Concealed Carry Reduced Crime But NOT on Chicago Mass Transit

By Ammoland

Illinois –-(Ammoland.com)- On Sunday, Mother’s Day, for a second time in two weeks, a woman was attacked and raped on a Chicago elevated train.

Of course, we are told we are all safer because we can’t carry self defense guns on mass transit.

Concealed Carry has lowered crime rates except where there are gun free zones. Mass transit is one of those places. Each day thousands of vulnerable people board mass transit systems because they have no choice.

We need to give them a choice that would allow them to protect themselves instead of making mass transit systems a free smorgasbord for criminals.

The one bright spot in the unfavorable ruling by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the Friedman v. City of Highland Park case came in the dissenting opinion written by Judge Manion.

Judge Manion pointed out that “the right to self-defense is largely meaningless if it does not include the right to choose the most effective means of defending one’s self.”

If you recall the majority found the Highland Park ordinance constitutional because it “may increase the public’s sense of safety.” The majority opinion was …read more

Source:: AmmoLand