CARRY, CONCEAL...AND KILL

The masthead of the website IllinoisCarry.com states: "A website devoted to advancing your right to carry in Illinois". Amazingly, Illinois is the only state that doesn't allow citizens to carry a concealed firearm in public. However, Illinois does have carry and conceal. It's just not legal. Maybe the folks running that website should take a stroll down Chicago's mean streets after dusk on Saturday night to see how effective all those thousands of concealed firearms carried around by the local citizenry are in preventing violence. I suspect those carry and conceal devotees might just change their tune about the crime fighting effectiveness of even more thousands of concealed firearms carried around those blood soaked streets.

Originally published in the Chicago Tribune, June 19, 2012
Also published in the Lombardian, June 27, 2012