Comments for Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar http://capitolfax.com Your Illinois news radar Thu, 23 May 2013 06:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 Comment on This just in… House’s concealed carry bill surfaces by G. Willickers http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305957 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:54:20 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305957 Why does the NRA get special treatment with its own seat on the state commission? Shouldn't Illinois Council on Handgun Violence, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Americans for Responsible Solutions or Brady Campaign (or all 4) be given a place at the table for balance? Why does the NRA get special treatment with its own seat on the state commission?

Shouldn’t Illinois Council on Handgun Violence, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Americans for Responsible Solutions or Brady Campaign (or all 4) be given a place at the table for balance?

]]> Comment on This just in… House’s concealed carry bill surfaces by G. Willickers http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305956 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:39:10 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305956 For this guy, an NRA-sponsored bill to allow loaded guns will come too late to carry out his plan... https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229833/ If he lived in Arizona he might've already done it. A lot easier to do there. Luckily, no Rams were hurt. For this guy, an NRA-sponsored bill to allow loaded guns will come too late to carry out his plan…

https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229833/

If he lived in Arizona he might’ve already done it. A lot easier to do there.

Luckily, no Rams were hurt.

]]> Comment on This just in… House’s concealed carry bill surfaces by John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305950 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:15:37 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305950 >>>>> No one is for gun fights on buses or trains. It’s a silly, irrational fear. No one is for gun fights anywhere. The gun fights that break out now are not by civilians with CCW and FOID cards. And those gun fights might reduce under CCW in Illinois (+Chicago). >>>>> No one is for gun fights on buses or trains. It’s a silly, irrational fear.

No one is for gun fights anywhere. The gun fights that break out now are not by civilians with CCW and FOID cards. And those gun fights might reduce under CCW in Illinois (+Chicago).

]]> Comment on This just in… House’s concealed carry bill surfaces by Allen Skillicorn http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305931 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:02 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305931 STL - I suspect if someone pulls out the weapon to holster it, the weapon will be visible and they could be guilty of brandishing. They would need to find a private place to holster or leave an unloaded weapon in their backpack (same as we have now). No one is for gun fights on buses or trains. It's a silly, irrational fear. STL - I suspect if someone pulls out the weapon to holster it, the weapon will be visible and they could be guilty of brandishing. They would need to find a private place to holster or leave an unloaded weapon in their backpack (same as we have now).

No one is for gun fights on buses or trains. It’s a silly, irrational fear.

]]> Comment on Not quite by anon http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/not-quite-4/#comment-11305930 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:59:58 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/not-quite-4/#comment-11305930 Pfft common sense gun controls. You can give an 18 year old a weapon in the military and trust them with it -- but not on the streets of the USA. Pfft common sense gun controls.

You can give an 18 year old a weapon in the military and trust them with it — but not on the streets of the USA.

]]> Comment on Griffin lashes out at critic by Chicago Cynic http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/griffin-lashes-out-at-critic/#comment-11305929 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:53:54 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/griffin-lashes-out-at-critic/#comment-11305929 OW, I stand corrected - you're right that it's Camelot. Doh! And I still don't know how you have so much time to be so prolific. OW,

I stand corrected - you’re right that it’s Camelot. Doh! And I still don’t know how you have so much time to be so prolific.

]]> Comment on Trib pens “Dear John” letter by Michelle Flaherty http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/trib-pens-dear-john-letter/#comment-11305928 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:44:19 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/trib-pens-dear-john-letter/#comment-11305928 Nekritz's numbers may do more flips in the coming days than she does in Memorial Day parades. News conf seems a little desperate. Is someone feeling the big mo shifting? Nekritz’s numbers may do more flips in the coming days than she does in Memorial Day parades.
News conf seems a little desperate. Is someone feeling the big mo shifting?

]]> Comment on *** UPDATED x1 *** Today’s “prayer request” by zatoichi http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/todays-prayer-request/#comment-11305918 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:21:11 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/todays-prayer-request/#comment-11305918 I have been coaching youth football for over 8 years. Every year the sex/drug/alcohol questions come up from some player. Single parents, parochial school, rich/poor. Pick what ever social category you want. Abstinence may be the preferred topic, but the questions we have gotten often go far beyond that. A blunt question gets a blunt answer with a discussion of responsibility, effects of behavior, and a suggestion to talk with parents. Amazing numbers of kids say that last part could not happen. Just a process that is thousands of years old. I have been coaching youth football for over 8 years. Every year the sex/drug/alcohol questions come up from some player. Single parents, parochial school, rich/poor. Pick what ever social category you want. Abstinence may be the preferred topic, but the questions we have gotten often go far beyond that. A blunt question gets a blunt answer with a discussion of responsibility, effects of behavior, and a suggestion to talk with parents. Amazing numbers of kids say that last part could not happen. Just a process that is thousands of years old.

]]> Comment on This just in… House’s concealed carry bill surfaces by John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305917 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:16:20 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/this-just-in-houses-concealed-carry-bill-surfaces/#comment-11305917 >>>>> what prevents someone from holstering their weapon upon exiting a train? There are no more phone booths. >>>>> what prevents someone from holstering their weapon upon exiting a train?

There are no more phone booths.

]]> Comment on Not quite by CrookCounty60827 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/not-quite-4/#comment-11305916 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:51:01 +0000 http://capitolfax.com/2013/05/22/not-quite-4/#comment-11305916 Rich beats Faux News-style "reporting" every time! As for the 7th being "out of the mainstream", it only takes one to change history... Rich beats Faux News-style “reporting” every time!
As for the 7th being “out of the mainstream”, it only takes one to change history…

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