Supreme Court Ruling

The other day the supreme court ruled that Illinois gun control law was unconstitutional. ( It's about time.) As you can guess I am all for the right or the ability for individuals to be able to carry a weapon for self defense. And to be able to carry it most any where you go. I am also very strongly in favor of rules and regulations to insure that those who choose to do so have gone through a thorough back ground checks, proper training in the use of a weapon, when and where you can use one and probably most important what will happen if it is used wrongly.

The mayor of Chicago immediately started to work on laws that made it almost impossible for the average citizen to obtain a permit and is trying to limit what you can own or how many. What all this is boiling down to is that the mayor and most of the government in that area still is trying to ban guns there. they claim that it will turn out to be just like in the old west movies where there is shoot out in the streets, (gee aint they having that now with the ban in place?) This is the same argument they had in Florida when they relaxed there gun control laws and the only thing happened there is crime rates have dropped some. My point is if it is so safe in that town that the every day "joe/Jane" doesn't need to be able to protect themselves then why does

the mayor have armed security personal? Is he that much more important than you or me or our families? The police cant and wont be there for you every minute of the day. As good as they are they just can't do it. Almost all the time by the time they get there it's too late. Sure they will most likely catch the criminal in the end but that really didn't help you at the time the crime was being committed.

Now the only way to stop gun crimes is to get rid of guns. By that I mean all guns world wide. Every bodes guns. All governments get rid of all guns. No police or armies will have them, no body guards will have them, no hunters will nobody. We all know that wont happen. Impractical and impossible. Besides, get rid of guns and the criminal will use a knife or a club. Hey the cave man didn't have guns and they managed to kill!

The point is as long as there are people out there who will hurt you to take what you have then you need a way to help prevent them. Will everyone armed stop crime? HELL NO!!! Will it maybe slow it down some? I truly think so. I know I would think twice about harming someone if I thought they were armed and would fight back. Thats why bullies pick on the weak. They know they wont fight back. And thats all criminals are. BULLIES!