Judge Upholds Illinois Ban on Carrying Loaded Guns
WASHINGTON -- U.S. District Court Judge Sue E. Myerscough in Springfield, Illinois has dismissed a gun lobby challenge to Illinois law prohibiting the carrying of loaded guns in public. The Brady Center filed an amicus brief defending the Illinois law and citing numerous studies highlighting the severe danger posed by the carrying of loaded guns in public. The ruling was issued late Friday.
“We are pleased that yet another court has rejected the gun lobby’s claim that the Second Amendment bars communities from keeping loaded guns off their streets,” said Jonathan Lowy, Director of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project. “More than a dozen courts around the nation have agreed that there is no right to carry loaded guns in public.”
The court in Moore v. Madigan ruled that the Second Amendment “is narrow” and only grants a “right to possess lawful firearms ‘in the home’ for purposes of self-defense.” The court concluded that prohibiting public gun carrying is reasonable because it “will thereby diminish the public’s risk of injuries and death by gunfire.” The court based its ruling on studies finding that the public carrying of guns poses a severe danger to the public. Studies show that states that broadly allow gun carrying have experienced increases in violent crime, murder, and robbery.
This ruling follows a string of legal victories for gun control supporters in recent weeks, with courts rejecting gun lobby lawsuits challenging laws restricting the public carrying of guns in California, New Jersey and Texas and rejecting a gun lobby challenge to a federal rule to curb gun trafficking along the Mexico border.
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Actually, there _is_ a right to carry loaded guns in public -- it's just not a right that the federal courts recognize.
The Brady Campaign
Making Statistics One Defenseless Victim at a Time
The Brady Camp, and anti gun nuts in general, are creating dead, beaten and raped victims every day in this country. They do this by convincing YOU that by YOU not carrying a gun to defend yourself that somehow you are contributing to reducing crime. But, are YOU a criminal? If YOU carried a gun would you suddenly lose your mind and go on a killing rampage?
The Brady camp knows that there are violent criminals out there. And they know if these criminals somehow target YOUR family like they do so many others in this country that YOU will be defenseless by listening to their rhetoric and their false statistics.
Are YOU naive enough and ignorant enough to give YOUR life up, and your families lives up, to some crack head criminal who doesn't care in the least if he bashes in your sons skull or rapes your daughter and butchers her afterward....just to win points with the Brady camp nuts?
Is YOUR family so worthless to you that you will let some man like Paul Helmke tell YOU that you can't be trusted with a tool to defend your family from these predators?
Why do you let Brady tell you how YOU will behave if you own a gun? Why do you let them allow YOU to let YOUR family be unprotected just so THEY can spew out feel good rhetoric so even bigger idiots than you will continue to support them?
What does Brady lose or gain if YOU listen to their idiocy and YOUR wife is raped when she could have saved herself by simply having a gun ?
See what happens when a woman has a gun?
See this video: Woman kills her returning rapist with shotgun No gun = a raped woman.
Gun = unraped woman and a dead ass rapist.
No one wants to admit that the Brady camp MAKES dead victims. They CREATE raped women. They FACILITATE defenseless prey who are beaten, raped, robbed, stabbed, shot....murdered.
And they do it because YOU let them because YOU are too much of a hive mind drone that you can't think and reason for yourself. Do you think Paul Helke gives a rats rear about YOUR wife...YOUR son...YOUR daughter? No...he doesnt.
All the Brady Camp cares about is making sure YOU are DEFENSELESS. To them if you are murdered...if your wife is savagely raped and beaten to death....if you son is ripped apart by some lunatic with a knife, all Brady sees is that you are one more statistic. Gun rights groups are fighting for YOUR RIGHT to DEFEND yourself even if YOU don't presently understand that fact. Gun rights advocates want YOU to have the POWER to PROTECT yourself...your wife...your daughters and your sons...even if you cant accept that fact.
You may call us gun nuts. You may think we are paranoid. But the fact is that there are millions of defenseless victims in the USA every year.
Will your wife be one of them tomorrow? Will your family? You may not think so but crime happens every day...and it happens to someone just like you and me. Will YOU be next? And if you are can you do anything to stop it? Honestly?
The brady campaign is not about safety or saving lives. The NRA makes much more of an impact than Brady could ever do for safety.
Brady is about disarming America to protect the government from the citizens. They dont like US being able to fire them every few years.
The 1938 German Weapons Act made it illegal for a Jew specificly to manufacture or own firearms and ammunition. We all know what came next.
China established gun control in 1935; from 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964, and from 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians were exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970 — from 1971 to 1979, 300,000 people were exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956, and from 1975 to 1977 one million educated people were exterminated.
See a pattern?
"Studies show that states that broadly allow gun carrying have experienced increases in violent crime, murder, and robbery."
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What a BULLSHIT BOLD FACED LIE!
FBI crime statistics show NO INCREASE in violent crime over the SAME timeframe that more and more states have adopted concealed carry....in fact, just the OPPOSITE! Violent crime has DECREASED over the same time that more states have started to allow concealed carry!
BRADY....YOU ARE LIARS AND TRAITORS AGAINST THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY. YOU CREATE DEAD VICTIMS WITH YOUR BULLSHIT LIES.
It's all they have, Lies and made up stats.
Do guns make us safe?
