Posted on 04/26/2018 11:06:57 AM PDT by Simon Green
“It’s not about who gets the largest turnout, It’s about the law, and what our government officials are willing to do to protect us. And it’s about the epidemic of gun violence. If it were not for these mass killings, we’d be having a very different conversation.” That’s the, er, argument Rose Ann Sharp (above right) of NeverAgainCA made recently before the board that oversees the Del Mar County fairgrounds, site of heavily attended four-times-a-year Crossroads of the West gun shows that have been held at the fairgrounds for the last 28 years.
Sharp and her group would like nothing better than to put an end to the gun shows. Why? They won’t say it, but one middle-schooler did.
“We need to take action to stop the proliferation and glorification” of guns, said Zak McHale, a North County seventh-grader.
For Sharp and her group, it’s all about de-normalizing and other-ing guns and gun owners. Something California’s been working hard at for a couple of decades now. The fact that thousands of people come to the Del Mar County gun shows and enjoy themselves every year cuts no ice with her or her anti-gun scolds.
But OMG! What about the dreaded gun show loophole? These events are really just unregulated gun bazaars where felons and God-knows-who can just walk up and leave with deadly weapons of war!
Only they can’t. As the San Diego Union Tribune article points out . . .
Guns can be purchased at the show, but state law requires background checks and a waiting period. No one can legally buy a gun at the show and take it home the same day.
That’s right. Among the dozens of new restrictions that California has imposed over the years on its legally overburdened citizens who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights are universal background checks and a 10-day waiting period on all firearms purchases. So no one will be walking out of a Del Mar County gun show with a firearm he or she bought that day.
Three cities in the county (which also includes San Diego) have asked the fairgrounds board to ban gun show. They are the cities of Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas.
Cities that voted to ban the show are revealing their prejudice, said Michael Schwartz, executive director of the political group San Diego County Gun Owners.
“This is the beginning of a path of intolerance that I hope you’ll ignore,” Schwartz said, adding that the 1,000 members of his group will continue to write letters and speak in support of the gun show.
Schwartz and other gun right supporters reportedly outnumbered opponents at the board meeting by four to one.
Sharp’s group picketed outside the Crossroads show at the fairgrounds in March and plans to return at the next show in May.
“We want a cultural shift,” said Kelly Harless of Solana Beach, another member of the group. “Do the noble thing and stop these shows.”
Because they’re icky. And only icky people go to guns shows. That shift Harless wants to happen is really just an act of cultural hygiene, needed to show that those people aren’t welcome in and won’t be accommodated by Del Mar County.
Here’s a familiar refrain . . .
Del Mar resident Pam Slater-Price, a former member of the county Board of Supervisors, said she fully supports Second Amendment rights, but that the public fairgrounds is not “an appropriate venue” for the gun show.
After three hours of public comment, the board said they’d like to do their own analysis of the shows, their policies and economics. And they want to find out what other county boards around the state have done.
Eight of the nine board members are Democrats appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
One, Russ Penniman, is a Republican first appointed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and since then reappointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and then by Brown.
Want to predict how the board is likely to decide the issue?
Guns can be purchased at the show, but state law requires background checks and a waiting period. No one can legally buy a gun at the show and take it home the same day.
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Not true. In NC you can buy a long gun same day. Pistols is 3 days.
Oops. Misread this is CA law. Moderator, please remove my post.
They’re going to “kill” a gun show? I’m triggered.
In 28 years how many people have purchased a gun there and then killed someone in the parking lot?
I remember going to that gun show when I was stationed out there. That was when California was still a shooters paradise. The Woolworth at the El Camino Real Mall had an awesome collection of guns and ammo.
I lived in Del Mar as a kid. Was a lovely place. Went back with my wife about ten years ago, and the place was so liberaled up, I could hardly recognize it.
There is no Del Mar County. The San Diego County Fair is held at Del Mar (right by the race track).
The author of this piece is clueless. Del Mar is not a county, but a small, very wealthy beach town in San Diego County. The Del Mar Fairgrounds is the location for the San Diego County Fair, but is best known for having the 2nd largest thoroughbred horse racing track in the USA, which better fits the town’s rich blue-blood reputation. Also, the County Board of Supervisor is elected and leans Republican. The leftist group making this decision is the Del Mar Fairgrounds Board of Directors.
Last time I checked Del Mar was in San Diego county. There is no “Del Mar County”. If the story can’t get that right what did they get right?
Del Mar County is on the planet Mars and is populated with Del Martians.
What idiot wrote this? Del Mar is a small, beach city in San Diego County. The county fairgrounds are in Del Mar.
If they ban the show then simply refuse to set foot on the Fairgrounds for any reason. I have refused to go to Pomona (L.A. Fairgrounds) since they banned the Great Western Gun Show several years back. If enough people would do this it might have an effect. (I doubt it, though...)
What moron proofread this story? There is NO Del Mar County in Calif. I would question everything about an article so inaccurately and incompetently written.
While I was still a San Diego resident, I gathered with Travis McGee (Matt Bracken) and Joe Brower to take our Tyranny Response Team to raise objections to the anti-gunners. I think most of us have moved to other states in the intervening years. I still have the TRT shirts.
That’s a shame, used to attend that show when I was stationed out there in the 90’s, better than most back then.
If memory serves, the county fair is held in Del Mar, may be part of the confusion.
No one can legally buy a gun at the show and take it home the same day.
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True.
‘the show’ is in Calif, not NC.
I’ve done it like 10, 12 times. The cops seem uninterested. /bitter sarc
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