https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms.{SNIP}
AB-1591 was authored by Don Mulford (R) from Oakland, John T. Knox (D) from Richmond, Walter J. Karabian (D) from Monterey Park, Alan Sieroty (D) from Los Angeles, and William M. Ketchum (R) from Bakersfield,[5] it passed both Assembly (controlled by Democrats 42:38) and Senate (split 20:20) and was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan on July 28. The law banned the carrying of loaded weapons in public. [6]
Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control. Governor Ronald Reagan, who was coincidentally present on the capitol lawn when the protesters arrived, later commented that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons” and that guns were a “ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.” In a later press conference, Reagan added that the Mulford Act “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.”[7]
The bill was signed by Reagan and became California penal code 25850 and 171c.
Thank you for posting that. Ronnie did a lot of good things. The Mulford Act was NOT one of them.
People of good will use guns to solve problems caused by people of BAD will. And that is why citizens should be carrying loaded weapons as they go about their daily business.
Thank you for injecting some reality in the thread for the Ronnie Sunshine Pumper club. No person, especially no politician, is able to end up on the positive side of the ledger with every action.
That was bad. I opine that the 1986 Amnesty was worse.
The adopted son of California, and its former two-term Governor - which made him a two-term President - guaranteed that the Golden State, once more generally and reliably conservative than Texas, would be lost.
I remember well how dismayed I was, first on behalf of legal immigrants, second on behalf of my beloved state.
He chose to surrender, instead of making the DemoKKKrats own it. In so doing, he gave the globalist Neocon RINOpublicans the template for surrender in perpetuity (which they have enjoyed).