Shooting sports advocate thinks Illinois will get conceal-carry law
http://www.whig.com/story/19341312/shooting-sports-advocate-thinks-illinois-will-get-conceal-carry-law
When Dick Metcalf asked members of the Quincy Rotary Club whether they support a law allowing Illinois residents to carry firearms for self-defense, a large majority of those attending Tuesday's Rotary meeting raised their hands.
That public sentiment is part of the reason Metcalf believes the state will have some form of conceal-carry legislation within two years.
"We stand as the lone, single example against all of the rest of the states in the United States ... without the citizen right to carry firearms. That pretty much says it all. We're kind of behind the times," said Metcalf, president of PASA, the Pike-Adams Sportsman's Alliance.
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He said much of the opposition to gun rights in Illinois has come from political leaders in the Chicago area.
Quincy Alderman Mike Rein, R-5, added that Chicago is often called the murder capital of the nation, in part, because only criminals carry guns in the city.
Better late than never. Illinois is the ONLY state in the union that doesn't have some kind of legal way for citizens to carry concealed firearms for self-protection. You can even carry in NYC, if you have the right connections, but no one but cops and bad guys can carry in Illinois right now. That needs to come to an end. Citizens need a way to be lawfully armed outside of their homes as a deterrent to violent criminals.
Illinois needs to get legal concealed carry licensing and it needs to be shall issue.
