Illinois Senate Majority Leader’s husband fires 15 shots with CCW after they’re carjacked at gunpoint. 16 hours later, US House rep is “Philly tough” after daylight armed carjacking yesterday.

Tuesday evening, at 9:45pm CT, Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford and her husband dropped off her hairdresser at a Chicago suburb house. Three armed men carjacked them as the hairdresser ran inside to call 911 (but was not initially believed by the dispatcher). Per the link, police refuse to confirm her husband had a gun, just that shots were fired and they were unharmed. But another person at the house said the husband had a CCW and fired 15 shots to “distract” them and “take care of the situation” as they fled with his car. No indication any were hit.Wednesday afternoon, at 2:45pm ET in a downtown Philadelphia park, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint by two men hours after another attempted carjacking, losing her personal and federal phones and ID. Police seemingly tracked those and arrested five in the car later. The mayor was “appalled” this would happen in a “place of peace” and her congressional colleague said she’ll be ok because she’s “Philly tough.”Back in 2013, Illinois was ordered by a federal appeals court to stop being the last no-issue state. Leader Lightford still voted no on the bill saying it didn’t do enough to “protect” against gun violence (too permissive), despite a supermajority overriding the governor’s veto the day of the court’s deadline to prevent the court from stepping in and potentially allowing unrestricted “carry anyplace, anywhere”. Rep. Scanlon supports “common sense gun safety” measures and organizations.Thoughts? On 1) the apparent mag dump at fleeing carjackers and 2) the back-to-back politician carjackings. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/3FsBrV8