ORIGINAL: salukipv1
You know I have heard little about open carry, which I think i read is legal in more states than concealed? ie holster on your hip? I think people are more comfy with concealed, out of site out of mind, though I'm for both, I'd take either one being legal in IL. or anywhere for that matter.
Why is it rocket science that criminals will always have / use guns illegally, and that responsible citizens won't be using them illegally / in a wreckless matter? I read somewhere that in the 1920's that women had pocket pistols and so did men, and people really weren't mugged because of this. Criminals knew people had pistols and would use them. Sounds pretty logical to me.
There is just no evidence, and never has been that any "gun control" law or regulation has ever had any tendency to reduce violent crime, or even GUN CRIME!
Back in the days of Prohibition, when people like Al Capone & Co. wer murdering each other and everyone else daily, organized crime got over 90% of their guns by stealing them from the police, national Gurad Armories, and elsewhere. Gun laws are BS, always have been, and some are even a JOKE. Here in PA right now, some moron in the state legislature has proposed that
ALL BULLETS and CARTRIDEGE CASES have microscopic
SERIAL NUMBERS stamped on themso when they are used in crimes, they can go arrest the person that bought them! IF such idiocy was not so serious, it would be FUNNY! Can you imagine the poor dealers and the poor cops, or whoever, trying to keep records of all those damned numbers??? Geez, this is an insanity worthy of the
Governator of Kally-fornia, right here in PA. I hope the rest of the PA legislators get a hugh belly laugh out of this one!!
(I wonder if the bozo who dreamed this up knows that OVER 1 MILLION ROUNDS of .22 LR ammo alone is fired int he U.S. EVERY DAY!!)