[HiTech RedNeck]

In contrast, our citizens have never really resonated to "Illinois," the name of a feckless confederation of tribes of so-called superior men, who in fact fled time and again--and indeed out of our state--before smaller bands of raiding Iroquois.

Well befits the state which has the most chicken attitude toward guns out of the whole 50.

[pt17]

Well befits the state which has the most chicken attitude toward guns out of the whole 50

Times have certainly changed. When I was a teenager in central IL, country seat town, we used to go downtown to buy bullets at the hardware store carrying our rifles and pistols. It was as natural as carrying a sack of groceries. Our dads, who were WWII vets, taught us gun handling, safety and maintenance. I still remember my dad showing me how to cock an army 45 one-handed.