On Tuesday, September 2, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an Illinois concealed carry ban on the CTA and Metra public transportation lines is not unconstitutional, reversing a previous federal judge who found the law in violation under current Supreme Court standards. The original ruling came after four concealed carry permit holders sued the state over part of its 2013 Firearm Concealed Carry Act, claiming the law prevented them from carrying weapons for self-defense.
When the initial ruling was issued in 2024, U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston found that the state failed in its obligation to demonstrate any tradition of firearm regulation from the Founding era that would justify Illinois’s banning of concealed carry on trains, thus ruling the law violates the Second Amendment. Understanding, however, that this is the 7th Circuit, Democrats knew that an activist judge is never more than a stone’s throw away, which is why the Illinois attorney general, joined by Cook and DuPage County state’s attorneys, appealed their case to a more compromised authority.
“The Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to self-defense… It does not bar the people’s representatives from enacting laws — consistent with our nation’s historical tradition of regulation — that ensure public transportation systems remain free from accessible firearms,” according to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sorry, cupcake, but that’s precisely what the Second Amendment defends against. “Shall not be infringed” specifically tells you that there may be no law enacted that imposes on the people’s right to exercise this liberty. Your unwillingness to recognize this basic principle is why Americans don’t trust you, and likely why your parents have hated you your entire life.
The jesters of the 7th Circuit were not quite finished, however, as stupid always doubles down. This time, the appellate court used the same Supreme Court precedent cited by Johnston to determine a polar opposite conclusion, by finding the law “comfortably situated in a centuries-old practice of limiting firearms in sensitive and crowded, confined places,” according to the court. With no Founding era analogue to support such a statement, these worthless pettifoggers added that the Founding Fathers likely never envisioned people traveling around in “crowded and confined metal tubes.”
Sure, but I bet they didn’t imagine skyscrapers, malls, amusement parks, movie theaters, grocery stores, or any facility equipped with a telephone or a light bulb. I shouldn’t give these mental midgets any ideas. Seriously, let’s test this against the First Amendment. Does the freedom of speech and expression apply to the internet, television, radio, or even a phone call? But let’s not be dense to amuse the fools among us. This isn’t a real debate. It never was. It is an exercise in throwing feces at the wall and seeing what sticks, while snickering behind the sycophantic backs of those who support this anti-Second Amendment drivel.
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