If you had so much as a prayer of having your rights under the 2nd Amendment
enforced in Illinois right now, without changing the political climate, that might make sense. But you don't. We all know it. We can vent about how unfair it is that this guy gets to carry and that guy doesn't, but the reality is that right now neither of them can do it legally. Some is better than none. Some is also nearer to "all" than none is.
And again, if you've got a better idea, lets hear it.
For whoever said that it was obvious that this is not a freedom issue because the NRA and the ISRA are not involved, you betray ignorance of the record of both organizations in Illinois. Both have traditionally written us off as a lost cause. As recently as a couple of years ago, ISRA wanted nothing to do with concealed carry. It wasn't until their upstart local chapter, the Champaign County Rifle Association (now renamed
www.gunssavelife.com ) came on the scene and nearly took over from the current ISRA board by running board candidates on a "push CCW NOW" platform, that ISRA decided to jump on the CCW bandwagon.
I'm glad ISRA exists. They do valuable things in this state, including their much-maligned target range and safety programs, plus a lot of unglamorous defensive action behind the scenes. But they are not pro-CCW bulldogs on a par with groups like the TSRA in Texas. That just isn't what ISRA does.
We're all going to have to agree to disagree on this one, I'm afraid. And it's moot, really, unless somebody figures out a way around Daley. It isn't as if we make or break the cops on this issue. But I'm disturbed at the hatred I'm hearing. I don't like Chicago myself, but you're talking about FOUR THOUSAND police officers who retired honorably--and you think every single one is a crook and an oppressor?
Really?
I don't. Maybe I'm just naive.