Posted on 03/18/2002 4:18:27 PM PST by 45Auto
Edited on 07/09/2004 12:50:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Jim March is a self-described "gun nut," frustrated because the Contra Costa County Sheriff's office won't give him a concealed-weapons permit.
The towering redhead from Pittsburg has taken his beef with the sheriff over the permit to federal court, saying county Sheriff Warren Rupf and a few police chiefs in 2000 violated his constitutional rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at trivalleyherald.com ...
So, the numbers seem to vindicate March's assertion: of the 190 permits, 179 of them are held by Posse members.
The same rich and connected with the carry permits don't want anyone else to have them.
You cited the statistic backwards, but your point is right on the money. The way the thing reads, it actually could be that all the permits are held by Posse members. Cetrainly looks disproportionate to me.
Early this year, purely as a sideline, local RKBA activist Nadja Adolf noticed that the national headquarters of a gun control organization called the "Million Mom March" was headquartered in a local hospital - San Francisco General. Not too strange, except that this is a county owned and operated facility. She pointed this out on a local mailing list, I gathered some info on the use of Public Records Act requests for a situation like this, and together we did some digging.Go there! <== these two single-handedly brought down the MMM.Within 60 days, the MMM laid off most of their staff and evacuated their HQ, with the SF Board of Supes asking hard questions about millions of dollars in defrauded rent. A bit later, the MMM merged with the also-downsized HCI.
"He's one of those people who once he grabs onto a fact, he builds a fantasy around that," said Sheriff Warren Rupf. The longtime sheriff who is head of the auxiliary group, the Posse, said fewer than half the 380 Posse members hold concealed weapon permits.
Meanwhile, Contra Costa County currently has a total of 179 concealed- weapons permits outstanding, said Contra Costa County Sheriff's Lt. Dale Varady.
The above is all one really needs to read to get the gist of what is going on here. Is "fewer than half the 380 Posse members" equal to 179? An even better question would be, are there any non-posse members who hold gun permits? Anyone at all?
Quite clearly no one in the legal system wants to look at the facts. But then the law was written this way, so the only real solution is passage of a "shall issue" concealed permit law; this being California, though, the odds are not good.
A lot of states have shall issue laws regarding gun permits. In my state all you have to do is turn in the paper work and you are approved if you aren't a criminal. That is freedom. Hoping that some bureaucrat 9sheriff) is sympathetic with you is not freedom.
As long as a hundred of us remain alive we will never be subject to tyrannical domination, because it is not for glory or for riches or honours that we fight, but for freedom alone which no worthy man loses except with his life. Taken from the “Declaration of Arbroath” 1320
True, though neither choice is acceptable...
I gotta believe that the percentage of CCW holders for all of Contra Costa County doesn't approach almost 50%.
This is more reason to take the permitting power out of the hands of individual sheriffs.
Nope, -- I don't harass aggie. --- He feels he has a mission to tell lies about libertarians. When I correct him, he feels abused and whines about it, a lot.
Eventually, he will grow up and stop his juvenile fibbing. Or maybe not. - It could be an obsession.
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