The revenge for NO confiscations will be served in later lawsuits. Let us hope that some productive revenge can be served in Chicago.
As we transition from a society with rural roots to one where most youth have no connection with hunting or the sporting use of firearms, the issue of concealed carry becomes highly beneficial to the Second Amendment.
I know that in Missouri, once the number of concealed carry permitees exceeded 10,000, it became a large enough block of voters that it has not escaped the attention of politicians. So, CCW itself can become a political factor. Of course, Illinois has this hurdle to overcome, and it seems that there is a police-state mentality in some of its law enforcement community. That cancer will take years to flush out, assuming someone who recogizes it is able to be elected to an office where they can do something about it.
Barring that, people who love liberty are just going to have to find it elsewhere.
In New Orleans, not a single officer was shot while illegally confiscating legally owned firearms. Some would say that gun owners should have resisted with force, but I would say it shows that citizens showed a higher form of civility and citizenship. The RKBA was strengthened by the way NO gun owners acted, for NO is now used as an example of exactly why the RKBA exists and why it must be protected. Had some officers or citizens died in a dispute over the confiscation, the incident would have just been useful to the gun-grabbers as fodder to prove how dangerous guns and gun owners are.
An elderly woman had a handgun, and members of a swat team were observed taking it away from her by force — and this appears to have been reported in a bad light.
Secondly, it appears that there were several “armed homeowner groups” that the SWAT teams never quite made it to in order to confiscate their guns. I don’t remember this being reported widely, but it appears that it happened.
Does anyone have links to news stories about either of these instances???