Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Reacting to the mass shooting reported out of Maine, Gov. JB Pritzker said Illinois is doing what it can do by banning certain types of semi-automatic firearms. “But it is very hard if we don’t have a federal law that bans those kinds of weapons,” Pritzker said. But Illinois’ ban is being challenged on several fronts with cases still pending.
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Why not ban guns for the Palestinians? That should end the middle east conflicts!
Ironically, quite recently, the Israels had banned guns by requiring difficult to get permits, and limited the number of rounds of ammo a citizen could possess. Hamas took advantage of this and slaughtered defenseless villagers by the hundreds because few had the means to defend themselves. Less than 2% of Isrealis (outside of police and security) had legal gun permits. And because of that, that got slaughtered.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/israel-relaxes-gun-laws-to-increase-number-of-armed-and-ready-citizens-in-wake-of-terrorist-attacks
Remember, despite JB’s protestations, this is why JB wants to take away your guns too. Because he wants to hurt you, and your AR-15 is the only thing stopping him.
If round boy can ignore the Constitution, we can ignore him and his insane leftist ideas.
Pritzker is positioning himself to generate progressive headlines for his presidential run and the media is only too happy to join in. Little does it matter what the Constitution says because the Court case is ages away and while he may lose in Court that will be matter for the back pages if even reported at all.