The mass killing at the Navistar plant in Melrose Park demonstrates the urgent need for concealed-carry reform in Illinois.
Rendered defenseless by gun-control laws, the innocent victims at Navistar didn’t have a chance.
Stripped of the ability to fight back, they were easy prey for a murderous convicted felon who should have been behind bars, not running loose in society.
While politicians like Mayor Richard Daley pontificate about the alleged evils of firearms, decent citizens are being cut down by violent maniacs turned loose in our streets by our ineffective justice system.
Worse yet, victims of crime are forbidden to carry the means to protect themselves because of anti-self-defense laws written by politicians who cower behind heavily armed police bodyguards.
I am a victim of four attempted muggings in Chicago, and have used a concealed handgun twice in self-defense.
I am alive because I was armed.
Concealed carry works.
Victim disarmament does not.
