California has and has had a more restrictive attitude towards firearms than many states.( California is not as bad as New York.)I have lived here in California for 76 years and have carried my fire arms as prescribed by law. I have been stopped and searched over the years all while carrying firearms and no police officer ever complained about my guns and shooting. They merely looked and said "ok go on." The gun was in the trunk and the ammunition in the glove box as state law commanded.
Open unrestricted carrying of firearms is a recipe for disaster. My wife informed me this morning that some imbecile shot some poor soul in a movie theater because the victim was texting. There was a shooting outside a bar-I actually had one one imbecilic poster on this forum say he approved of people carrying guns into bars. The advocacy of the mixing of liquor and loaded guns-God Help Us! These types of attitudes will be the foundation for people to take away all gun rights. We will all lose.
No right is unrestricted. I totally approve of a man's right to own and possess firearms in his home and place of business, and to use them in defense of his and his families health, well being and property. A man can carry firearms if he has a specific purpose such as carrying jewels and/or sums of money or is required to go into dangerous areas. A man can carry when he goes hunting or target shooting and then guns in the trunk and ammo in the glove box are appropriate.
Not one open carry nut on this forum ever answered my question as to: why did the citizens of 19th century western American towns overwhelmingly vote against the unrestricted carrying of firearms with town limits? Answer the question! You can't because human experience dictates that not everyone should carry as he pleases and those people experienced "Open Unrestricted Carry" and rejected it as would any sane people with a minimum knowledge of human frailties-SHOOTING A MAN FOR TEXTING IN A THEATER! Lord
So, according to your counter-revolutionary thinking, the government was fully justified in sending the army to confiscate arms in and around Boston in 1775?
Where did this notion come from that a person's jewels or money are more important than a person's life or the lives of his loved ones?
Ask your wife whether or not the "texter" she mentioned assaulted the shooter prior to the shooting.
Unrestricted driving on our roads is a recipe for disaster. Why just the other day a driver ran a stop sign and killed a family of four. Driving should be outlawed. "For the children".
Kalifornia had open carry of firearms and ended it because BLACK MEN carried arms and frightened the legislature, not because of shootouts in the streets.