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I wonder how much traction this story will get in the news? (A State senator moonlights as a security guard?)

 

http://www.sacbee.co...rest-shows.html

 

BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 5, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's arrest of Illinois State Sen. Donne Trotter by authorities at O'Hare International Airport for having a gun in his carry-on bag is a revealing look at the hypocrisy of anti-gunners, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

 

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Trotter was arrested at a security checkpoint early this morning. A candidate for the 2nd Congressional District seat vacated recently by Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., Trotter had a .25-caliber Beretta semiautomatic pistol in his bag. The Chicago Tribune said Trotter told police he worked late last night as a security guard and didn't realize the pistol was in his bag.

 

"Trotter is a South Side Democrat and he was a leader in the move to ban so-called 'assault weapons' during his first term as a state representative," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "A man who favored banning firearms for thousands of his fellow Illinois residents shouldn't even have a gun, much less be packing one illegally into an airport."

 

Trotter has reportedly been charged with one count of attempting to board an airplane with a weapon, which is a Class 4 felony.

 

"Senator Trotter, by his own action, has demonstrated the monumental hypocrisy of gun control advocates who try to disarm average citizens while reserving the right to bear arms for themselves alone," Gottlieb observed. "He should not even be serving in the state legislature, much less be running for a seat in Congress, which already has its share of gun prohibition hypocrites.

 

"Today's incident underscores just how pathetic the anti-gun philosophy has gotten," he concluded. "Perhaps now he will realize how other citizens feel when they run afoul of some anti-gun law or regulation. He should apologize to every gun owner in Illinois."

 

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

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Typical for the anti-gun liberals to rubberstamp themselves as being "of the people , for the people", when in reality they feel they are above the rest of us, and only want to push their socialist vitriol on the masses of sheeple and NOT themselves.

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I would criticize him more for carrying a .25 ACP...

 

That actually has me scratching my head. Why would a security guard be carrying a .25 ACP. It doesn't seem like the kind of weapon that a security guard would carry. Unless the .25 ACP was his BUG and he left his .38 special at home or in the locker at work.

 

Or maybe he has a real job and used a crony friend to give him a "part time" job as a security guard just so he could CCW in a state that doesn't allow CCW.

 

That, I could see.

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