McHenry Woman Featured in Tribune Concealed Carry Stories

The Chicago Tribune featured

The Chicago Tribune featured McHenry’s Michele  Frejek in an article about the new concealed carry law.

Missed this one a while back, but think you ought to see it.

On July 24th, the Chicago Tribune’s big story was about training requirements for the new concealed carry law.

The front page featured McHenry’s Michele Frejek “with her .38 special.”

The sub-headline of the article is interesting:

“Too strict or too lenient?  Firearm owners split on concealed carry law’s instruction standards.”

The McHenry woman runs and thinks it makes no sense that she has to depend on Mace to defend herself from potential predators.

That’s because people can’t carry their weapons in parks.

The McHenry County Conservation District has trails where women might be attacked.

While there is no prohibition in the concealed carry law about possession of weapons on Conservation District property, the MCCD has another rule preventing women (or others) from so protecting themselves.

Since so many trails are in the middle of nowhere, that does not male good sense to me.

On a related matter, former Congressman Joe Walsh has the placards you see here displayed in his McHenry home.  I saw them when I attended his Open House for Bill Prim, his choice for McHenry County Sheriff.

When I was running for Governor on the Libertarian Party ticket, I was a proponent of allowing people to carry weapons to defend themselves.

As I have mentioned before, Michigan had just enacted its concealed carry law and the gun control folks were in full shout out about the shoot-outs that would occur in the streets.

Pretty much what you have heard during the debate for passage of the much more restrictive law in Illinois and will hear as the law is implemented.

Sign in former Congressman Joe Walsh's home.

Sign in former Congressman Joe Walsh’s home.

Funny thing.

The worst-case scenarios promoted by Michigan opponents did not occur.

And, they won’t in Illinois.

What might happened, however, is that some woman like Frejek will get attacked and she will shoot a man trying to rape her.

When that happens for the first time, there will be enormous news coverage.

That, in turn, it is my hope and expectation, will put potential rapists on notice that any woman might be able to protect herself.

Since rapist are basically chickens, that is, afraid to even ask a woman out on a date, I believe such attacks will diminish.

They just won’t diminish as much as if the new law were not so expensive to qualify.

It’s so expensive that many inner city folks who need the protection the most will remain defenseless.

Of course, that may be a deliberate intent of the drafters, rather than an unintended consequence.


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McHenry Woman Featured in Tribune Concealed Carry Stories — 4 Comments

  1. It amazes me that the anti protection (with CC) crowd ignores the statistics all over the country on how, when a state gets CC, crime goes DOWN.

    ALWAYS.

    All they have to do is look at Obama’s Chicago, the most violent city, with the strictest gun laws.

    It’s pretty much a no brainer, one would think.

    Then look at Virginia, I believe, where gun sales have soared – and crime has gone down.

  2. The Illinois concealed carry law is a sham starting with the 23 or so banned CC locations that as we know some of which where most shooting have occurred.

    “They just won’t diminish as much as if the new law were not so expensive to qualify.

    It’s so expensive that many inner city folks who need the protection the most will remain defenseless.

    Of course, that may be a deliberate intent of the drafters, rather than an unintended consequence.”

    In my opinion you can bet your last dollar that what Michele Frejek stated is exactly what our so called leaders intended.

  3. The education system and the left have done a good job of trying to demonize your second amendment rights and concealed carry.

    As the poster above notes, all the data suggests concealed carry is a positive and not a negative.

    Moreover, as someone who has lived in Open Carry states, I contend that more citizens who can walk around openly with firearms makes for an even safer community.

    Oklahoma and Virginia are examples.

    The FBI statistic demonstrate this year after year.

    And even with the horrible concealed carry law we have now (at least we have SOMETHING) the data will be validated again.

    The book MORE GUNS – LESS CRIME is highly recommended reading.

    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/more-guns-less-crime-john-r-lott/1102993716?ean=9780226493664

  4. Just use Illinois draconian laws against it.

    Carry unloaded gun with loaded mags inside purse or pack.

    Always carry FOID card.

    Carry copy of Illinois vs McDade to present to any harassing official.

    If you are still harassed, you may have a pretty good civil suit.

    The downside is, you’d probably better have a sizable amount of cash, to pursue the issue in the courts, until you win.

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