of a Chicago Police officer is so intense, and still, in spite of all the training law enforcement goes through, we still have problems," Kotowski says.

~Dan Kotowski

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Martha Rosenberg, of the National Gun Victims Action Council, said the effect of the law was not as bad as she feared, but had a different theory as to why.

 

"Even though, legally, people can bring firearms out, there's a lot of places where they can't bring it," she said. "So the law is going well because the carriers aren't all over the place."

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82717283/

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Sheriff Tom Dart said Sunday that he is proposing a concealed-carry gun ordinance to keep Cook County from becoming the “Wild West.”

Dart said he’s worried about a stalemate in the General Assembly on a law to license people to carry concealed guns. If legislators don’t meet a June 9 court deadline to pass such a law, anyone with a state firearm owner’s identification card could legally walk anywhere in public with a concealed weapon, Dart said.

“We would have the Wild West,” Dart said to the Chicago Sun-Times. “There would be no regulation.”

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"Eleven police officers have been shot and killed accross the county by concealed carry permit holders"

LOL Acevedo

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Acevedo what a TOOL . "11 officers across the county have been shot by concealed carry permit holders" Hmmm how does that happen when no prermits had been issued yet ???? Oh I forgot he was lying because his lips were moving

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