Burglar-alarm policy prompts call to arms - Resident urges purchase of guns, mayoral recall

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/11/5 | Janine DeFao

[SmithL]

With his city's police force poised to become the first in California to stop responding to most burglar alarms, Fremont insurance salesman Dennis Wolfe is urging his fellow citizens to arm themselves.

"I absolutely believe everybody should own a gun in Fremont now," Wolfe said Thursday. "If the police aren't going to protect us, we have to protect ourselves."

[SmithL]

Lock-n-load

[SmithL]

FYI

[EagleUSA]

It is about time that the fight started in San Freakcisco. A revolution is in order to take that city back from the utopian communists running it, and bring it back into REAL AMERICA. A put the activist, criminal officials in the Bay with the fishes.

[EggsAckley]

Not San Francisco. Fremont.

[TexasAg1996]

Isn't San Francisco trying to ban all handguns as well? If so, let me get this straight - they are going to stop responding to burglar alarms AND keep residents from arming themselves? If I were a thief, I'd move to San Francisco right away.

[SmithL]

It is about time that the fight started in San Freakcisco

Sorry, this is not San Francisco. Fremont is on the other side of the Bay, closer to San Jose than Oakland.

[Michael.SF.]

The article is about Fremont, Calif. and is printed in a SF newspaper.

[sheik yerbouty]

The Mayor does not want to alienate the criminal community as it is most of his constituency.

[EagleUSA]

OK on Fremont! :-) and yes, San Freakcisco is trying to squash the Second Amendment for city residents like Washington, DC did. The radical extremists running what used to be a respectable city, are trying to turn it into a totalitarian environment, above the law, with an "anything goes" mentality. One of the most extreme examples of the runaway madness of the radical left.

[UB355]

99.999 percent of these alarms are false. I don't blame the city at all.

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heck! It's Kalifornia - they are ALL Kommies on the Koast!

[Safetgiver]

But, but...if even one is a true call, isn't it worth it?

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just in case .... the komment was sarKasm!

[rellimpank]

--and when they buy one, go to city hall and apply for and demand a concealed weapons permit--if a few thousand of you Commiefornianas in LA and San Francisco would do that your politicians would be jumping through hoops to accomodate you---

[balrog666]

99.999 percent of these alarms are false. I don't blame the city at all.

Riiiight. Don't wanna tear those cops away from their flops and donut havens!

[Incandesia]

he plans to seek a concealed weapons permit for his new handgun. Wasserman said Wolfe will have a tough time getting one from the police chief.

Um, why? Just because he annoys you? Is that legal?

[em2vn]

Where did you get that percentage?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"99.999 percent of these alarms are false. I don't blame the city at all."

Unless someone near and dear was the lottery ticket holder for 00.001 maybe???

[wingnut1971]

B-B-But...it's for the Children!...

[Cicero]

Having dealt with flaky several burglar alarm systems in my houses over the years, I'm all too familiar with the problem of false alarms. But there are compromise positions between rushing to every alarm without any kind of check and refusing to respond at all.

Actually, one time the burglar alarm went off in our house about 20 years ago. I got up, shut if off, went downstairs to investigate, and found that the burglar must have set off the alarm in the dining room. He jumped out of a window and left a set of prints in the flowerbed outside. So the alarm did serve a useful purpose.