Synopsis:
As Introduced Urges the courts, especially the United States Supreme Court, to adhere to the clear wording of the Second Amendment being a right afforded to state-sponsored militias and not individuals.This has been all over the gun blogger-net for the past couple of days. Those fun-loving scamps in the Illinois Legislature (who always reminded me of the characters in M*A*S*H) have a new trick to play on their fellow citizens.
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Which completely goes against both the HELLER and the MACDONALD decisions.
The smart money today is on failure of the bill, though, as
- 11/06/15: Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
- 11/09/15: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Pamela Reaves-Harris
- 11/10/15: Referred to Rules Committee
- 11/10/15: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.
- 12/29/15: Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.
- 12/30/15: Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Pamela Reaves-Harris
But apparently the voters are not looking kindly on this abrogation of their civil rights. Illinois is known as a "swing state", and the vote of the populace might go either way.
Also, the governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, is a Republican. He might have had a thing or two to say about this.
3 comments:
Illinois has a huge problem with gun violence. Their lawmakers are doing what they think is necessary to control the problem.
@Anonymous: No, Chicago as a huge problem with criminal violence. The rest of Illinois is pretty normal.
Illinois also has extremely strict "gun control" laws, every one of which was proposed and promised to fix the "gun violence" problem, and none of which had any appreciable effect other than emboldening criminals to be more violent.
It's fair to say that "what [lawmakers] think is necessary to control the problem" isn't working.
@ Everyone else: So they're trying to pass a law that tells the courts how to interpret articles in the Bill of Rights, in direct contravention to what the U.S. Supreme Court has already decided?
If enacted, how is this not just begging for a judicial smack-down?
Isn't Chicago and Cook Co. the heart and backbone of Illinois?
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