A little short
Majority wins on CCW in Illinois, but more than that is needed:
The House voted 65-32 in favor of the concealed-carry bill, with one member voting “present.” But the measure needed 71 votes to pass because it would pre-empt home-rule of cities.
One voted “present”? Obama keep his day job?
May 6th, 2011 at 11:57 am
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. š
May 6th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Is it, could it be that in “the Land of Lincoln” that slavery will be rolled back?
May 6th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Representative Phelps had to play a parliamentary trick to save it from completely failing. By calling for a move to reconsider before all the votes were tallied, he disrupted the vote and kept it from having to start all over again as a new bill. Three of the 71 votes he had counted on flipped to “No” or “Present,” so if he hadn’t called for the motion to reconsider it would have lost with 68 votes. This gives Phelps a chance to get the three not-yes votes back into line.
Note that there were 20 representatives who did not vote at all for whatever reason. Some of them may also flip to a yes vote, but it’s doubtful.
May 6th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Seems like 33 people need a nice little visit in the night…
May 6th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
ATLien – I thik that’s a little uncalled for.
May 6th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
People who won’t let you have liberty (or actively want to take it from you) deserve what? Candy?
May 7th, 2011 at 8:11 am
ATLien, the answer to your question is that they deserve to be voted out of office. I don’t care to live in a country where we kill those who don’t vote the way we want. This isn’t Iran.
May 7th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
So the “home-rule” of cities” may violate the Bill of Rights and preserve the chief vestige of slavery in “the Land of Lincoln”???
“…The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave, it being the ultimate means by which freedom was to be preserved.”
— James Burgh, 18th century English Libertarian writer, Shalhope, The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment, p.604