Posted on 01/16/2014 5:30:21 AM PST by rellimpank
SPRINGFIELD — In small towns Downstate, murders may happen once every 50 to 100 years, if that frequently, and the worst crimes might be a meth lab getting busted or someone driving away from a gasoline pump without paying.
Yet, these extremely low-crime pockets of the state are precisely where people appear to be lining up the fastest to apply for state permits to carry concealed handguns, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of concealed-carry applications submitted so far to the Illinois State Police.
By contrast, in Cook County, gun owners appear to be moving the slowest to apply for the concealed-carry permits, causing the state’s most populous county to rank dead last of all 102 Illinois counties on a per capita basis, data shows.
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In most places, a CCW permit is a permit to carry a concealed weapon. In some places, it’s a “kick me” sign. In the latter places, why would anyone bother?
I have yet to meet a person from Chicago that is not a liar, backstabber, and scoundrel.
I know that they exist, it is just that there are so few of them.
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