I would like to raise a few points in response to the Northern Star’s editorial on Friday.

Every Constitutional right entails a potential for its abuse and a concomitant endangerment to society; the reasoning the Board employs would effectively eliminate every right we have. Regulating our rights in the name of safety is a slippery slope which should only be ventured upon with the utmost caution, strictly limited to laws no broader than necessary to be expedient.

In that vein, HB4393 was clearly little more than legislative self-gratification, the appearance that something was being done without actually accomplishing anything. There is no way it would have deterred criminals from getting guns. If anything at all, it would only have served to frustrate law-abiding gun owners in their constructive activities.

Einstein once said that doing more of the same thing and expecting a different result is insanity. Illinois already has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, yet are we a shining example of crime control?

Not by any measure. Maybe it’s time we take a cue from the majority of the other states and move in a more efficacious direction on this issue.

Kevin O’Connor
Law student

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