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Posted on 08/23/2013 4:44:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
It is not surprising that the first police raids to take legally-purchased firearms from citizens are in California. Until recently, the state had the strictest gun control laws and the liberal run state government has always looked unfavorably on the Second Amendment.
Earlier this year, the state legislature expanded the list of what they call “prohibited persons” – people who have legally registered a firearm but, for various reasons, are no longer allowed their Second Amendment rights. These reasons were expanded to include people who are behind on state taxes, did not pay toll fees in a “timely” manner and a wide range of other minor misdemeanors or reported mental health concerns.
In preparation for the crackdown, the state authorized $24 million to hire additional officers to track down 20,000 people on the list. One person on this list was Joe Mendez.
A police officer came to the door and lured Mendez out of his house with a story of a hit and run report. Once outside, he had M16s pointed within inches of his face, was taken into custody and had all weapons removed from his house.
It is important to remember that these were legally- purchased and registered firearms.
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Oh yeah, nobody’s died - yet. And I’m betting that the vast majority of people in CA will think nothing of this. And in one, two or five years, they will be gathered around a campfire in a FEMA camp, wondering how it ever got this way.
Welcome to Acirema, where everything is upside down. The only person to blame is the one looking back from the mirror.
When it becomes personal, when the people find out where the pols and chiefs of police, DA’s live, eat and drink, go to church, etc., then, as in Ireland under Michael Collins, things will take on a different tone.
We live in interesting times. Clever resistance can stretch a tyrant and the minions awfully thin.
It’s a pretty long list, but my quick scan of it didn’t find back taxes or late toll fees on it...
http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/pdfs/firearms/forms/prohibcatmisd.pdf
Don’t target the cops.
They are not drafted into the police force. They have the right to leave at will. They know full well that they are violating the Second Amendment and the rights granted by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
That statement you cite is the same as “don’t target the Nazi troops.” The principle is the same except the Nazi troops didn’t have the choice to leave.
Don’t target the cops.
Why not? It is the cops that are out in the neighborhoods doing the evil deeds. I'd say they are carrying great big targets.
All the people who keep saying that the cops are on our side, and won't take people's guns are full of it. The cops are on their/b> side.
I fail to see where that matters. The consitution says "shall not be infringed" it doesn't say, "except for wife-beaters, or felons", or any of a thousand other ways too many have bought the big lie that they have the power to regulate our bearing of arms.
You and I may have good objections to those “Statutory causes” on constitutional grounds, but at the moment our opinion doesn’t matter to anybody but us. What does matter is what are the CA Statutory restrictions, and did they really increase them dramatically recently as the author claims?
Is the author’s example case somebody who had been restricted for years based on Statutes that have existed a long time? Doesn’t say. Was he late on his Fast-Trak payment, as the author now claims is a gun-grabbing offense? Doesn’t say. In that light, this article reads less like news and more like agitprop.
“the best thing to do is buy up a good rural property in a good 2a state. let the lib states and liberal-run cities implode under their own insane policies.”
Exactly my reasoning too. As Thatcher reportedly said, socialism works until they run out of other people’s money, and Kali is hell bent on trying to do so in record time.
bump
I can find no support for this article, especially its reference to confiscation due to back taxes or not paying tolls. Anyone?
Agreed, the reportage is pretty poor. Obviously a J-school grad.
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