This just in from a member of TTAG’s (The Truth About Guns) Armed Intelligentsia:
“As I begin to write this, not 20 minutes beforehand, I pulled my gun in self defense. For the second time in 4 months. In the gun free city of Chicago. I already know what you’re thinking, I’m not allowed to carry a gun in Chicago. Let’s get this out of the way, I have made the decision to conceal carry in Chicago. Yes this is stupid, but it has already been beneficial for me. Not once but twice.
This morning I was running late to the “L” and ran the 1/4 mile to the station. Just as I made the platform, the train left. No big deal, I give myself leeway for this very reason. As I’m waiting for the next train, three men step on to the platform on the opposite side of the tracks. They say some words to each other that I’m way too far away to hear and step off the platform and out of sight.
Not a minute later these three same men step onto my side of the platform from the near by staircase. They quickly look around and start walking toward me with fists clenched, I scan around me and I’m the only one on the platform except them. I’m standing about half way down the platform, with both staircases behind these guys.
Concealed carry worked, and worked well for this individual. We, the police, can't be everywhere all the time. And we just saw a rumor that the Department is ending CTA Special Employment shortly? What will that to do an already thin police presence on the mass transit front? And just in time for G8 when tens of thousands of protestors will be using the buses and trains to move to and from locations, maybe even staging protests within the tunnels, platforms and bus stations?