'Open carry' proponents forced the issue (California)

“I didn’t bring it up ... the damn blingers are going to get all our guns taken away ... just because they want to “look cool” ... nut up yourself!”

You are making assumptions about people you do not know, and about a situation that you may not have considered very well. The people who are open carrying are not doing so to “look cool”. They are doing so at risk to finances and health because they are willing to risk a bit to gain back a little of the freedom that we have lost. In California, this is mostly about political exercising of rights, not about self defense.

The California legislature may pass this, and Arnold may sign it, but I do not expect that it will stand for very long. I expect that the Supreme Court will incorporate the 2nd Amendment to the States via the Chicago vs McDonald case, and then the California open carry ban and “may issue” ccw law will both be challenged. Likely both will lose. It is also likely that the insane liberal regime in California will go down in flames and a sane regime will reverse this law (hey, it is possible).

I'm not intimidated, I carry every day almost everywhere I go. I just don't "flaunt it" like some gangbanger with a new silver keychain. Its not necessary. I have the gun, I have the right, I have the permit.

See, there's the trouble. You have the permit, but many Californians - perhaps MOST - simply CAN NOT GET a permit, because their "good cause" is not good enough to satisfy the racist/elitist/whatever Sheriff or Police Chief.

Have you read the Colafrancesco papers? If not, you should do so, so you can see just what most people who apply for a concealed-carry license are up against. A corrupt, money-grubbing racket.

The Colafrancesco Papers

Jim March also gathered evidence of racial redlining in Oakland County, where predominantly black cities had concealed-carry issuance rates of 0.0001%, and that percentage usually constituted campaign contributors.

The ONLY way to carry legally for someone whose chief or sheriff WILL NOT issue concealed carry licenses is open and unloaded.

So it is, simply put, the abuse of the licensing system by corrupt chiefs and sheriffs which brought California to this point, not people carrying openly in full compliance with the letter of the law.

This is part of a discussion at opencarry.org:

Fehrmann69 wrote: “I find myself often wondering, just what a true patriot, will do, to defend his rights granted by God, and or, the Constitution. Would you shed blood?. Would you risk the comfort and peace, or a life without conflict, by being resistant? There may be times when you are harrassed by a LEO, due to excersizing your rights, because he is fed up with people calling in a MWAG, when all that person has to do is conform and get a CCWP. I have to ask. Is this not just a small price to pay? We are not being asked to shed blood to defend this right. We are only required to come to grips with our fears. The fear of being targeted as a non conformist trouble maker, or the fear of being harrassed by the authorities. There are people in this world, that believe so strongly in thier causes, that they are willing to not only shed blood, but to actually die for them. I say take a deep breath, and step out into the light of day, and face your fears. It will be the first step, that carries you down the path to bravery. Every time you win you become more confident. Learn your rights, and start winning. “Amen brother! I for one am very willing to be “harassed” and scrutinized for my right to bear ARMS, and for my defence of all other GOD given rights that are so well defined in the Constitution of these United States.

As Patrick Henry so eloquintly put it, “.............Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH”.

There may be times when you are harrassed by a LEO, due to excersizing your rights, because he is fed up with people calling in a MWAG, when all that person has to do is conform and get a CCWP.

And that statement itself reveals how little the author knows about the corruption-riddled discretionary-issue concealed carry licensing system in so much of California.

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