O.C. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has stepped in a stinky one. She doesn’t want to renew the concealed weapon permits that disgraced former Sheriff Mike Carona apparently sold. I can’t blame her for that. However, “the crackdown has infuriated gun-rights advocates and some permit holders, who accuse Hutchens of violating their 2nd Amendment right to bear arms,” according to the L.A. Times.
The Sheriff has broad discretion to decide who does and who does not get to carry guns in public. So is this a gun rights issue or is it smart to cancel the permits that Carona apparently profited from?
Does the 2nd Amendment carry connote the right to bear arms whenever we want? Should their be limits on this? Some of Carona’s bogus reserve officers have already acted crazy in public. Doesn’t it make sense to cancel these permits unless the people who got them really have a good reason to be carrying guns in public? Or should all of us be able to carry such weapons?
And what about all the bad guys who ignore all of this and carry whatever they want? We know that violence has erupted in Australia and in Great Britain – after gun rights were canceled. And there is now a movement in Great Britain to register knives due to all the knife attacks. Where does this craziness end?
Hutchens doesn’t understand why folks are upset about all this. Did no one warn her that O.C. residents lean Libertarian? Is she completely lacking any clues whatsoever? Time will tell, I guess, but she needs to do a better job of communicating when she makes these kinds of decisions. There are far too many questions left unanswered.
Oh noooo, no pay to play? What will OC’s rich and famous (and flush with drugs or cash) libertarians (now) do now?
Ripping all the CCW’s across the board….is foolish policy. Again, the Sheriff
needs to address each license as if it was brand new and necessary. The same for the Badge issue. Stomping your feet and saying: “We aren’t doing that anymore…”is childish at best!
Odd timing by the way…in the light that the Sheriff’s mentor Sheriff Baca is
making a regulation for LA which states: “If you drink off duty…you cannot
carry your firearm!” Again, what foolishness…..tell that to every Under Cover Officer or Vice Cop in your employ! Even those that bust bad guys that go to Prison and get out or have their Gang pals do their bidding outside!
Designated drivers/bodyguard will be in demand in LA. I think that’s a great idea we don’t need impaired police behind either the wheel or the trigger. All you have to do to enjoy either is plan ahead, not hard as a drink never snuck up on anybody.
Besides I thought Sheriff Hutchins was clear about “the Sheriff
needs to address each license as if it was brand new and necessary”being what she’s doing, just not letting all the ones in effect continue. I thought that this was one of the area’s where Corona was criticized and that some have misused their permits (one waving his gun around on a golf course) so it necessarily calls all of the permits into question. Myself, I think this is just professional and prudent.
The Weekly had a great story about this last month and this paragraph seemed good enough to share here:
“The policy shift has left local Republican supervisors antsy, given indigestion to gun enthusiasts and outraged the Southern California anti-Jewish-conspiracy types. On Oct. 13, a local gun-rights blog posted an entry titled “Dyke Sheriff Begins taking away concealed weapons permits.” The post, written by a coward hiding behind the identity “Zenos,” continued, “And the great disarming begins. With the impending doom of the U.S. economy and the possible collapse of the government, the last thing the jews want is a pissed off armed public. Sorry you filthy fucking jews, it’s not going to work. People know it’s you now.” (All typos in the preceding quotation are, appropriately, [sic].)”
Is that what you were referring to Winships?
Believe it or not, I couldn’t have said it any better than Ron and Anna. *sigh* Obama and CCWs: THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! QUICK! SHOOT IT!
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SMS
An approach that is in harmony with principles of the constitution and common sense in a free society is to allow permits to all who request them, unless the government(or Sheriff) can show good cause for withholding that right (mental instability, criminal convictions, etc.)
It really is that simple
Well I’m glad that I live in the U.S.A., and not California.
I carry concealed in my vehicle, or openly wherever I want, no *&%$!! permit required.
I have a suggestion: Anybody who lives in California should be required to get a permit to travel out of California to another state. Any person living in the state that the Californian is going to visit can refuse the Californian’s entrance, for any reason.
Also, Californians’ votes should not count in national elections.
America needs to build a wall that seals off California from America.
Californians need to be enslaved and dragged off to underground salt mines.