Conservative Donnybrook

No I’m not talking about Iraq.  Since the morning of Saturday April 19 (yesterday), thirty two people have been shot, six of whom have passed on.  This has been the most violent weekend the City of Chicago has seen in some time.  The Chicago Police attribute most if not all of this violence to gang warfare.  In a pressure cooker that was already ready to explode after the shootings at Northern Illinois University, this violence will only go to further fan the flames of increased gun control in Illinois.

As recently as last week Chicago public school students as well as gun control advocates decended on Springfield to plead with state lawmakers to pass stricter gun laws.  With Democrats in control of the executive and legislative branches here I have no doubt that their crys will be heard.  This is the kind of knee-jerk, some might say reactionary, answer that all liberals have come up with in the face of gun violence.  Limit the ability of individuals to purchase firearms legally.  They ignore one huge problem with their proposed solution, it will have no effect on the violence.  I find it hard to believe that the gang members who have been terrorizing the Southwest Side of Chicago went to a gun shop, presented a vailed FOID card (firearm owners identification card), waited the designated waiting period, and purchased their gun.  Instead, I would think they bought in on the street sans a serial number.  Enacting stricter gun laws will have no effect on the bad guys getting guns.  Bad guys will find bad ways to get guns.

If anything the state should permit concealed weapon permits to be issued in Illinois.  Citizens could then legally possess weapons and the bad guys will never know what hit them.

Incidentaly, since yesterday morning Chicago has been by far more deadly than Iraq.