California County to Revoke Concealed Carry Permits on Law Abiding Citizens
Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
When does the right to keep and bear arms not give a person the right to keep and bear arms? When you live in Orange County California. The new sheriff of Orange County California has decided that she wants to revoke many of the concealed carry permits issued under the previous sheriff. Not because any of these people committed a crime, (on the contrary, some of these people theoretically may have prevented a crime because they chose to carry), but because she just doesn’t believe in the second amendment.
she is now encountering blowback from Orange County’s permit holders, including the 442 who have been sent letters saying that they have to justify keeping the permit they were issued by the previous sheriff
She wants them to justify why they should be able to keep their concealed carry permits but the justification is pretty evident if you just read this document. That document provides all the justification anybody needs to carry a concealed weapon. From that document:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! That sums it up well. That is the only justification that these people need. Yet not only is she willing to infringe upon this right, she is going after law abiding citizens who have done nothing wrong other than exercising their second amendment rights.
She is also making it harder for her constituents to gain a concealed carry permit.
Hutchens’ new policy requires that to get a concealed firearm permit, applicants must prove there is a legitimate threat to their safety and agree to undergo possible psychological, polygraph, or medical testing.
By the time a person proves that there could be a threat to his safety he could wind up dead, having been unable to defend himself. In my humble opinion the county would be better served if the new sheriff decided to leave law abiding citizens who have made the decision to protect themselves by exercising their second amendment rights alone and instead focused on the criminals and illegal aliens who are breaking the law and threatening the security of those same law abiding citizens.
But that is just my opinion, a radical Republican who still believes that the second amendment applies to the people and that law breaking criminals are the ones who should be targeted and brought to justice. We shouldn’t coddle them and we shouldn’t try to “understand” them, we should punish them. I know how crazy that sounds, but I guess I am just an old fashioned guy.
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So because we have a constitutional right to keep weapons and maintain a militia, that automatically gives you the right to carry a concealed weapon on your persons? What the sheriff is doing is just insuring that CWP don’t fall into the wrong hands.
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These are law abiding citizens, the previous sheriff already made sure that these permits did not fall in the wrong hands with the background checks. What the sheriff should be focusing on is making sure that future permits don’t fall in the wrong hands not harrassing the law abiding citizens.
She could also try going after the criminals who are illegally buying guns and using them against the law abiding citizens.
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It appears that the FACTS, that throughout the US where concealed carry laws are liberalized, allowing law abiding citizens to more easily obtain carry permits, crime rates have gone down…dramatically, are just ignored.
There are innumerable laws on the books denying criminals the right to posses firearms and not surprisingly they break those laws. Wow, they’re criminals. Only law abiding people obey the law and do not carry firearms where the law says they cannot.
A law abiding citizen who desires a carry permit goes through an extensive background check to assure no criminal history nor history of mental disorder. The criminal, well he’s a criminal, and doesn’t bother. Law abiding citizens carrying firearms reduce crime. Criminals carry them to commit crimes.
Gee, it appears that criminals have a superior ability to carry a concealed weapon, and do, compared to the law abiding citizenry!
The right to keep and bear firearms is recognized in the Constitution, as is the right to free speech. I know that there are those who want to eliminate guns from society mistakenly think criminals will no longer have the tools to commit crime. Registration of baseball bats will be required. I also know that many of those same people believe that I should not have the right to voice my opposition to their ideas. Is there a pattern here?
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Criminals don’t wait for things to fall into their hands. They take what they want. “legitimate threat to their safety”? To me this sounds like she wants to make sure only the illegal immigrant juveniles can carry concealed weapons. Great.
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