If Illinois lawmakers cannot pass a concealed carry law acceptable to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by June 9th, the constitutionally prescribed right to keep and bear arms will immediately take effect in the Prairie State. That is, just as codified in the 2nd Amendment, all Illinois gun owners will have the right to bear a weapon anywhere they wish in the state.
On December 11th of last year, a 3 judge panel from the 7th Circuit ruled Illinois’ near-total ban on the carry of firearms unconstitutional. The 47 page decision in Moore v Madigan gave the Illinois legislature 180 days to craft legislation “…consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion…”
Last week, the Illinois House voted 85-30 in favor of a new concealed carry statute that would institute both a “shall issue” provision and statewide preemption for the first time. Under the terms of the statute, the state would be required to issue a concealed carry license to any Illinois resident who completes a mandatory training program and pays a $150 tax. In addition, the new law would take precedence over any local regulations. For example, the statute passed by the City of Chicago banning “assault weapons” would bow to statewide rules.
Though one would hardly realize it from the state’s record of vehemently anti-gun rights legislation, the vast majority of Illinois is very pro-gun! Yet just as Chicago liberals have spent decades forcing their brand of anti-second Amendment lunacy on the rest of the state, the Chicago-dominated, Senate Executive Committee voted down the House bill on Tuesday, demanding all anti-gun regulations of the Windy City and other localities remain part of any new legislation. The Chicago clan also want to incorporate strict mental health review provisions along with a mandatory 16 hour training program in any new law.
Will members of the Illinois House and Senate get together on constitutional, concealed carry legislation that will win the blessing of fiercely anti-gun Governor Pat Quinn prior to the court-imposed June 9th deadline? If a new law has not been fashioned, the State of Illinois could be subject to the United States Constitution for the first time in decades!
“Nobody wants us to not do anything and the federal court ruling take effect and thereby allow ‘constitutional carry’,” said Democrat State Sen John Sullivan. A predictable statement from a typical Democrat. Indeed, what a frightening thought for Illinois’ ruling Democrat Party—constitutional rights in the form of the 2nd Amendment actually being granted to residents of a state whose lawmakers have so fervently ignored the document for such a very long time!
Should Democrats fail to resolve their differences, it will be very interesting to see just how many folks in Illinois strap on pistols on June 10th —concealed or otherwise—in response to their new-found rights.
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The Chinese Elephant In The Room
Over the past couple of years, Obama and his administration have allowed the Communist Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to hack into our military computer system and steal virtually all our military weapons designs. (He’s supposedly “Commander-in Chief” and thus responsible for all national security issues, including breaches.) What Obama got in return is not clear, since like everything else in his “most transparent administration ever,” his political donors have been largely kept secret. However, given the massive amounts of money Bill Clinton got from the Chinese, it is unlikely that the greedy pigs in the Obama campaign machine didn’t take even more.
Clinton’s quid pro quo included giving the Communist Chinese all sorts of help getting established in places like both ends of the Panama Canal and the Bahamas, selling them the technology to actually get their missiles to hit their targets, and enabling them to continue to steal all of our top-secret nuclear technology. By 2002, they had the capability to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, armed with cutting edge atomic warheads, and hit what they were aimed at. It appears that Obama’s quid pro quo is allowing them to set up Special Enterprise Zones across America, and giving them the information to make all our weapons systems totally vulnerable. Yet none dare call any of this treason.
In a previous column – “Obama is Setting Us Up” – I noted the following:
Add to this the recent robust moves by China to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. According to Dick Bove, vice president of equity research at Rafferty Capital Markets:
It’s predicted by some economists that the dollar may be dumped by 2015; and if that happens, with the shambles the economy is in due to Obama and his Marxist minions ramming socialism down our throats, America will implode, and chaos will reign supreme. Which is what China is aiming for, and where all this is leading.
For a number of years now, China has seen its milennia-old dream of world domination coming within its grasp. Unfortunately, its economy has not grown fast enough, due to its lack of energy to fuel the engines of growth. It has been competing for every drop of oil that’s out there, but it’s not enough. This is where a collapsing U.S.A. comes into the equation.
It has recently become clear that our oil and natural gas resources are far larger than those of any other nation. With a collapsing economy and society, China could a) buy everything it wanted – land, extraction, and processing infrastructure; or b) militarily crush us, take it, and use us as forced labor.
There is a very disturbing and ugly pattern to what the Chinese have been doing, ever since the Communists under Mao Zedong drove the Nationalist Chinese, under Chiang Kai-shek, into exile on the island of Taiwan. Leftists in America, whether they called themselves communists like Obama’s mentors Frank Marshall Davis and Bill Ayers, or progressives like all the Marxists and neo-fascists who dominate the Democrat Party, have deluded themselves into believing that they can manipulate and dominate the Chinese. Tragically for America, it is obvious that the opposite is true.
The question is: is it still possible to turn all this around?
The answer is: yes, and the first step is to clean the traitors out of OUR government.
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