Posted on 06/24/2024 7:30:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
More restrictions STAT!
Coincidence? I think not!
Obviously they need more Gun Control Laws.....................
As California goes, so goes the Nation. Gavin needs to take his act national. /s
I remember 1982, when the citizens of California voted DOWN a plan to register and ban handguns. It was guaranteed to pass! Handgun Control Inc was already popping corks for a win! and it failed miserably.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Handgun_Ownership_and_Registration_Initiative_(1982)
So they had to find a different way around the voters.
In 1989 California proposed an A-s-sault Rifle ban so bad it was shelved.
So the State released Pat Purdy from an insane asylum, allowed him to buy a handgun and a rifle in violation of state and Federal laws,even passing the waiting period.
He the went and shot up the Stockton school killing several students and himself.
The shelved bill was pulled out and passed before any opposition could be mounted against it.
That doesn’t even come close to Chicago which is part of Illinois not even counting Saint Louise which had 617 homicides and 2450 shooting in 2023. Apparently this doesn’t count.
“Active shooter” is the stupidest word gerrymongering since “organic food.” If it weren’t organic (by Jöns Jacob Berzelius’s definition) you couldn’t get any nourishment from it, therefore ALL FOOD is organic. And if an “active shooter” isn’t “active, then neither is he a “shooter.”
>>>California: No. 1 in Gun Control, No. 1 in ‘Active Shooter Incidents’ in 2023
Must be a correlation, weapon of choice!?!?
"California: No. 1 in Gun Control, No. 1 in ‘Active Shooter Incidents’ in 2023"
Note that the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that constitutional drafters had left the care of the people to the states, not the feds.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Regarding the unique, 10th Amendment-protected power of the states to serve the people, also note that Justice Louis Brandeis had volunteered his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to emphasize that the drafters of the Constitution had intended for each state to seek ways to improve quality of life, ultimately depending on what the qualified majority citizen voters of each state want.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Justice Brandeis would have considered California's misguided, anti-2nd Amendment policies to be a failed experiment that would have spurred other states to reconsider their restrictive gun laws.
Since Congress has repeatedly proven that it is an enemy of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" Congress in November, supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
You can purchase whatever you wish on the streets of the once-great State of Californication. Almost nobody there has any respect left for the laws or the judicial system. Can’t say they’re to blame. It is the unconstitutional, illegal, and corrupt politicians and (non-)prosecutors and much of the (communist) judiciary that has engendered all of this contempt. Decent people and any Americans who have any knowledge whatsoever about the country’s history and its intended Constitutional system of governance recognize how corrupted it has become.
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