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by Floyd Hancock, published on January 23, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Storyline: Denying citizens their right to self defense
The legislature has again denied the citizens their right to self defense by killing AB357 in the Assembly Public Safety committee. The bill by Assemblyman Pete Knight sought to provide a uniform system of concealed carry licensing throughtout the state for those that wish to assume the responsibility of their own defense by carrying a concealed handgun on their person.
The current system is a discretionary one left to the county Sheriff to determine whether the applicant has "good cause" to carry a concealed weapon. Self defense in the absense of a police officer is not considered sufficient justification in most counties in California. The only persons that can obtain a license are celebrities, people that carry a lot of other peoples money and politically connected persons. Nevermind that an abusive spouse has threatened to kill you tomorrow, you cannot get a license. Additionally the life threatening 10 day waiting period will prevent you from buying a defensive firearm. The average person's life is unimportant and not worth defending according to the inept, anti-constitution legislature.
The legislature has failed repeatedly to provide a uniform system of issuing CCW's for the Sheriff's to follow so that their subjective criteria is abandoned and issuance and recognition is uniform throughout the state.
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Did you do a national survey, one that know one knows about?
But clealry you're a Leftie nut who believes all citizens should be disarmed.
Feel free to move to China.
And hope the cops come and save you the next time you are the victim of a home invasion robbery or a violent crime. My family has been, but thanks to my firearm i protected my family. There are gang members in prison now, and this community is a safer place...because I am a well armed citizen.
I'm sure he has his research and you have yours, although by the look of your previous posts, its conclusive you have no logical reasoning.
Conclusion = you have a very limited ability to conclude
As to accidental firearm deaths, they are at an all-time low. Yes Jim Michael, there are accidental firearm deaths...why do accidental firearm deaths mean that shall-issue permits are a bad idea? Does one have a direct relationship upon the other? If you have chosen to discount both statistics and anecdotal evidence, do you prefer to rely entirely on rhetoric, are you trying to make some kind of postmodern point about how nothing is knowable, or just trying to dismiss arguments you don't agree with? And what boy in Cabazon are you referring to? The only story a Google-search turns up is a 3 year old who was beaten to death--tragic, of course, but not an accidental firearms death. Could you provide a link to the story?
The reason I site accidental firearm deaths, is because just as much as a firearm can save you it can also hurt you or your family or your friends. So the public policy question is how do you allow for self defense while mitgating accidents? It's not as JimKnapp suggests an all or nothing debate.
The Brady Bunch has poo-pooed the study at every turn but cannot disprove it.
Along with gun ownership comes responsibility in securing them against unauthorized use. This is not to say they should be made inoperable for emergency defensive use.
Each firearm owner must evaluate their own circumstances with regards to securing their guns. Universal mandates by the state cannot forsee individual needs without some conflict with individual constitutional rights.
The notion that those that possess firearms are more likely to injure themselves than those that don't is just that, a notion. Every person, no doubt, possesses a knife of some kind, does this theory hold true for them also?
I also think there is something that all these studies miss, Canada has high gun ownership rates and very low gun deaths, but then a nation like Japan or England have zero gunownership rates and very gun deaths. Gun control is not the solution to the violence in America, but either is gun ownership.
The Japanese population is approximately 127.2 million, less than half that of the U.S., yet their suicide rate is over twice that of our country despite the ever increasing number of guns here and no gun possession allowed there.
It is also curious as to why our overall crime rare continues to decline when so many new firearms are added to the private possession of citizens daily.
All citizens in the state are being denied the right of self defense by the inability to obtain a CCW permit. They are denied free choice of the type of firearm they wish to carry and they are subjected to completely useless regulation in securing the most effective personal defense tool available unless you are fortunate to have your own cop.