According to Firearm Chronicles
While crime is down in Chicago at the moment, it hasn’t disappeared entirely. There are still bad actors on the streets, but thankfully there are also tens of thousands of concealed carry licensees in the city, and several of them have been forced to protect themselves in recent days.
Fox 32 reports that a pair of armed citizens were able to protect themselves when a man opened fire on them on the city’s south side Sunday afternoon.
The man opened fire at a southbound vehicle about 5:20 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Knox Avenue, Chicago police said. Two men inside the vehicle, 21 and 29, returned shots, striking the older man in the abdomen, side and leg.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said. Neither of the men in the vehicle was hurt.
According to police, both men who were targeted possess concealed carry licenses, and while the investigation continues, it looks right now to be a case of self-defense.
Thursday evening, another armed citizen was able to put a stop to a crime spree in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood. CWB Chicago says an armed man engaged in a carjacking and robbed two businesses before he was shot at by a concealed carry holder.