Inside an anti's mind: If you stop these gang members from shooting and killing, I'll support CCW

Can someone please explain the bolded part of the following quotation to me? Pretty please with a cherry on top? (I won't be able to come back for a few hours, but I will come back.)



What?!!! Gang members don't have carry permits. If there is an exception, he won't after his first felony conviction. What do gang bangers have to do with CCW? Why should an honest black man who has managed to keep a perfect felony record while living in the 'hood (or in Illinois for that matter) be penalized for the crimes of others? For that matter, why should an old asian woman be punished because of gang bangers?

In what way does it make sense to make stopping criminals from harming each other a prerequisite for allowing the innocent to have the tools to defend themselves from crime?

I think critical thinking / logic should be a required subject to graduate high school. I really hope this woman was misquoted or misrepresented.

She has some sense and a somewhat open mind. Eventually she'll come around, she is able to think outside the box for a Chicago politician:

"She added that an educational program needs to be developed for urban children to learn more about responsible gun use."

That is a big deal for a Chicago pol.

(I meant to include this in the OP.)

Why would you think that? CCW is for self-defense.

honest people shouldn't be allowed to carry weapons for defense against crime.

No one was suggesting that the CCW permittees were going to fight gangs.

can get more guns. These bad guys will shoot someone just for being there. How many CCW can or will shoot the bad guys first under the circumstances or for just for being on the streets somewhere? The odds are way in favor of the bad guys acquiring more guns here.

it would be the reverse. Every CCW I know grew up with guns like I did. The ones who didn't are likely to go for training. The average gang banger, they spray and hit innocents and miss the rival.

Based on what you have written it seems a lot of bad assumptions have taken place.

If the bad guys can't get guns then they use knives, clubs, fists, etc. I am too old to try to fight a twenty something mugger, but my gun gives me that ability to resist an attack. In real life, in the many states that have shall-issue your prediction has NOT come true. Shall-issue CCW has not been a problem in any state that has enacted it, and that is about 40 states.

making it easier for any felon to have one.

potential crimes of the guilty?

Chicago has already been partially brought to heel on the guns in the home issue. They may be thrashing and sputtering in trying to make it as hard as possible and in defining a "home" as narrowly as possible, but they cannot stop guns in the home.