Human Rights in Illinois

Here is a site focused on gun rights, largely in the state of Illinois:

concealcarry.org/

While having the URL of a traditional website, it is a blog. Devoted to gun rights, although it sometimes gets off topic and is more of a conservative punditry site.

Given that the mainstream media is almost uniformily anti-gun, this proves that the new media outlets have to provide the fodder for pro-gun positions. People have an irrational fear of guns - "because they are designed to kill" (well, duh!) - so they wish to ban all of them. However, those whose activism is focused primarily on anti-gun efforts take the most dishonest position for almost any group of activists on any issue. Both pro-lifers and pro-choicers have more honest arguments, both pro-death penality and anti-death penalty people have more honest arguments, both single-payer advocates and traditional free-enterprise health care advocates have more honest arguments. The only people who are more dishonest are communists. And no, the anti-global warming crowd is not being dishonest, because much data that would support their position is being suppressed, and no honest debate has had the opportunity to present itself here.

So, despite the fact that statistics show that armed societies are much safer than disarmed societies, the gun-grabbers choose to ignore all this data and insist on grabbing our guns. Actually, they lie. They first demand registration, saying it will not lead to confiscation. Once that is done, they push for confiscation. They abuse their trust, millions of gun-owners know this, which is why the NRA is one of the largest advocacy groups in this nation. And, intestingly, while the left advocates for human rights and social justice, they ignore the fact that depriving one of the means for self defense is a gross human rights violation (de-clawing cats is considered an animal-rights violation), and an oppressed, armed populace is in the best position to correct social injustice.

Now, enough of my own advocacy. I return to reviewing the blog. This site only provides anectodal stories. Nothing new is revealed. We pro-gunners already know the arguments. Other groups, like the NRA and Jews for the Protection of Firearms Ownership, do a much better job of providing arguments in their literature.

Also, too narrowly focused on Illinois. Illinois is one of the most anti-gun states - one still cannot get a concealed carry permit here, and it has some sort of registration, and it has gun-control advocacy politicians (as opposed to anti-gun politicians who merely provide a vote for the anti-gun position). And yet again, I get alerts from the NRA telling everything that is bad regarding Blagojevich and mayor Daley. The NRA does a better job.

Thus, despite my agreement with the position of this blog, it is not really that good of a blog, other organizations do a better job at presenting all the arguments, and I must give it a lower grade than I would really like to.

Grade: C+