The Nonsense State of California

If anyone doubts that Democrats are knee-jerk reactionaries, they need only look at California for assurances. Our Democrat super-majority passed no fewer than ten Senate bills and five Assembly bills to chip away major portions of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. Does anyone doubt that the head Democrat, Gerry Brown will sign these into law? If you voted for these people, shame on you.

Not one of these bills will make even the slightest difference in gun related crime. On the contrary, these bills will make criminals of those already legally in possession of weapons intended for self-protection, home protection, hunting, and sport shooting.

There is not a single bill related to curbing the violent tendencies of those with the mindset to create carnage. Recently in England -- a country with incredible gun control -- a Muslim radical hacked to death a decorated soldier in the streets of London and proudly made a video of it. There was not a gun in sight, only kitchen knives, and a meat cleaver.

On April 11, Dylan Quick allegedly stabbed more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college. He told investigators that he had fantasized about cannibalism and necrophilia and about cutting off people’s faces and wearing them as masks, according to a court document made public. Quick also told an investigator that he had researched mass stabbings on his home computer about a week before the attack at Lone Star College in Cypress, Texas, according to a search warrant affidavit. Again, there were no guns used in this attack.

If you bother to Google “Knife Attacks”, you will come up with page, upon page of hits for reported carnage perpetrated by people who can only be described as criminally insane. Yet their weapon of choice was not a firearm, it was a knife. You can find similar results for just about any other potential weapon, from baseball bats to golf clubs to hammers.

Are these attacks less heinous than those involving firearms? No, they are just not sensational enough to be as widely reported. Democrats, always hungry for anything to control, seem to inevitably glom onto sensational news reports with instant legislation, often without much forethought other than to make a name for themselves as being concerned. They seldom seem to take into account the overwhelming mass of people who would never even think of committing a crime or act of aggression with any type of weapon.

With fifteen anti-gun bills on the Governor’s desk, it is obvious that this is not about public safety. It is about legislators making a name within their party for creating legislation – any kind of legislation – related to a sensational news event. Will this legislation prevent or even hinder criminal action? Not very likely. Is this even well thought out legislation? Definitely not! Not a single piece of this legislation addresses the mental state of a person likely to commit a grievous act of violence. Does any of this legislation provide additional security at venues where a mentally deranged shooter might visit? No on that account too.

What these fifteen pieces of thoughtless legislation will do is make instant criminals of those of us who now own firearms or gun components named in the bills. There are no provisions for “Grandfathering”. You can either turn in your possessions without compensation or risk going to jail. Of course, before our Democrat Governor signs the bills into law, you can always find a “gun buy-back location” and get a chit for something at the supermarket. Maybe you could use it to buy a six-pack of beer to ease the pain of trashing a weapon you paid hundreds for.

To those who voted for this super-majority, don’t complain when they do to you rather than for you. You voted for them; now reap what you have sown. As for me, I will be looking for property in a state where reason prevails.