A note before this weeks post:
Once again there has been a cold-blooded, hate fueled attack resulting in the deaths of three law enforcement officers, with three more injured, one barely clinging to life as I write. Elsewhere in this country, other officers have been shot and assaulted in the past 24 hours. While we wait for the details to come out, I ask you please take a moment to keep these offices and their families in your thoughts and prayers.
I also say to not let the coward thugs; punk criminals; terrorist wannabes and idiots of the world dictate our lives to us. If anyone is going to live in fear, it should be them. It IS time for a change.
Bob
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California’s Powdered Wig Governor
Unless you were living under a rock over the 4th of July weekend, you heard California’s Governor signed a series of draconian gun control bills into law, then ran off to holiday in Europe. How positively colonial of him.
Less than 24 hours from when the bills were sent to him by the State legislature, the Governor signed six of them into law. Apparently he needed no further reflection, analysis or input on whether or not to strip the Second Amendment rights from the law-abiding firearm owners of his state. It’s almost as if they were predestined to be law and his signature was merely a formality.
The timing couldn’t be more of a slap in the face to citizens of our state and nation. Just days before Independence Day; the day thirteen former British colonies declared their independence from their oppressive British rulers. To top it off, California’s Governor then quickly scuttled off to Europe for a two-week vacation before the ink was even dry on these new authoritarian laws. His British Colonial Governor predecessors would have been proud and even a bit jealous. California’s Governor didn’t have to endure a slow sailing ship across the Atlantic to escape criticism from the commoners; he simply hopped on the private jet of a rich friend.
As is the norm for California’s government, all of the laws were in the name of “public safety” yet not a single one targeted criminals. Each and every one signed by the Governor targets law abiding firearms owners in the state.
So, what happens now?
Some are petitioning for a recall of the Governor along with calls for non-compliance and non-registration, plans to store firearms out of state with family and friends as well as plans to purchase of pallets of ammunition. Several manufacturers have already come up with new workarounds to the bullet button ban and even more hardware to eliminate “evil features”.
While all of these responses are laudable, there are some problems with them. The chances of successfully recalling the current Governor over this issue alone are exceedingly remote. Non-compliance may not be an option for some, as their professional licenses would be put in jeopardy if discovered. Taking firearms out of state does protect your ability to sell or hand down firearms to your descendants, but only if they move out of California. It also serves the State’s purpose of removing the “evil” firearm from its borders. Buying ammunition in bulk now to avoid the new in State-only purchase and background check system is a stopgap measure at best. How much ammo would you need to buy now to last the rest of your life? And finally, while I applaud the industry for coming up with the next great bullet button workarounds, these too are just temporary measures. Keep in mind one of the bills that did not pass this year would have made ALL magazine fed centerfire rifles a California “Assault Weapon”. Just as they successfully targeted bullet button firearms this year, you can be sure it will be proposed again and again and again until it does pass.
It’s important to remember the long-term goal of the anti-gun movement in California; the complete elimination of private firearm ownership. Each one of these laws moves them closer to that goal. Each firearm registered to become extinct with the current generation of owners and each firearm moved out of state gets them closer to that goal. Each firearm owner who gives up and moves out of the state removes another voice and another vote from California, gets them closer to that goal.
What needs to happen? California needs to stop blaming crime on the law abiding. California needs to stop blaming inanimate objects or irrelevant cosmetic features for the actions of criminals. California needs to punish those who commit crimes instead of those who have done everything by the book all their lives. What California needs is to take back our state in the name of sanity.
So while our Governor is in Europe being fitted for his new powdered wig to go along with his British Colonial way of thinking, it’s time for the citizens of California to start standing up to the government that no longer represents them. It’s time for real leaders who believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the ideals this nation was founded on to step forward. And right now may just be our last opportunity.
Bob
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