The Growing Illinois Second Amendment Movement
Seems the more rural areas of Illinois are pushing second amendment resolution in response to the anti-gun movement going on in the Chicago area. To wit:
The Wabash County Board of Commissioners approved of a movement supporting the Second Amendment at the county board meeting Monday.
The measure is a reaction against a “restrictive” firearms legislation being introduced by Cook County legislators. Sheriff Joe Keeling and former sheriff Terry McWilliams were at the County Board meeting in support of the proposal.
Keeling mentioned that the banning of all firearms would only take guns away from the innocent citizens. He added that criminals would find a way to get their guns illegally. The proposal will be sent to Springfield to the governor.
Similar letters of support have already been signed in Brown, Hancock, Pike, Johnson, Schuyler, Randolph, White, and recently Edwards, counties. This statement shows Wabash County’s support of the second amendment and of other Southern Illinois counties.
Good. In our representative form of government, the larger urban centers tend to enforce their will on smaller more rural communities via state government.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:15 am
There are two entities in Illinois. North of I-80 and south of I-80. North is controlled by Hizzoner Daley. You don’t get elected there unless you’re in his pocket. Gov. Balagoyevich (Daley’s puppet) refuses to even stay in the state capitol and instead spends over $5K on each trip back and forth from Chicago. South of I-80 is a mix of Dem and Rep. Votes on guns aren’t on party offiliation but on location. Read the Ill State Rifle Assoc. web site (www.isra.org) for all the sleazy politics the anti-gunners play in the legislature to force through their agenda and de-rail anything pro-gun.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
None of these resolutions mean anything unless they are supported by ordinances empowering local sheriffs to arrest and detain for trial any person, no matter his affiliation in or out of law enforcement, who tries to enforce the illegal laws already on the books. That includes the governor, the mayor of Chicago, state troopers, ATF, or anyone.
Sheriffs have the power to do so, if they have a law to enforce. Unknown by many is the fact that no level of law enforcement is superior to a local sheriff.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
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