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Los Angeles Gun Rights Examiner John Longenecker wrote a column last week about a woman murdered while police were watching her apartment to protect her. Decrying the effect of California's citizen disarmament edicts at facilitating such victimization, Longenecker wondered if political change was on the way to help turn things around:
Kalifornia is seeing a new run for Governor in Meg Whitman. She sounds like she has experience at real-life performance in business, the accountability of office, she articulates values well and not the bookkeeping fantasies of liberal theory. Would Whitman change how crime is met and survived?
I'll answer that, John.
No. And her business experience was being CEO of anti-gun eBay, which, despite their excuse-making could service the gun owner community if they wanted to. Just ask GunBroker.com.
From the San Francisco Chronicle story headlined "Meg Whitman makes case on how she's different":
Whitman said she...believes tough gun laws like assault weapon bans and handgun control are appropriate for California.
There's no "difference" here. If she wins, it'll be yet another case of "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."
California gun owners accepted Arnold Schwarzenegger, who also made his anti-gun positions known in advance, and look what it got them.
Unless Republicans everywhere understand RINO aspirants are unacceptable, they'll keep foisting them on us and counting on people swallowing whatever rotten offerings they serve out of fear of what the other guy will do to them.
Some of us won't play that game any more.
If that results in the new edicts we're told will be inevitable, well, some of us won't play that game, either.
We will not disarm.
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Glad you mentioned this, David. I was going to ask to interview all three republican candidates - Whitman, Campbell and Poizner - but my due diligence brought me to the same conclusion, so I 'elected' not to speak with them at all.
I have another piece in mind I'm calling "Keeping the K in Kalifornia."
Aufewiedersehen.
Obama believes that Second Amendment rights should vary depending on localized criteria. What works in Little Rock doesn't work in Chicago or Philadelphia. But I'd like someone to explain why Second Amendment rights are not the same kind of rights as in the First Amendment or the Fourteenth. Suppose the legislature in Utah established the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints as the state religion? Wouldn't Obamas logic apply there as well? Would local conditions be the deciding factor then? If not, then why not? Suppose that one of the states in the old south decided to bring back slavery, again citing local needs? Would Obama be OK with that?
In fact, the SCOTUS has been ducking the intent of the Fourteenth for over a hundred years. No state may pass any law abridging the rights of any US citizen, without due process of law. Hopefully the incorporation cases currently before the court will straighten some of this foolishness out.
The real problem with the People's Demokratik Republik of Kollyvornia is that most of the voters (illegal aliens, hippies, and such--don't kid yourselves. They vote.) are overwhelmingly Marxist. The true Americans are in the minority, so the Republicans have to put up RINOS, or they won't win.
BTW, I didn't vote for Herr Sturmgruppen. I didn't vote for Cruz Bustataxes, either.
If I could, I'd vote with my feet, and leave this bankrupt Marxist pit.
DDS--He SAYS what works in Chicago doesn't necessarily work in Cheyenne as a political concession to allay fears and mask his record, but if you'll notice, everything he has proposed and supported "works" EVERYWHERE.
Why wouldn't his ideas work David? He has the guns bombs and tanks to back them up.
As for Meg and the other AINOs (Americans in name only) they can take their failed political systems back to any of the 3rd world countries they picked them up in. And stay there.
We are not slaves. We are not children. We are the folks who temporarily put you "people" into office to manage government, to ensure our collective security (as you have said you have no individual responsibility and we agree since we would have a police state if you did) and to essentially stay out of our way while we handle our own lives. It appears you have forgot that in greater numbers over the last few years. You are not our caregivers, you are a janitor we hired to keep the place clean until someone better comes along to replace you.
Hopefully, Tom, because a critical mass of oath takers manning those guns, tanks and bombs will turn out to be Oath Keepers who find common cause with those of us who will not disarm.
"...... out of fear of what the other guy will do to them."-David
My response to situations like that has always been, "You would be better served worrying about what I will do to you." That is an appropriate response whether they wish to harm you for fear of some third entity or whether they threaten you with what they themselves will do to you.
David,
Another fine article, thanks. I am proud of you for keeping the topics timely and the discussion peaceful and constructive...nice work!
"The real problem with the People's Demokratik Republik of Kollyvornia...."
Close, but no cigar! The real problem with the Golden State is the same problem we have here in Florida, and everywhere else in the country. The majority of US citizens are not even registered to vote. The majority of those registered don't bother to show up on election day. The majority of those don't pay any attention to the issues to be decided until Labor Day, long after "their" candidates have been selected for them by an even smaller group in the primaries. Then they go in and play "multiple guess" with their ballot, go home and feel good about their participation in a democracy.
Ummm I got to disagree with you here Dave. It's not Republicans, it's Americans.
Great article Dave. Meg Whitman is just another CA anti-Second Amendment pol.
Hopefully, if SCOTUS rules for incorporation of the 2A in McDonald, local gun laws in California will also be rendered null and void, since a SCOTUS ruling applies in all 50 states. I think the next municipal gun law to be challenged will be New York City's infamous Sullivan Act.
Oh yeah, voting is sooo important. Voting is for suckers. It has worked so well. 20,000 gun laws and counting, the constitution regularily ignored, police, judges and prosecuters with no honor much less accountability. Face it you fools, voting no longer works and cannot be used to effect meaningful change. This system has become rediculously corrupt and getting worse. The percentage of voters and how they cast their ballots changes nothing. Voting continues but it is only a sham used to placate the populouse. The real control has been siezed from the voters slowly and effectivly over the years. Get over it. Voting does nothing. There is only 1 way left to make a real change.
Ace Cards,
It's been said that the American republic rests on a foundation of four boxes: the soap box, the jury box, the ballot box, and the cartridge box. Are you saying you've given up on the first three and are ready to go for the fourth? I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not saying you're the only one who feels that way. But I am saying, Lord help us if you all are right. We're going to need it.
So who should we be supporting for Gov this time around?
RINO's is how Kalifornia works. Silver spoon and a paper plate. Give me a free latte and call the PO PO if someone wants to take it from me. "Wait!!! don't steel it!! I have to make a call to the police first to help me"
Liberal is Liberal.
Whitman knows she wont get elected as a DEM because of Davis, but the Republican ticket in CA is 50/50 Rep/Dem and not the true values of Republicans. She feels she will not win as an Independent as that will buck the political party system and break all the party lines.
Kalifornia politicians are a disappointment. It's all about "Me Me Me" in this state. You live what you learn I figure. Its time to get out if I can ever sell my house for what I owe. You should too. Run Forest Run !!!!
This will end up a Hobo ridden, Welfare paying, over taxed, business un-friendly, criminal released program, Unarmed, dependent on government, "Give me, Give me, Give me" state.
Just my two cents......
I am for the gun owners> the government no longer works for the people but we work for the government and they have an agenda and will carry it out unless the people of the United states take up and stick together as a unit and get these people out of their office. They had over 10 million pink slips to fire those in the congress and senate why are they still there?
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