The war on guns for the next year is already in motion.

[Roc Rat]

Got this today in an e-mail,,,,


I received the following political/gun related from the ISRA and Illinois carry. Watch out who you give money to, vote for and whose yard signs you display,and who you volunteer for. Also watch out what these people say and don't say, or talk around versus straight answers. Tribune lists the same responses
A recent survey by the Associated Press of nearly a dozen gubernatorial candidates who are vying for your vote in the upcoming February primary election gives a clear picture of who supports your right to keep and bear arms and who doesn't even begin to understand the words ". . . shall not be infringed".
RIGHT ANSWERS
QUESTION: Would you sign or veto legislation allowing concealed-carry for handguns?
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Adam Andrzejewski: "I would sign it. ... Law abiding citizens have this right."
Bill Brady: "Constitutional rights should be afforded to eligible, law-abiding Illinois citizens, and therefore concealed carry should be legalized.
Kirk Dillard: "With proper training and thorough background checks, and dependent upon the exact language drafted in the legislation, I could support allowing concealed-carry for handguns as almost every other state in the nation has done."
Dan Proft: "I would sign right to carry legislation."
WRONG ANSWERS FOLLOW
Andy McKenna: "I am opposed to concealed-carry legislation."
Jim Ryan: "I would veto. I believe reasonable people can differ on this issue but on balance, drawing from my experience as a law enforcement official, I believe we are better off without concealed-carry."
Bob Schillerstrom: "I would veto legislation allowing concealed carry for handguns. I am a supporter of the Second Amendment; however, I do not believe that concealed carry is a solution for reducing crime in the State of Illinois."
DEMOCRAT PARTY
Dan Hynes: Hynes didn't take a position on concealed carry in general but did say he opposes a new law letting people bring concealed guns into someone else's home even if they have permission.
Pat Quinn: "I would veto legislation allowing concealed-carry for handguns."
William "Dock" Walls: "I would veto conceal and carry legislation."
GREEN PARTY
Rich Whitney: "I would sign legislation allowing concealed-carry or open carry -- although ... I would prefer that any such legislation allow Individual counties to opt out if they so chose."

On the question of signing a state wide "assault-style" weapons ban:
RIGHT ANSWERS
Would Veto a ban banning your firearms
Andrzejewski (R)

Brady (R)
Schillerstrom (R)
Proft (R)



WRONG ANSWERS
Would Support a ban banning your firearms
Ryan (R)

Hynes (D)
Quinn (D)
Walls (D)
Whitney
(G)
No answer or no straight answer which is not a good answer
Dillard(R)
McKenna(R)

From the ISRA
JIM RYAN DECLARES WAR ON LAW-ABIDING ILLINOIS GUN OWNERS

In an Associated Press wire story released yesterday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan pledged to sign a ban on “Assault Weapons” and promised to veto any “Concealed Carry” legislation that reaches his desk.
In making these pronouncements, Jim Ryan was very clear that he would wholeheartedly support legislation that would result in the ban and confiscation of most of the guns in your safe. You would have two choices – either surrender your banned firearms to the police, or the police will be kicking down your door to take them. Ryan could not have made the point any clearer.

Ryan was equally clear about your right to defend yourself. By pledging to veto concealed carry legislation, Ryan is telling you that he would rather see you unarmed, being beaten and humiliated by a gang of hooligans than to see you with a gun in your hand. Ryan also has a message for your wife, your mother, your daughter, your girlfriend. That message is that he would rather see her laying dead in an alley with her pantyhose knotted around her neck than to see her with a gun in her hand. Ryan could not have made the point any clearer.

Just as he did in the 2002 gubernatorial race, Jim Ryan has proven himself to be cut from the same cloth as Chicago Democrats such as Richie Daley, Barack Obama, and Rod Blagojevich.
Any gun owner who would vote for Jim Ryan has to be out of his or her mind.
Please forward this alert to all your gun owning friends.
Please post this alert to any and all blogs or bulletin boards to which you belong.

Please make a promise to yourself, right now, this moment, that you will not let yourself be pushed around and lied to by guys like Jim Ryan.

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