Posted on 10/06/2025 10:56:58 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
As violent crime surges across America’s largest Democratic-run cities, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is stepping in — this time, suing Los Angeles County for allegedly blocking citizens from defending themselves.
The new lawsuit marks the latest clash in a growing battle between the Trump administration’s DOJ and Democrat-led cities over public safety and constitutional rights.
Filed by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, the lawsuit accuses the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) of engaging in a "pattern or practice" of delaying or denying concealed carry weapon permits (CCW) for law-abiding citizens.
Federal investigators found that out of more than 8,000 applications, only two were approved — with some residents waiting up to two years just for an interview. Critics say that failure leaves thousands of Angelenos defenseless while robberies, assaults and carjackings surge across the city.
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What are the DC crime statistics since Trump sent in the troops? I haven’t heard it reported anywhere.
I believe that gangs support the local politicians, so these crimes are part of the picture.
Although a valid issue, Trump and the feds have no constitutional standing to sue LA. This is not constitutionally a federal issue. This is strictly an issue for CA and the people of CA and LA to resolve. Friggin' time they resolved it!!!
I believe that gangs support the local politicians...
Chicago Police Department superintendent Larry Snelling is right now doing a press conference on the anti-ICE violence. He warned those who would attack ice that they are attacking law enforcement, and (in my words) could expect to be shot for their trouble.
He also explained that Illinois and Chicago city laws preclude them assisting ice in immigration enforcement, so they are upholding the law when they do not assist in arrests.
If you want to be pure it is a 2nd amendment thing. The Constitution says, “shall not be infringed”. It was wrong when Dodge City did it to cowboys in the 19th century and it is wrong today.
We should be open to carry anywhere we want except private property (and even then I ignore the signs). You cannot guarantee my safety, but you will disarm me?
“a right delayed is a right denied” MLK Jr.
“…when they do not assist in arrests.”
Arrests of illegals, not arrests of rioters or attackers.
The issue is not whether something is wrong. The issue is who should remedy it.
The first ten amendments are strictly pointed at the federal gov’t and nowhere else as the 9A and 10A explain. The first ten amendments did not add any new powers to the feds and the feds have no enumerated power delegated by the Constitution to commandeer and violate a state’s constitutional sovereignty.
Although a valid issue, Trump and the feds have no constitutional standing to sue LA. This is not constitutionally a federal issue. This is strictly an issue for CA and the people of CA and LA to resolve. Friggin’ time they resolved it!!!
You are absolutely correct, that and the protection of Crooked Cops, (effectively another Gang), was the purpose of the Sullivan Law.
Effectively, the entire NYPD was Criminal, Corrupt or Ineffective.
Currently the NYPD has modestly improved.
If a state’s “constitutional sovereignty” goes against the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, then it is most assuredly a federal issue.
The federal government has a certain narrow job description: Print a common currency, provide defense for the nation, mediate disputes between states, regulate interstate commerce, negotiate treaties, and uphold the Constitution as the law of the land (state’s constitutions are not more binding than the US and they cannot takeaway any rights enumerated by the US constitution).
The slaves in California need to revolt!
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.US Const., 10th Amendment.
The Constitution stands on the ground of the Declaration of Independence (DOI) which states that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." Our rights come from God, not man. The first ten amendments are NOT a bill of rights granted by the gov't which can also take them away.
The first ten amendments were written by James Madison with the intent to remind the feds and the world of certain powers NOT delegated to the feds, again as explained in the 9A and 10A.
Yup. CA is THEIR state, not the Leftists’ state unless the people of CA want it that way which is why so many have left CA.
So, the states can remove our rights with no recourse other than armed reactions by its citizens because I don’t remember any general voting around weapon carrying? Hence why we have a f’ed up hodge podge of gun laws.
Yes, the federal government is restricted in a great many things, but this is one instance where they should act, as it goes against the constitution to bar freedom of carrying arms. They intervened when certain states tried to prevent black voting and education, how is this different? A right is a right. They intervened when the courts issue Miranda ruling. ...
I will add that the 2nd amendment is the most important, even above the 1st, because the only thing that has kept the others from being removed is the 2nd. The government, both fed and state need to fear us, not the other way around.
Take away the 2nd entirely (as the blue states/cities are trying) then won’t be long we will be like Britain and lose the right to free speech and others.
Your moral outlook and logic may be just fine, even though you unwittingly give the feds sweeping and totalitarian power over the individual.
Nevertheless, your moral outlook and logic doesn’t trump the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land. Everybody has their own moral code, but we are a nation under the Rule of Law, not the Rule of Man and his whims and vacillations.
Freedom isn’t prefect but it is way ahead of whatever is in second place.
Not sure California slaves have access to free and fair elections.
Maybe their only hope is to kill their masters, but one would hope in a United States, it shouldn’t come to that.
But slave masters are really strong in Cali.
The Feds have tried to rid that state of foreign invasion slaves, to the Space Master’s wailing and gnashing of teeth, too.
But who will free the American Slaves trapped in their Master’s house?
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Perhaps.
You said: “Our rights come from God, not man. The first ten amendments are NOT a bill of rights granted by the gov’t which can also take them away.”
I agree 100% but I think they were enumerated “as a Bill of Rights” in the Constitution for a reason, that we as a people should never let any entity take them from us local, state, federal or foreign. It took a big leap with the 16th and mostly the 17th amendment where they stripped the states of their voice.
Sadly, we as a nation have let our elected bodies erode their meaning and use word-ease as a way to undermine our freedoms in the name of “for the good of all”. Case and point: all the BS departments created by the feds that should be only for the states, like EPA, TSA, Dept of Ed, Labor etc... That is what most libs didn’t get about Roe v Wade it was not outlawing abortion (which is not protected in the Constitution like arms) but putting it back to the control of the states where it belongs.
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