[DieHard the Hunter]

(chuckle!)

Somehow you Yanks need to arrive at a reasonable balance: how to make sure those folk who are smart enough to carry guns can always do so without government interference, balanced against keeping guns out of the hands of knuckleheads and crims.

This story tells me you ain’t got that balance quite right yet. But it was Hell Funny all the same!

[mamelukesabre]

Don’t be a fool.

This is the price we pay for legal guns. It’s damn well worth it.

[seowulf]

...how to make sure those folk who are smart enough to carry guns can always do so without government interference...

Hey, we're all smart enough to carry guns. Some of us just aren't smart enough to stay off the ice though.

[Hugin]

To paraphrase Lincoln, you can stop some of the idiots all of the time, you may even stop all of the idiots some of the time, but you can’t stop all of the idiots all of the time.

Chalk it up to the price of freedom.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Somehow you Yanks need to arrive at a reasonable balance: how to make sure those folk who are smart enough to carry guns can always do so without government interference, balanced against keeping guns out of the hands of knuckleheads and crims.

Given that this was, apparently, suburban Chicago, there is a high likelihood that the gun was possessed illegally.