- cross-posted to:
- chicago@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- chicago@midwest.social
“If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm. One that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country,” Pritzker said. “Over the weekend, we learned from the media that Donald Trump has been planning for quite a while now to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago. This is exactly the type of overreach that our country’s founders warned against.”
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth: “Donald Trump never had the courage himself to raise his right hand and serve his country in uniform, but let me just say from personal experience - and that consists of 23 years in the military, 17 of which, proudly as a member of the Illinois National Guard - that the men and women who are brave enough to wear this country’s flag on their shoulder are doing so to defend our nation’s rights and freedoms, not to protect a tin-pot dictator’s thin skin or to police their own neighbors,” she said. “It’s not what they signed up for, and it’s certainly not what their training is focused on.”
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin: “Make no mistake, the threat of federal troops to Chicago is not a serious effort to reduce crime in the neighborhoods of this city or state,” Durbin said. “If it were a serious effort, it would be a coordinated effort with the mayor, the governor, law enforcement officials at all levels.”
“This is not about fighting crime,” Pritzker added, saying there is “no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention.” “This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.”
“Hopefully the president will reconsider this dangerous and misguided encroachment upon our state and our city’s sovereignty. Hopefully rational voices, if there are any left inside the White House or the Pentagon, will prevail in the coming days. If not, we’re going to face an unprecedented and difficult time ahead,” he said. “But I know you, Chicago, and I know you are up to it.”
Ed note: I posted a similar post earlier, this is more of the transcript of what he said. It’s better.
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In Chicago (Illnois, really), you need to have a Firearm Owners ID (FOID) card in order to legally possess a firearm. These are elementary to get: application and photo, minimal fee. If you want to conceal carry, you need an additional CCL endorsement on that FOID, which requires 16 hours of classroom, a very easy shooting test, moderate fee. Open carry is not legal in Illinois. Legal rifle capacity is limited to ten rounds, and legal pistol capacity is limited to 15 rounds.
In case anyone needed to know.
Illinois does not reciprocate conceal carry permits with any other state. In case anyone needed to know.
Unfortunate you are ineligible if you have a medical marijuana license, take noteEdit: I’m wrong, and delighted to be so.
The FFL form for ownsership transfer asks:
Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.
By my reading, unless you’re smoking a blunt while filling out the form you’re fine.
Oh, and you’re not ineligible.
You have just made my year. I don’t know how I got misinformed, but thank you for stopping the spread.
According to the above link, if you read down a ways, the legislation that made medical legal in IL did disqualify from FOID holding, but the 2019 act making recreational legal in IL changed that. You probably learned in between those two.
Shit’s complicated, we exist to inform each other. Your comment made me look it up and discover for myself, and I appreciate that.
“if you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.”
The empty threat. Trump can’t be charged for a crime he does as president, and he can literally do whatever he wants including arrest him for saying that.
He was talking to the National Guardsman that show up.
Still empty threats.
It’s not much, but maybe someone here will care.
There was a gigantic Trump banner on a building in a medium Illinois city that I drove past a few times a week.
I flipped it off and yelled at it (as loud as I could) every time I passed.
It was finally taken down a couple weeks ago.
Not sure if it was me, or the wind, or the people that put it up changed their minds or others changed it for them.
…But it’s gone now, which makes that section of that city’s Broadway much more beautiful.
There is hope. Don’t give up. That’s what they want.
I should clarify, hand out the window, middle finger held high. Fuck that guy.
Lets be clear that the transcript of what three people said. Im not even wild about duckworth but she is miles ahead of the best republican.
You’re right, I should have made that clearer. I think I thought it was all him. I’ll bold out who said what. Thanks for mentioning that.
Let’s not lionize billionaires just because they’re Democrats.
Edit: your boos mean nothing to me if billionaires can make you cheer. I die on this hill.
