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Gun Rights Group Blames Illinois Murder Rate On Anti-Self Defense
Environment
To: State Desk
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A report this week
that Illinois homicides are on the rise came as no surprise to the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA),
which blames the state's anti-self defense laws for the increasing
bloodshed.
"Illinois lawmakers have stubbornly refused, time and again, to
reform the state's law on concealed carry of firearms for self
defense," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Because they have
failed their responsibility to provide adequate law enforcement,
while consistently preventing law-abiding citizens the means to
defend themselves, the blood of every one of those crime victims is
on the hands of Illinois legislators."
The Illinois State Police reported June 30 that homicides in
some areas rose over 28 percent in 2001 over the number killed in
2000. Various experts have blamed the slumping economy and the
dismantling of the Chicago Housing Authority, and a DePaul
University sociologist suggested that handgun availability may be
partly responsible.
"If there is a handgun problem in Illinois," said Gottlieb, "it
is that the state's anti-gun political machine, largely run by
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, has been working overtime to prevent
law-abiding citizens from not only carrying guns for their personal
security, but even owning them. Illinois anti-gunners, anxious to
keep citizens disarmed and vulnerable, should be ashamed at the
murder rate increase.
"While subscribers to the elitist Daley philosophy have
continued to fight against the right of each citizen to be safe by
denying them the right to defend themselves," Gottlieb observed,
"the murder rate statewide in Illinois, with a few exceptions,
climbed 9.8 percent last year. That is a disgrace Illinois voters
should remember in November."
Gottlieb said positive evidence from other states, where
concealed carry for self defense is legal, has shown the anti-gun
formula to be "a placebo, pandered to the public by gun control
snake oil salesmen as the panacea to crime."
"Gun control as a homicide prevention measure is a fraud,"
Gottlieb stated, "and the Illinois data proves it. How many more
Illinois citizens must die before state lawmakers allow them to
fight back?"
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of
the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local communities throughout the United States.
http://www.usnewswire.com
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/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
07/02 17:17
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0702-134.html
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - Josey1 on 07/03/2002 05:48:55
Environment
To: State Desk
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A report this week
that Illinois homicides are on the rise came as no surprise to the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA),
which blames the state's anti-self defense laws for the increasing
bloodshed.
"Illinois lawmakers have stubbornly refused, time and again, to
reform the state's law on concealed carry of firearms for self
defense," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Because they have
failed their responsibility to provide adequate law enforcement,
while consistently preventing law-abiding citizens the means to
defend themselves, the blood of every one of those crime victims is
on the hands of Illinois legislators."
The Illinois State Police reported June 30 that homicides in
some areas rose over 28 percent in 2001 over the number killed in
2000. Various experts have blamed the slumping economy and the
dismantling of the Chicago Housing Authority, and a DePaul
University sociologist suggested that handgun availability may be
partly responsible.
"If there is a handgun problem in Illinois," said Gottlieb, "it
is that the state's anti-gun political machine, largely run by
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, has been working overtime to prevent
law-abiding citizens from not only carrying guns for their personal
security, but even owning them. Illinois anti-gunners, anxious to
keep citizens disarmed and vulnerable, should be ashamed at the
murder rate increase.
"While subscribers to the elitist Daley philosophy have
continued to fight against the right of each citizen to be safe by
denying them the right to defend themselves," Gottlieb observed,
"the murder rate statewide in Illinois, with a few exceptions,
climbed 9.8 percent last year. That is a disgrace Illinois voters
should remember in November."
Gottlieb said positive evidence from other states, where
concealed carry for self defense is legal, has shown the anti-gun
formula to be "a placebo, pandered to the public by gun control
snake oil salesmen as the panacea to crime."
"Gun control as a homicide prevention measure is a fraud,"
Gottlieb stated, "and the Illinois data proves it. How many more
Illinois citizens must die before state lawmakers allow them to
fight back?"
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of
the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local communities throughout the United States.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
07/02 17:17
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0702-134.html
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - Josey1 on 07/03/2002 05:48:55
Comments
The Second Amendment is Not Enough
By Nicholas Provenzo (June 29, 2002)
[CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] On June 12, 2002 the Ohio Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit that the city of Cincinnati filed against gun manufacturers in an attempt to recoup the cost of gun-related violence. In a split decision, the court overturned an appeals court verdict that threw out the case on a failure to establish that the gun makers directly cause gun violence. Speaking for the majority, Justice Francis Sweeney writes, "While we do not predict the outcome of this case, we would be remiss if we did not recognize the importance of allowing this type of lawsuit to go past the initial stages." On the contrary, suits of this nature should never be allowed to pass their initial stages.
The right to gun ownership is crucial; at its most basic, the right to gun ownership protects an individual's ability to take immediate action against an immediate threat to his life. Lawsuits like the Cincinnati case threaten gun ownership rights by employing the tactics of the tobacco lawsuits against gun manufacturers, but instead of a state sanctioned shakedown of a business to enrich the public weal, the goal this time is the outright destruction of the gun manufacturers.
Similar to the tobacco cases, the logic used against gun manufacturers is that by producing and marketing guns, manufacturers bear the responsibility for their misuse and the subsequent "public health" costs. In the Cincinnati case, the court held that "just as the individuals who fire the guns are held accountable for the injuries sustained, [gun manufactures] can be held liable for creating the alleged nuisance." An individual may have pulled the trigger, but it is the gun manufacturer who built the gun and allowed it to find the trigger-man's hand and thus bears responsibility for the trigger-man's actions.
While the errors of such thinking are manifest, that hasn't stopped suits like the Cincinnati case from going forward. The ultimate price of these lawsuits will be the ability to legally purchase a firearm for one's defense.
One of the founding principles of a free society is that the use of force must be placed under restraint. A person may not act as his own judge, jury and executioner when he suffers an injury. Yet there are times when the immediate, life endangering nature of a threat demands immediate action. In those cases, a person must take the action necessary to remove the immediate threat if they seek to preserve their life, even if it entails the use of deadly force. The ownership and use of firearms is a wholly legitimate expression of this right.
Yet anti-gun advocates do not see self-defense as a legitimate reason for a lawful individual to own a firearm. Since an outright gun ban is politically unfeasible except in backwaters like the District of Columbia, we now have the convoluted attempt to destroy gun manufactures by tort law. Given the success of the tobacco lawsuits, one has to wonder if it's only a matter of time before the anti-gun manufacturer lawsuits enjoy a similar success.
Pro-firearms advocates have been in a defensive posture for too long on this issue. Rather than forever reacting to the threats by anti-gun advocates, pro-gun advocates should seek a legislative affirmation of the individual's right to bear arms. These days, the 2nd Amendment is not enough.
--Nicholas Provenzo is the Chairman of the Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism www.moraldefense.com
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2002/june/np_second.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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largely due to the anti-gun laws. The Republicans in Illinois and the Democrats are both anti-gun. Pathetic state to live in!!!!!!!!!!!