Michael1942's Blog

The mayor of Chicago after proposing a State wide handgun registration for entire state, with a fee on each firearm (Chicago has one) to control the illegal guns coming into the city of Chicago, is meeting with the Peoria businessmen and elected officials. This proposal so far has gone nowhere, the Executive committee has passed this proposal on to the full Legislature with no action on their part. To be clear no amount of additional legislature will curb the purchase and illegal use of firearms. The legal firearms owners have state issued and required Firearms Identification cards which they pay to renew when due. Now the mayor has visited Peoria Illinois to speak to local business people and elected officials to tell them that after all of these years that the tension between Chicago and downstate Illinois isn’t constructive. Yahoo!. This will  not help the situation until the Chicago politicians (this includes our State Leader) understand the other part of the state . As a former resident of Chicago I can tell you the people in Chicago are not happy with the state of the State or Chicago. This meeting is no more than a ploy to gain an edge with the legislators to get “his” work done. Chicago like the “other” part of the State has financial woes which can no longer be solved by more taxes on gasoline, sales tax and other fees, some of which have quadrupled over the years. When ALL of the people we have elected begin to act like servants of the people we may begin to make progress.