Yesterday myself and thousands of concerned Illinois gun owners gathered for a march from the Prairie Capitol Convention Center to the State Capitol in Springfield. Prior to the march guest Speaker Dr. Suzanna Hupp gripped the audience with the story of loosing her parents to a crazed madman at Lubby's Careteria in Texas, along with 25 other people. Most of these tragic deaths were unnecessary because Dr. Hupp would have been carrying that day but chose to leave her gun in her car to comply with Texas Law at the time. She did not blame the shooter. He was like a rabid dog. She blamed the Texas legislators who caused her and others to be unarmed that day. Dr. Hupp later became a state legislator and help change Texas Gun Laws and obtain concealed carry.
Dr. Hupp told of another interesting fact, that right next door was a hotel with a large meeting of police officers. However, hotel management asked the LEO's to leave their guns in their cars for fear of "alarming the other guests"'. They complied out of "political correctness", and this greatly slowed the response time. This fact alone directly resulted in the death of her mother who was fatally shot just as the officers entered the room, while she protected her mortally wounded husband of 47 years.
This is the kind of horror story that we all know WILL happen in Illinois. When it does, the blood of the victems will be directly on the hands of Speaker Madigan, the Governor, and all of the other anti-self defense Chicago politicians. I do pray that when it does that the family's of the victems will hold these people PERSONNALY accountable.
Sorry, I tripped over my soapbox!!!
The IGOLD event went off without incident or without opposition from anti-gun groups that I could see. Once we reached the State House we were greeted on the steps by some great Pro-gun legislators including State Senator Sam McCann who has introduced legislation to repeal the FOID card. We were also told that not one but two new concealed carry bills had moved out of committee by a vote of 11 to 1, and that these legislators were fighting hard to defeat Rahm Emmanual and the Anti-gun Chicago Democratic corruption machine and their newest ammo tax and gun registration scheme.
After the reception it took over an hour to get everyone inside the capitol. I'd guess we had at least 5-6 thousand participants. We then split up and went to talk with our respective legislators. Interestingly most of the Chicago legislators were in hiding. Big surprise.
Dr. Hupp told of another interesting fact, that right next door was a hotel with a large meeting of police officers. However, hotel management asked the LEO's to leave their guns in their cars for fear of "alarming the other guests"'. They complied out of "political correctness", and this greatly slowed the response time. This fact alone directly resulted in the death of her mother who was fatally shot just as the officers entered the room, while she protected her mortally wounded husband of 47 years.
This is the kind of horror story that we all know WILL happen in Illinois. When it does, the blood of the victems will be directly on the hands of Speaker Madigan, the Governor, and all of the other anti-self defense Chicago politicians. I do pray that when it does that the family's of the victems will hold these people PERSONNALY accountable.
Sorry, I tripped over my soapbox!!!
The IGOLD event went off without incident or without opposition from anti-gun groups that I could see. Once we reached the State House we were greeted on the steps by some great Pro-gun legislators including State Senator Sam McCann who has introduced legislation to repeal the FOID card. We were also told that not one but two new concealed carry bills had moved out of committee by a vote of 11 to 1, and that these legislators were fighting hard to defeat Rahm Emmanual and the Anti-gun Chicago Democratic corruption machine and their newest ammo tax and gun registration scheme.
After the reception it took over an hour to get everyone inside the capitol. I'd guess we had at least 5-6 thousand participants. We then split up and went to talk with our respective legislators. Interestingly most of the Chicago legislators were in hiding. Big surprise.
