Gun owners of Illinois march to State Capitol
This activity is abbreviated IGOLD for Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. We went to Springfield Illinois by the bus load for this annual event. This was not a demonstration or protest. We went to the state capitol as a show of strength and determination and we actually spoke to our state representatives face to face. I was there, took a bus out of Rockford to the capitol. I hand delivered a letter to the governors office. People were well behaved, no disruptions, but we were all very serious about our cause.
Illinois is under a siege of proposed gun control bills after recent shootings in the US and in Aurora and Rockford Illinois where a police officer was killed while serving and arrest warrant. In both cases in Illinois the shooter could not legally be in possession of a firearm but had one anyway and killed people with it.
From tips from the NRA and Illinois State Rifle association I have been writing my representatives almost weekly and daily at times protesting proposed gun control bills. Illinois is #1 in the US for decreasing population. We have to many rules, high taxes, and lousy weather, low opportunity.
The Youtube video is a tad long but shows how huge the turnout really was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1oswox4OE4
The speaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwmgrWqJWsM
Speech outside capitol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjBWbrHRp7I&t=1060s