In an effort to stoke the flames of the ongoing concealed-carry debate in Illinois, the last remaining state that prohibits law-abiding citizens from carrying a concealed firearm, a state attorney announced that he will no longer prosecute citizens for certain weapons possession charges when they have "no evil intent."
"Our message is this: we will no longer use the power and authority of our office to criminalize and punish decent, otherwise law-abiding citizens who choose to exercise the rights granted to them by the Second Amendment of the United States' Constitution to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves and their families," said McLean County State's Attorney Ronald Dozier in a Tuesday press release.
Dozier's justification for not enforcing state law, which bans concealed carry and forces residents to obtain a FOID card, seems to follow the logic of the great transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau who said, "If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."While Dozier not exactly breaking the law, as Author and American University law professor Angela Davis told the Bloomington Pantagraph, prosecutors have "absolute discretion" to decide whether to pursue charges, he is certainly refusing to be an agent of injustice.
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