Posted on 02/25/2018 7:52:26 AM PST by DoodleBob
...A broad, bald Tennessean, Richardson runs a six-person team of California Justice Department agents who are coming for your guns, but only if you no longer have the legal authority to own one in this state that has tightened firearm laws in increments over the years.
His division is the only law enforcement agency in the country assigned specifically to track down and take guns from felons, the mentally ill and others whose Second Amendment rights have been curtailed in court because of public safety concerns. That is, the people who even the National Rifle Association says should not have guns, a statement echoing in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The program makes California’s gun-control policy perhaps the most aggressive in the nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Absolutely. They are eating around the edges of the Second Amendment by doing something blatantly Unconstitutional in a way that some will find palatable. It won’t stop there because it was never meant to.
And, anyway, what’s to say that the guns that are confiscated won’t just be replaced? Ask thugs in Chicago where they get their guns. And where guns aren’t legal, other forms of weapons are.
“...even small victories could translate into a life saved, a crime prevented.
“We certainly believe we’re making a difference on crime,” Richardson said...”
This I expect from WaPo. It is a ridiculously idealized statement for their dumbed down readership. Taking the gun out of the hand a of bad guy and then saying you have removed his ability to commit a crime and expecting me to believe it is assuming that I am either naive or stupid. I am neither.
And the last part of Richardson’s statement “...But it’s a drop in the bucket on the overall number of guns in circulation.” is chilling. Once they get this machine rolling, what is going to stop them.
Get Out of California!
Perhaps Soon...
I agree. I don't know what world some of the people posting here live in if they think everyone has a strong and established network of friends, neighbors, family, and clergy looking out for their best interests. I swear, some people here need to turn off the Andy Griffith reruns and take a walk outside from time to time. It's a different world these days.
I don't know why there's pushback on this. I'm an NRA member, Trump voter, 2A supporter, and owner of more than one "assault rifle" as the media incorrectly refers to them as. At the same time, I'm a father and I'm also pretty damn sick of these life's losers who fall through the cracks, spend all their time on the internet nursing grudges being able to waltz into a gun store, purchase an AR-15, and mow down people just for the hell of it.
Yes, I realize these confiscation policies have the potential for abuse and that requires vigilance. At the same time, their needs to be a way to keep weapons out of the hands of these piece of s**t losers who are using them to slaughter innocents.
The iffy ones are the ones involving “brandishing”, you can be seen by a neighbor, showing a firearm to a friend in your garage or through your living room window and be brought up on a charge of “brandishing”. It might be relatively easy to beat under most circumstances, but your pocketbook is going to suffer regardless.
As of now every firearm sold or transferred in CA is registered.
According to flaming leftist psychos...psychiatrists, psychologists, that is, anyone who wants a firearm is mentally ill!
Anyone who should not be armed should not be running around loose.
This is the real problem. Few people understand how truly corrupt the justice system has become. Any individual will be maligned, abused, lied to, falsely arrested, threatened and bankrupted if they are unlucky enough to fall victim to a bureaucratic mistake. Prosecutors and police regularly cover up everything from ineptitude to outright criminal malfeasance.
I know this is too broad a brush for most conservatives, but most conservatives have little experience in our courts. It’s not all prosecutors or police, but enough to give anyone pause. Obama’s administration was by no means unique—it was a typical large metro operation writ large.
In the article, they failed to locate many of the individuals. The one individual they arrested did not have a gun, but ammunition.
That makes for a good bumper sticker but we need real solutions because I'll tell you something Jim Red, people who don't post on Free Republic are starting to get a little tired of the mass shootings committed by losers who should never have had guns in the first place. They're going to come up with solutions that we're not going to like and their solutions are going to enjoy an increasing amount of support.
See my post #47.
Bingo! Well said. Take away the guns but leave the felon at large with a 3,000 pound car going 70mph, a carving knife, axe, duct tape, and a fresh refill of Prozac and adderal to prod the psychosis.
Shouldn’t be a problem finding them? The DNC manages to get their votes in and on time every election? Seems like a no brainer there.......
By the way, I DO recognize the potential for abuse in allowing government agents to call someone crazy and incarcerate him, on the word of some lefty psychobabbler. That will have to be dealt with.
Exactly. The problem with this scenario is that the government beast always finds a way to expand its reach. Case in point, social security was originally set up as a safety net for widows and orphans and sold as a voluntary program whose funds were in the “lock box”.
Who gets to decide who the undesirables are? Who gets to decide what firearms become illegal to own or operate? Don’t worry, Big Brother will let you know.
The instant it is created.
Legislation should be drafted disbanding every federal agency no matter how large or small every ten years. Then make them present a model in which they are reformed and renewed in purpose, cost, efficiency, and size, to justify their existance just like the private sector does on a yearly basis.
Tying FLIES!?!
I’ve seen a House Fly but
I had no desire to turn It up!
Trout season was postponed indefinitely for him at that point.
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