Compare: Illinois Governor Candidates' Views On Concealed Carry

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🗓️ 13 March 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A concerned citizen poses questions about violence and the state’s new law allowing people to carry concealed guns. We find a surprising lack of consensus among the candidates and researchers, too.

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm political reporter Alex Keefe, and this is WBZ's Curious City.
0:06.6	It's where you ask questions, then we work together to find the answers.
0:10.6	Today we're teaming up with WBEZ's occasional series front and center
0:14.2	to tackle two questions you sent about the upcoming Illinois primaries for governor.
0:19.4	Coming up, we get into the sticky politics and the stickier research about concealed carry laws.
0:25.0	Good guy gun ownership has crime reducing effects and bad guy gun ownership as crime elevating effects.
0:30.1	But first, a question about Illinois's recent legalization of same-sex marriage.
0:34.7	It's a law that's particularly important to our first question asker,
0:38.1	Chicago and Christy Petit Sheber, and apparently to her girlfriend. She goes on Etsy all the time,
0:44.0	and she will pull up, like, hundreds and hundreds of engagement rings and then force me to look
0:49.2	at the website and go, do you like this one? Do you like this one? What do you think about this one?
0:52.0	Okay, we know gay marriage can be a divisive issue, but Christie's question is pretty nuts and bolts about whether Illinois's
0:57.8	new law is really here to stay. To find out, we spent hours in a studio together. We made phone calls.
1:03.3	We asked a lot of questions. I'm going to play you some tape of what we found. Christy and I started
1:07.9	the same way anyone who's looking for an Illinois civics lesson should start by calling this guy.
1:13.7	My name is Charlie Wheeler, and I am the director of the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois, Springfield.
1:22.6	And you've been covering state politics and legal matters forever?
1:25.8	Well, I covered the Constitutional Convention for the
1:27.9	Sun Times in 1970, so that makes me older than dirt. Hi, Charlie. My name is Christy Petit Sheber,
1:33.7	and I'm here in the studio with Al. Well, hello, Christy. So, Charlie, my question is,
1:38.9	could the next governor reverse the same-sex marriage legislation that just passed? No. The Illinois governor has
1:46.4	no ability to unilaterally rewrite the statutes. It requires an act to the General Assembly.
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