Knee-jerk reactions - alive & well in Illinois

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Man, oh man. Look at the eagerness in the Illinois Senate to rip guns away from law-abiding citizens.

Illinois legislators can't figure out how to end homicides (506 in 2012) in Chicago (Chicago is still in Illinois, isn't it?), so their solution is "Take the guns away from the people who obey laws."

At 5:30PM yesterday Illinois Senators in a sub-committee jumped on bills and passed them, because the Democrats held the majority in the sub-committee. The bills could be voted on as early as today by the full Senate.

I'm sure each is well thought out, well worded, carefully considered, fully researched. Yeah, sure... Like about everything else that the Illinois legislature does.

What if all the law-abiding people in Illinois just packed up and left? Go on; abandon homes and jobs. Pack up household furnishings and guns. Move out-of-state. Just mail the deed on the house (that's underwater) back to the bank with a Good Luck note.

Let the criminals take over. Let Rahm Emanuel have his Chicago full of criminals and their illegal guns. He has his bodyguards; former Mayor Daley has his armed bodyguards (why?). I'm sure Gov. Pat Quinn has State Police bodyguards.

Many of the aldermen are packing. I wonder how many of them could hit the broadside of a barn, even if they were standing inside it.

Do Cullerton and Madigan have protection? Why? You and I don't.

These bills (HB0815 and HB1263) by Sen. Dan Kotowski (D-33 (Park Ridge)) and by Sen. Antonio Muñoz (D-1 (Chicago)), respectively, are nothing but a blatant attempt to seize the guns owned by law-abiding citizens. Those guys, and many of their buddies, are dangerous to your health.

Former Texas legislator Suzanna Gratia Hupp said it correctly. If you don't know her story, watch it below. Her parents were murdered in 1991. She had left her gun in her car, to avoid violating Texas law. The Second Amendment is to protect us from them (the legislators). She was referring to members of a Congressional sub-committee, but her words apply equally to Kotowski, Muñoz and their ilk.