Woman kills her returning rapist with shotgun
Woman Shoots Would-Be Rapist
Cocoa Store Owner Shoots Robber
Okla. mom Sarah McKinley defends her infant sons life from armed intruders
Woman Uses .22 Pistol to Shoot & Kill Invader
84-year-old Cincinnati man uses gun to defend himself during home invasion
Licensed gunpacker at GAS STATION shoots to defend himself
Mom with Ohio concealed handgun license fires gun to ward off sex offender's violent attack
Woman kills her returning rapist with shotgun
Pizza Guy Pulls Gun on Robber
Man at ATM Shoots Armed Robbers
Woman who shot 12-year-old won't face charges, but boy will
Concealed Carry works
Gun Owners Busy Shooting Thugs in Toledo
It was them or my family
Dont bring a knife to a gunfight
Appalachian School of Law shooting
A principal and his gun
Armed 11 year old Girl Defends Home from 3 armed Burglars: Armed Citizen
Texas 15 Year Old Defends Self, Sister; Shoots Burglar
Child Shoots Intruder - Port Allen, LA
Boy Uses Dad's AR-15 to Shoot Invader
Houston Self Defense Shooting CCW
Tire Shop Robber Shot by Armed Citizen (TX)
Shot Boy 11, Shoots Illegal Alien Home Invader
Woman Speaks Out After Shooting Attackers
Police: Shooting Was Self-Defense
Man Stops criminal with his concealed handgun
Woman kills her returning rapist with shotgun
84-year-old Woman Shoots Intruder
Elderly Apartment Owner Shoots Invader
Kentucky Homeowner Shoots Would-be Thief
Armed Pastor Holds Crooks at Gunpoint for Police
Kid Shoots Home Invader
Metro Mom Kills Home Invader
FoxNews: Pregnant Mom Holds Burglar at Gunpoint
HOME INTRUDER IS FATALY SHOT 10PM
89-Year-Old Fires Gun at Intruder
Woman In Home Kills Intruder
Man Fires Shotgun to Kill Home Invader
Man Shoots And Kills Intruder
Gun Owner Kills Burglar
Resident Kills Intruder, Wounds Another
Chicago Elderly Kills Intruder With Handgun
71-year-old homeowner shoots burglar
69-Year-Old Shoots Home Intruder
Armed Samaritan Thwarts Bank Robber
Man Shoots Armed Robbers
Woman Shoots Crazed Gunman at Mega-Church
Ailing Elderly Man Shoots Robber
Another 911 Caller Shoots & Kills Intruder
Texas Father Protects Family, Kills Intruders
Man Uses Handgun to Protect Home
Houston Self Defense Shooting CCW
Ambushed Dad Shoots Back at Robbers
Security Video: Woman With Gun Shoots Robber
Armed Customer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man
Man at ATM Shoots Armed Robbers
Good reason to be armed...
Armed Citizen Halts Liquor Store Robbery
Good Samaritan Kills Woman's Attacker
Liquor Store Owner V Armed Robber
Robber killed by clerk, robber's accomplice charged with it
Robber's Victim Pulls His Own Gun
Man Uses Shotgun to Protect Home
Man's Shooting Spree Thwarted by Armed Citizen
Gas Station Clerk Fires Gun at Robbery Suspects
Woman Uses Handgun to Shoot Invader
Armed Citizen Shoots Violent Ex-Boyfriend
Clerk Shoots Armed Robber
Gunfight Caught on Tape: Store Owner vs. 2 Armed Robbers
Robber Gets Shot By Clerk
Having guns doesn't mean you can rob everybody
Man Shoots Home Invader
Home Intruder Fatally Shot & killed by elderly man During 911 Call
Armed Beauty Queen Fatally Shoots Intruder in Florida Home Invasion
Man with concealed-carry permit kills robbery suspect in Cleveland
teen robber shot by Wal-Mart shopper
Richmond Store owner grateful for man who shot robber
Would-Be Robber Fatally Shot
Pizza Delivery Man Shoots, Kills Robber
Man Shoots, Kills Robber
Dunkin' Donuts robbery suspect dies after being shot
Customer shoots, kills robber at L.A. Tan
Clerk Who Shot Robber Acted in Self Defense
Man who shot robber a hero
Diner owner shoots robber in self defense
Clerk says he shot robber in self-defense
Church's customer shoots robber in neck
Beach pizza shop owner fatally shoots robber, police say
"Submitted by Brady Campaign on Feb 7, 2012"
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Well doesnt that just figure. The Brady slimebags were the ones to submit this vile, lying piece of sh't joke of an article.
Brady..I hope you come by here often so you can see what lying filth you are. Youve LOST this battle, that is FACT and it is just a matter of time before Illinois becomes a concealed carry state.
"The court in Moore v. Madigan ruled that the Second Amendment “is narrow” and only grants a “right to possess lawful firearms ‘in the home’ for purposes of self-defense.”"
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REALLY? Show us you lying ass wonder of a judge...WHERE does the 2nd say a damned thing about 'in the home' or even remotely hint at it.
"The Brady Center filed an amicus brief defending the Illinois law and citing numerous studies highlighting the severe danger posed by the carrying of loaded guns in public".
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
Brady somehow MISSES (more like 'rejects' the facts from) all the REST of the states where concealed carry PROVES THIS SH"T WRONG!
These Brady freaks are living in a world all by themselves.
Illinois WILL fall. Concealed carry is coming and there ain't a damned thing Bradyslime can do about it.
Well there is a reason the Brady campaign has so few members even though the membership is free. And there's a reason the NRA has so many paid members.