“A year from now there will not be a Chicago handgun ban,” said Alan Gura, the attorney representing the gun owners fighting the ban.
The high court’s five-member conservative majority last year threw out Washington, D.C.’s gun ban in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, but stopped short of invalidating the rest of the country’s handgun bans because that case dealt with federal bans, not local ones.
But gun control advocates and even city of Chicago officials have been bracing for the high court’s firmer embrace of the Second Amendment, which includes a right to bear arms.
“It’s going to be very difficult for Chicago not to have to make the adjustments D.C. had to make,” said Paul Heimke, president of the Brady Campaign against Gun Violence.
At a news conference in Chicago Wednesday,
Gura predicted the crime rate will drop in Chicago if handguns are legalized again, because, he said, would-be burglars would opt not to break into homes for fear owners could be armed.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1799122,chicago-gun-ban-supreme-court-093009.article Throughout America, gun control advocates have predicted "blood in the streets" and shootouts to settle minor traffic accidents if liberal concealed carry laws passed. They have repeatedly been proven wrong.
Here is a prominent gun rights advocate going on the record with his own bold predictions. I agree that the Chicago gun ban will fall, though I am far from certain. I also predict that Chicago home invasion crime will either fall or fail to rise along with the rest of the country. In other words, if home invasions rise nationwide--due to causes having nothing to do with Chicago laws--home invasions in Chicago may rise too, but they will not rise as fast as predicted by the rise in the rest of the country, because some crime will be deterred by the removal of the gun ban.
Those are my predictions. Anyone else care to go on the record?