[William Tell]

AEMILIUS PAULUS said: "People will get sick of the resulting carnage-(which is already starting i.e shooting a person for texting)-and repeal the Second Amendment. "

We'll have to follow Arizona very carefully then. They have repealed virtually all of their gun laws and don't require a permit to carry openly or concealed. It should be there that we see the effective repeal of the Second Amendment and not in some state like California.

Unfortunately, the race is over. The Second Amendment has been effectively repealed in California and not in Arizona.

You're asking me to fear that I will lose my right to keep and bear arms because of what is happening in Arizona? It's gone already and I'm waiting for the courts to recognize the infringements and restore my rights.

Is it your opinion that the Ninth Circuit will or will not restore my rights? Should they restore my rights or follow your thinking that permitting the exercise of the right will destroy the right?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I have lived in California all my life and have owned guns since 1950 and I keep and bear arms, shoot and hunt. I merely follow simple rules in carrying; i.e. gun in the trunk ammunition in the glove box when going target shooting or hunting. I have enough confidence in myself, at 76 years of age, that I feel no need to carry a fire arm on my person. To put it another way I'm not an hysteric that sees a bogey man lurking everywhere.

I am ambivalent about private citizens owning automatic weapons such as AK-47's; and am dead against carrying pistols at will. I can learn from the actions of citizens from the 19th century who stopped unlimited carry based upon the fact it did not work. We live in times where the fanatics can rise to leadership positions due to their lack of self restraint.