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California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety
Re: AB 357
To the Members of the State Safety Committee:
As a voting Californian, please vote 'yes' on AB 357, the Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) reform bill.
You should support this bill because:
1. It fixes a system which is broken, unfair and highly discriminatory
2. It helps California's public safety at no cost
3. It brings California into compliance with the rest of the country
4. It directly protects the safety of retired police officers
This bill will finally bring equal protection under the law to the citizens of California who were previously subject to the personal whims and moods of 58 separate county Sheriffs and hundreds of city Police Chiefs.
California's current statutory requirement to show “good cause” [which is currently undefined by the statute] has been grossly misused and abused by various county Sheriffs and Police Chiefs for too many years, and the current system is flawed to the point of being useless.
For 58 separate county Sheriffs to make determinations that certain citizens are more deserving of the right to protect and defend themselves because they hold a particular job, are in a particular income range, are of a certain race or sexual orientation or have donated to a re-election campaign is the height of hubris and reeks of an attitude of Aristocracy.
While I do not have a personal relationship with our Sheriff or contribute to their re-election campaign, carry large sums of cash, or transport briefcases full of diamond jewelry, I do have one irreplaceable and highly-valuable commodity: my life and those of my family and friends. To be told that a merchant’s daily deposits are more worthy of protection and defense than the lives of my loved ones is a personal insult- one which is remembered at the voting booth.
Assembly Bill 357 will allow law abiding citizens the fundamental right to self defense that has thus far been denied by the State of California. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the police have no constitutional duty to protect- please do not continue to hinder our fundamental and constitutional right to protect ourselves by failing to pass AB 357.
Over the past 20 years 38 states have passed "Shall Issue" CCW laws which none have since repealed; all experienced a decrease in violent crime rates after passage, a goal we should all strive for here in California.
Pass this bill.
Regards,
Assembly Member Jose Solorio (D-69) - Chair
(916) 319-2069
Assemblymember.solorio@assembly.ca.gov
Assembly Member Curt Hagman (R-60) - Vice Chair
(916) 319-2060
Assemblymember.Hagman@assembly.ca.gov
Assembly Member Warren T. Furutani (D-55)
(916) 319-2055
Assemblymember.Furutani@assembly.ca.gov
Assembly Member Danny D. Gilmore (R-30)
(916) 319-2030
Assemblymember.Gilmore@assembly.ca.gov
Assembly Member Jerry Hill (D-19)
(916) 319-2019
Assemblymember.Hill@assembly.ca.gov
Assembly Member Fiona Ma (D-12)
(916) 319-2012
Assemblymember.Ma@assembly.ca.gov
Assembly Member Nancy Skinner (D-14)
(916) 319-2014
Assemblymember.Skinner@assembly.ca.gov
