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Posted: 4:28 PM Oct 28, 2008
Ogle County Concealed Carry Referendum
Ogle County voters will be asked to vote for or against a referendum that would encourage state law makers to enact laws allowing concealed carry in Illinois.
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When Ogle County voters head to the polls next Tuesday they will be asked to vote on a concealed carry referendum. The Ogle County concealed carry advisory referendum asks whether or not the state legislature should enact laws to allow citizens to carry concealed firearms. Opinion on the issue is divided throughout the county, but the majority of early voters we spoke with today support concealed carry.
"They should be able to carry them for their own safety because the way the world is today you don't know when you're going to get car jacked" says Katie Sills of Creston.
"If you pick up a copy of the Constitution it says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and we've been infringing on that one for over 100 years." says Dick Bird of Oregon.
"I really don't think that concealed carry is a good idea. I think if you're going to have a gun it ought to be visible to other people." says Marsha Taulbee of Ogle County. The concealed carry referendum is also on the ballot for Winnebago County.
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The people who jump thru all the hoops to qualify & obtain a ccw license are not the people who commit crime. This is guaranteed: Criminals voted "NO" on Tuesday. In EVERY state that has ccw, crime rates have dropped and all the dire vigilante blood-in-the-streets predictions haved proved false. CCW is good law... "An armed society is a polite society" I grew up in Oregon, IL and now hold a KY CCW license which is valid across the nation, except in IL and WI, the only 2 states that disallow ccw. Needless to say, I'll not move back to IL and I visit very rarely.
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I support CCW permits for Illinois. I have a CCW permit from Utah and Florida that are good to carry in about 30 states. They have classes at gun ranges and they take about 4 or 5 hours. I live in the murder capital of the United Stated and Mayor Daley still doen't get it. Handguns have been illegal in Chicago for 20 years and just about every gang member still is carrying one on them. He needs to understand it is not the guns but these criminals that are murdering each other. Him and ROD think Illinois people must be less capable to make their own mind up on weather we should carry a weapon to protect our family from these people with no respect for life, but then again Rod and Daley have never been pro-life.
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I agree with the posted comments so far,and would like to add one more thing.Voting yes on the referendum does not make it law.It is basically just an attempt to let the legislators know what we would like for them to consider.It's sort of like having our own "wish list" of proposals.So like Kenny said,atleast do a little research on the subject before you vote if you are unsure.
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