California Assembly advances bill to ban carrying unloaded guns
Citing safety concerns, the Assembly passed a bill Tuesday that would make it illegal to openly carry a gun in public, even if it is unloaded.
Yup.
How can a rapist, a mugger, a bank robber, or a murderer ever be sure of their safety, if the average citizen is allowed to carry weapons? Allowing innocent victims to carry weapons and protect themselves from criminals makes the streets of California an unsafe working environment for your average criminal. And considering that in a budget saving move by legislators to release violent felons early and without oversight, allowing innocent victims to carry weapons, even unloaded weapons, sends the wrong message. How can California ever become the sanctuary state for criminals it hopes to be if it allows innocent victims to protect themselves?
Maybe it is time for the criminals to start their own union. That way, the criminals will have a dedicated organization standing up for their rights. While politicians normally tend to protect criminals rights, they are not as consistent about it as they should be. If the criminals can reward the legislators every time the legislators take a stand that protects the criminals rights over the rights of innocent victims, then we would have a more uniform standard of protecting criminals and harassing innocent victims and potential victims. In fact, a criminals union would be the one union that all politicians could join without compromising their morals. I am sure that all the violent criminals would be willing to allow all the non-violent criminals (politicians) to join. Or maybe all politicians would be honorary members because of their pro crime and anti victim and anti legal citizen activities.
Maybe even a new motto.
Commit a crime, become a politician.
They already have one, with its own lobbying group -- usually called the Mafia for short. The problem is that it's only open to the nobility of crime, and not nearly as welcoming to petty criminals and local thugs as might be ideal in a perfect California world.
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