gravedigger
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Hello folks, I am a self-employed man, age 50, who lives in southern California. I am the owner and sole proprietor of a specialized towing company. I am a conservative, a gun owner, and a life member of the NRA.
The scope of my work requires that I respond to random and often remote locations at all hours of the day and night including weekends and holidays, and I always respond ALONE. Each call could potentially be a setup for an ambush by thugs who may want the cash I carry (sometimes as much as $5,000.00 for paying impound fees to spring my customer's vehicles from other tow yards or police impounds, etc.), the computer, navigation, photographic and communication equipment onboard, the expensive hydraulic and electrical systems installed, or the unit itself for the drivetrain and other costly parts, not to mention the fact that I usually arrive at the location with a fuel tank that is FULL or nearly full.
My unit is capable of moving up to five of these vehicles simultaneously. When I am rolling down the road transporting one of my customer's mega-thousand dollar custom vehicles, with my telephone number prominently displayed on my vehicle, I often receive an "emergency roadside service call" which diverts me from my intended destination in order to handle the emergency. Sometimes the diverted destination is convenient. Sometimes it seems it is TOO convenient.
Thugs can call me from a vehicle which is following me, or has passed me, to request that I drive directly to a remote location of their choosing, feigning some urgent need for a tire change or a jump start, etc. In these situations, I cannot drop off my current cargo before responding to the new call, so I arrive with whatver is on my unit at the time. On occasion I have repsonded to this type of call while I already have $100,000.00 worth of private vehicles on my unit.
I am not stupid, so when I am called to a remote spot in this situation, I am very careful to circle the area first, to look for people and vehicles lying in wait or other threats that would dictate abandonment of the call. I am not "Rambo" and I have no desire to enter into a confrontation where I am outnumbered and at a disadvantage. I have no desire to enter into a "shootout" over replaceable property, but I also have no desire to be found lying behind some warehouse with an axe in my forehead. For this reason, I would prefer to have the unrestricted RIGHT to carry a loaded firearm for my own defense.
In California, there are so many unnecessarily and ridiculously restrictive "feel good" rules created by the liberals. One of them concerns the posession or transport of a firearm near a "school" as if an honest citizen, simply by walking past a school with a firearm on his belt will draw his weapon and begin blasting away innocent children. Liberals see the gun as having a mind of its own, so even the "nice guys" with guns will be powerless to avoid a massacre when they are near a "school" with a gun.
I see this as a VERY dangerous law which must be struck down at any cost. California is working tirelessly to "build new schools" and "reduce class sizes" ... It would seem that they are striving for a better education for our children, but the dark and evil truth of the matter is, wherever there is a "school," you cannot carry a gun.
What defines a "school?" Certainly the big schools are clear enough, but California liberals also call large day care centers "schools", as well as home-based day care centers, and even the Driving "schools" where you go to listen to someone remind you to stop at a red light are "schools" according to the gun-grabbing liberals.
The 1,000-foot restriction on gun carry and posession could conceiveably make entire cities "gun-free zones" as liberals expand the definition of "schools" to include children who are "home-schooled" so all that is necessary in California to ban guns is to call SOME place every 2000 yards apart a "school."
Hello folks, I am a self-employed man, age 50, who lives in southern California. I am the owner and sole proprietor of a specialized towing company. I am a conservative, a gun owner, and a life member of the NRA.
The scope of my work requires that I respond to random and often remote locations at all hours of the day and night including weekends and holidays, and I always respond ALONE. Each call could potentially be a setup for an ambush by thugs who may want the cash I carry (sometimes as much as $5,000.00 for paying impound fees to spring my customer's vehicles from other tow yards or police impounds, etc.), the computer, navigation, photographic and communication equipment onboard, the expensive hydraulic and electrical systems installed, or the unit itself for the drivetrain and other costly parts, not to mention the fact that I usually arrive at the location with a fuel tank that is FULL or nearly full.
My unit is capable of moving up to five of these vehicles simultaneously. When I am rolling down the road transporting one of my customer's mega-thousand dollar custom vehicles, with my telephone number prominently displayed on my vehicle, I often receive an "emergency roadside service call" which diverts me from my intended destination in order to handle the emergency. Sometimes the diverted destination is convenient. Sometimes it seems it is TOO convenient.
Thugs can call me from a vehicle which is following me, or has passed me, to request that I drive directly to a remote location of their choosing, feigning some urgent need for a tire change or a jump start, etc. In these situations, I cannot drop off my current cargo before responding to the new call, so I arrive with whatver is on my unit at the time. On occasion I have repsonded to this type of call while I already have $100,000.00 worth of private vehicles on my unit.
I am not stupid, so when I am called to a remote spot in this situation, I am very careful to circle the area first, to look for people and vehicles lying in wait or other threats that would dictate abandonment of the call. I am not "Rambo" and I have no desire to enter into a confrontation where I am outnumbered and at a disadvantage. I have no desire to enter into a "shootout" over replaceable property, but I also have no desire to be found lying behind some warehouse with an axe in my forehead. For this reason, I would prefer to have the unrestricted RIGHT to carry a loaded firearm for my own defense.
In California, there are so many unnecessarily and ridiculously restrictive "feel good" rules created by the liberals. One of them concerns the posession or transport of a firearm near a "school" as if an honest citizen, simply by walking past a school with a firearm on his belt will draw his weapon and begin blasting away innocent children. Liberals see the gun as having a mind of its own, so even the "nice guys" with guns will be powerless to avoid a massacre when they are near a "school" with a gun.
I see this as a VERY dangerous law which must be struck down at any cost. California is working tirelessly to "build new schools" and "reduce class sizes" ... It would seem that they are striving for a better education for our children, but the dark and evil truth of the matter is, wherever there is a "school," you cannot carry a gun.
What defines a "school?" Certainly the big schools are clear enough, but California liberals also call large day care centers "schools", as well as home-based day care centers, and even the Driving "schools" where you go to listen to someone remind you to stop at a red light are "schools" according to the gun-grabbing liberals.
The 1,000-foot restriction on gun carry and posession could conceiveably make entire cities "gun-free zones" as liberals expand the definition of "schools" to include children who are "home-schooled" so all that is necessary in California to ban guns is to call SOME place every 2000 yards apart a "school."
). I'm not saying to toy with an arrest for this section but being or crossing through the zones is not a crime without knowledge of the definition of this section AND knowing exactly where 1000' extends to.
