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By John Birch, President, Concealed Carry, Inc., Oak Brook, IL, Tel: 630 660-3935 Email: john@...
COPS NOW PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONENO DOUBT ABOUT IT : THE ILLINOIS FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE (ILFOP) IS OUT TO DISARM CITIZENS
Don't be fooled. Anyone who says they want to ban one class of firearms really wants to ban all firearms. Yesterday we had the spectacle of ILFOP President Ted Street all kissy face with Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, endorsing Tammy Duckworth for congress. You are known by the company you keep Mr. Street.
The ILFOP speaks for every police officer in Illinois. Now I know some cops are not on board, but the bottom line is the police want to take your guns. They are willing to not only enforce any gun law passed, but they are now crossing the line and backing new laws, that would require you to turn in your guns to the police.
Two points you need to know about the ILFOP backed Assault Weapons Ban:
1) It has nothing to do with real military weapons. Those weapons have long been banned in Illinois, and tightly federally regulated in other states. DO NOT BE FOOLED. This is not about banning assault weapons, it is about...
2) The ILFOP backed ban would ban both the sale and possession. If you have a gun the cops don't like you must turn it in to them, or move it out of state.
Folks, this is gun confiscation, backed by the police and the use of deadly force against citizens. If you ask me if I support the police, I will tell you I do not. I see the police as a far worse threat than criminals.
And don't give me that "first responder" hooey. Citizens are the FIRST RESPONDERS, not the police. The police generally show up to take a police report after the incident has occurred.
If you don't believe the cops are after your guns, here are two exhibits. You will be required to think for yourself as you look at each one.
ILFOP President Ted Street can be contacted at: tstreet@...
EXHIBIT 1: ILFOP ENDORSEMENTS
EXHIBIT 2: ILFOP IN 11 OCT 2006 CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Gun law heats up race for Congress
Roskam challenged on assault weapons
By John Biemer and Christi ParsonsTribune staff reporters
October 11, 2006
After a series of school shootings nationwide, Democratic congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth called Tuesday for "sensible" gun laws while accusing her Republican opponent, state Sen. Peter Roskam, of being a "rubber stamp" for the National Rifle Association. (Yes Tammy, may I have another "sensible" gun law please?)
She pointed out that Roskam is "at odds" with Henry Hyde, the man they're trying to replace in the 6th Congressional District, on the federal assault-weapons ban that Republican leaders let expire two years ago. Hyde, who endorsed Roskam as his successor, broke party ranks to support the federal ban on 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons.
Roskam voted against a similar measure in the state legislature more than a decade ago and opposes the federal ban, which Duckworth supports. Roskam believes in enforcing laws already on the books to "keep guns out of the hands of criminals who'll abuse them and commit crimes," said his spokesman Ryan McLaughlin.
"Every gun can be considered a weapon, and what families in the 6th District want to make sure is those who use guns in violent crimes are penalized," McLaughlin said. "And Peter Roskam's record on that is very strong."
Duckworth, surrounded by Illinois Fraternal Order of Police President Ted Street and Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said at a Lombard news conference that Roskam is "not looking out for the best interests of the 6th District." Instead, he is doing the NRA's bidding in return for campaign contributions and foot soldiers in the GOP campaign, she said.
"He's voted consistently against sensible gun laws and it's basically whatever the NRA wants, Peter Roskam will vote for," Duckworth said.
Since the assault-weapons ban expired, gunfire has again become the leading cause of death for police officers in the line of duty, surpassing motor-vehicle accidents, Street said. (They were all killed by Assault Weapons? Come on Mr. Street I call "Bullshit," There is no link between your gun ban and officer deaths. If the police fear for their lives let them turn their gun and badge in and live like a common man instead of an elite member of society.)
"I have seen the effect of those weapons in military combat, and I can tell you there's no place for them in our communities or on our streets," Duckworth said, citing her experience in Iraq as a member of the Illinois Army National Guard. (Clearly this boobbette has no clue what this law is about. These proposed ban has nothing to do with military weapons.)
Duckworth also supports the Brady Law, which requires background checks for gun purchases from federally licensed firearm dealers.
Roskam has been the point man on several initiatives of importance to gun-rights groups in the Illinois General Assembly.
As a compromise last year, he sponsored a plan that included a measure to close the so-called "gun-show loophole," which allowed people to buy guns at shows without an instant background check as long as they had a firearm owner's identification card. But he tied that to a provision requiring the destruction of state records on gun sales, a database the NRA believes authorities use to harass and monitor law-abiding gun owners.
After some legislative maneuvering, the records-destruction part was not enacted into law, but gun-rights advocates credit Roskam with sparking an intense debate over gun control--and firing up their members for the current campaign season.
He has managed to pass several NRA-backed bills to improve background checks for gun purchases and to reduce access by criminals and other ineligible buyers.
"As a lawyer, Peter understands the law and that words mean things," NRA spokesman Todd Vandermyde said. "He has worked to craft and build support for laws that are effective."
The school shootings, including the killing of five Amish girls in Pennsylvania, are a reminder of the need for "common sense" gun laws, Helmke said. (One man's "common sense" is another man's gun confiscated.)
Although the assault-weapons ban may not have prevented that tragedy, it could have applied to a 13-year-old boy who fired an assault rifle Monday in a Missouri middle school. (One shot fired into the ceiling, ho hum.)
"You're never going to be able to stop everything but we make it too easy in this country to get the weapons that are going to cause the damages," Helmke said. (Helmke never bought a gun in Illinois for sure.)
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Gun law heats up race for Congress | Chicago Tribune
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