Robbery suspect killed at AA meeting place - Local / Metro - The State: "The AA visitor who fired his weapon and killed the suspect had a concealed weapons permit, police said...This is the second time in five weeks that a person with a concealed weapons permit has killed a person in the Midlands. In early March, an Irmo pizza delivery man shot and killed an attacker who telephoned in a phony order. In that case, pizza man Christopher Miller shot and killed Paul Andrew Sturgill, 17, as Sturgill and three others tried to rob him, police said."
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And if there were CCW holders in Illinois, as in South Carolina, there would be fewer robberies here. I realize there is room to differ on the scope of the Second Amendment and whether it should be incorporated into the 14th Amendment due process clause so it would restrict the states. But there is another way to see this. The most fundamental human right is self-preservation. People have the right to defend themselves, and to me that includes the right to have the means of effective self-defense, such as personal possession of firearms and the right to carry them. Background checks, training, and other limits are part of the deal. But here in Illinois there is no such thing as a carry permit, and that is just wrong.
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