01-30-2010, 12:08 AM
I am so very proud that our elected leaders here in Illinois, the "Land of Lincoln", have the good common sense to forbade persons in this state to go about with legal permits for the concealing and carrying of guns.
We here in Illinois refuse to go along with the "Wild West" mentality that the NRA endorses. We pay taxes to have peace officers of the law deal with the criminal element, with considerable experience how to use guns, when to use guns and most importantly when not to use guns.
Legalizing the concealing and carrying of guns does not curb gun violence, it proliferates it. Like a proliferation of nuclear weapons..the world needs fewer WMD, not more.
Same with hand guns. No other major democracy in the world allows for its citizens to legally conceal and carry guns. Not the UK, not Germany, not France, not the Netherlands, not Norway, not Sweden and the list goes on and on. As the late great, legendary Senator Ted Kennedy said "I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it."
The same countries cited above that also have national health care for their citizens, unlike we do here in the USA, where the "party of no" will not permit the blessings of good health for all the American People.
Anyone see a common thread between the keen desire the few have to legally conceal and carry guns and the keen desire the few have to defeat national health care for our citizens? The common thread is both are life-negating. Yet the Good Book in Deuteronomy 30:19 says "choose life, that you and your children may live."
In the final analysis, in this pilgrammage called life, there has been and always will be the struggle between those who seek to negate life and those who seek to affirm life. Never give up the good fight for the affirmation of life, for as the late Senator Ted Kennedy said shortly before his death "the work begins anew, hope rises again and the dream lives on."
We here in Illinois refuse to go along with the "Wild West" mentality that the NRA endorses. We pay taxes to have peace officers of the law deal with the criminal element, with considerable experience how to use guns, when to use guns and most importantly when not to use guns.
Legalizing the concealing and carrying of guns does not curb gun violence, it proliferates it. Like a proliferation of nuclear weapons..the world needs fewer WMD, not more.
Same with hand guns. No other major democracy in the world allows for its citizens to legally conceal and carry guns. Not the UK, not Germany, not France, not the Netherlands, not Norway, not Sweden and the list goes on and on. As the late great, legendary Senator Ted Kennedy said "I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it."
The same countries cited above that also have national health care for their citizens, unlike we do here in the USA, where the "party of no" will not permit the blessings of good health for all the American People.
Anyone see a common thread between the keen desire the few have to legally conceal and carry guns and the keen desire the few have to defeat national health care for our citizens? The common thread is both are life-negating. Yet the Good Book in Deuteronomy 30:19 says "choose life, that you and your children may live."
In the final analysis, in this pilgrammage called life, there has been and always will be the struggle between those who seek to negate life and those who seek to affirm life. Never give up the good fight for the affirmation of life, for as the late Senator Ted Kennedy said shortly before his death "the work begins anew, hope rises again and the dream lives on."