In Chicago (Illnois, really), you need to have a Firearm Owners ID (FOID) card in order to legally possess a firearm. These are elementary to get: application and photo, minimal fee. If you want to conceal carry, you need an additional CCL endorsement on that FOID, which requires 16 hours of classroom, a very easy shooting test, moderate fee. Open carry is not legal in Illinois. Legal rifle capacity is limited to ten rounds, and legal pistol capacity is limited to 15 rounds.

In case anyone needed to know.

Lets be clear that the transcript of what three people said. Im not even wild about duckworth but she is miles ahead of the best republican.

"if you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

The empty threat. Trump can’t be charged for a crime he does as president, and he can literally do whatever he wants including arrest him for saying that.

It's not much, but maybe someone here will care.

There was a gigantic Trump banner on a building in a medium Illinois city that I drove past a few times a week.

I flipped it off and yelled at it (as loud as I could) every time I passed.

It was finally taken down a couple weeks ago.

Not sure if it was me, or the wind, or the people that put it up changed their minds or others changed it for them.

..But it's gone now, which makes that section of that city's Broadway much more beautiful.

There is hope. Don't give up. That's what they want.

Let's not lionize billionaires just because they're Democrats.

Edit: your boos mean nothing to me if billionaires can make you cheer. I die on this hill.