Below is a press release from State Senate candidate Cliff Surges. He is running agasint Karen McConnaughay.
Cliff Surges
Surges Announces Support for Illinois Concealed Carry law on Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day (IGOLD) in Springfield
Gilberts, IL – Cliff Surges, Republican candidate for the Illinois Senate in the 33rd district, has announced his strong support for passing a “Shall Issue” concealed carry law in Illinois.
Currently, Illinois is the only State in the United States, along with the District of Columbia, that completely outlaws its citizens from protecting themselves outside their homes and businesses.
Surges joins with the thousands of law-abiding gun owners from all over Illinois who are marching to the State Capitol today to demand that the Illinois General Assembly protect the 2nd Amendment rights of ALL law-abiding citizens in Illinois by passing a strong “Shall Issue” concealed carry law.
“I believe that at it’s core the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution provides for the right of EVERY law-abiding citizen in this Nation to keep and bear arms both inside and outside the home, and that includes the citizens of Illinois,” Surges says.
“When I am elected as Senator, I pledge to always protect the 2nd Amendment rights of the law-abiding citizens of Illinois, the 2nd Amendment could not be more clear when it says ‘…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed’.”
Thank You Very much for being a 2nd Amendment supporter, and for Supporting IGOLD and Concealed Carry Laws.
As the FBI statistics show, C.C.W. Laws have proven that crime has decreased in every state/community where the criminals know that they may have the tables turned on them, if they attempt to attack a person who may be lawfully carrying a weapon for self-defense.
The City of Chicago, being the last bastion of control-freak tactics, and ignorance of facts, when it comes to this topic has no right to control this entire state of law abiding citizens.
This C.C. topic has nothing to do with the gang violence in Chicago, and it never will; as the gangs/hoodlums will always find ways to procure or steal weapons to terrorize others and kill their rivals.
Maybe Chicago should do what N.Y.C. has been doing to eradicate their illegal weapon-carrying thugs?
And leave the rest of us alone.