Illinois
Should Citizens Be Allowed to Carry Firearms? While the "right to carry" law is being debated in Springfield, some people here in the Quad Cities already have their doubts about the bill.
"I've been held up at gunpoint before," said Andrea Wunderlich, "as a rape victim."
The bill would allow anyone to carry a concealed weapon as long as they pass a training course. Iowa already has a "reasonable issue" law and pistol range owner Steve Bartels says it would be a good law for Illinois to adopt as well.
"There is an old saying: 'An armed society is a polite society'," says Bartels. "If the bad guys don't know who's carrying, they are less likely to rob someone."
But others say that carrying a gun wouldn't make them feel safer out on the streets. They find it hard to believe that a criminal would think twice.
"If they are going to shot you, they are going to shoot you," says Mike Dunbar. "I don't think it would make a difference."
"Look at all the school shootings," says Wunderlich. "That's a concern as well, with all the kids getting ahold of guns too."
The bill has already passed a house committee. It will now go before the whole House of Representatives.
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