steele
Regular Member
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This onerous bill actually passed the California Assembly's Committee of Public Safety, for the first time - a ominous portent of the future. Thankfully it had been re-referred to the Assembly Committee on Appropriations: so we still have an opportunity to keep it from reaching the House Floor! Even if you live out of state, this will affect all open carry advocates - contact the members of the Committee on Appropriations and tell them to shut this bill down!!
Here is their website w/contact info: http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.asp?committee=43
I've compiled their e-mails for ease of copy and paste e-mailing of the entire committee:
Assemblymember.Fuentes@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Conway@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Ammiano@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Bradford@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Calderon@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.coto@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Davis@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.deLeon@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Hall@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Harkey@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Miller@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Nielsen@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Norby@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Skinner@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Solorio@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Torlakson@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.torrico@assembly.ca.gov
Here is my letter to the entire committee:
Dear California Legislators of the Assembly Committee on Appropriations,
I am a concerned Californian citizen, as I have recently been made aware of a bill referred to your committee: A.B. 1934. This bill is unlawful on its face, as it violates the U.S. Constitution. Before I clarify my position, let me remind the committee that all of you were required to swear an oath to "defend and protect" both the California and U.S. Constitution, as a prerequisite to holding the office you do today. Violating this oath is clear grounds for your removal - there is no middle ground to debate.
The most prohibitive clause, related to A.B. 1934, can be found in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, "No State shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." In the wording of the proposed bill, it clearly aims to limit open carry, of firearms, to a select group of persons: private security guards and law enforcement personnel, while banning it for the other 99+% of the population. The aim of A.B. 1934, to selectively ban a natural right, is unmistakably in conflict with the U.S. Constitution. Letting this bill go to the floor for a vote would be a cognizant violation of your sworn oaths to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution.
Just in case you may try to justify the ban on open carry, by pointing out concealed carry as an available option...any California Sheriff will inform you they prohibitively discriminate in their offering of Concealed Carry Permits. Concealed carry cannot be considered a legitimate substitute for open carry, under current statutes. At the same time, although unnecessary, there are strong arguments for loaded, open carry in California. If you run the numbers (0.5% incarceration rate; 0.1% LEOs per capita) you will see that in a disarmed society, police are currently outgunned by criminals 5:1, at minimum; on the other hand, if just 5% of ordinary, law abiding citizens (99.5% of population) were to regularly and openly carry loaded firearms, criminals would be visibly outgunned 5:1. It should not go without saying volumes are spoken when a California State legislator would even contemplate implementing laws the States explicitly denied the Federal government, in the 2nd Amendment: a statement of American's inalienable right to keep and bear arms. If you haven't recently, please also review (read) the Declaration of Independence: which embodies the principles and philosophies of a prosperous, free, and egalitarian society.
I also strongly urge you to review legislature enacted, particularly with regard to unequal restrictions on gun carry, e.g. A.B. 668, 1000ft perimeters around schools, ban on carry in government buildings, and restricting loaded (ready) firearms, or any other restriction that law enforcement/private security may currently be exempted from. Please don't disappoint Californians and mar our States' reputation any further.
Sincerely,
Michael Remington
California Citizen
This onerous bill actually passed the California Assembly's Committee of Public Safety, for the first time - a ominous portent of the future. Thankfully it had been re-referred to the Assembly Committee on Appropriations: so we still have an opportunity to keep it from reaching the House Floor! Even if you live out of state, this will affect all open carry advocates - contact the members of the Committee on Appropriations and tell them to shut this bill down!!
Here is their website w/contact info: http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.asp?committee=43
I've compiled their e-mails for ease of copy and paste e-mailing of the entire committee:
Assemblymember.Fuentes@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Conway@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Ammiano@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Bradford@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Calderon@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.coto@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Davis@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.deLeon@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Hall@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Harkey@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Miller@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Nielsen@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Norby@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Skinner@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Solorio@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Torlakson@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.torrico@assembly.ca.gov
Here is my letter to the entire committee:
Dear California Legislators of the Assembly Committee on Appropriations,
I am a concerned Californian citizen, as I have recently been made aware of a bill referred to your committee: A.B. 1934. This bill is unlawful on its face, as it violates the U.S. Constitution. Before I clarify my position, let me remind the committee that all of you were required to swear an oath to "defend and protect" both the California and U.S. Constitution, as a prerequisite to holding the office you do today. Violating this oath is clear grounds for your removal - there is no middle ground to debate.
The most prohibitive clause, related to A.B. 1934, can be found in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, "No State shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." In the wording of the proposed bill, it clearly aims to limit open carry, of firearms, to a select group of persons: private security guards and law enforcement personnel, while banning it for the other 99+% of the population. The aim of A.B. 1934, to selectively ban a natural right, is unmistakably in conflict with the U.S. Constitution. Letting this bill go to the floor for a vote would be a cognizant violation of your sworn oaths to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution.
Just in case you may try to justify the ban on open carry, by pointing out concealed carry as an available option...any California Sheriff will inform you they prohibitively discriminate in their offering of Concealed Carry Permits. Concealed carry cannot be considered a legitimate substitute for open carry, under current statutes. At the same time, although unnecessary, there are strong arguments for loaded, open carry in California. If you run the numbers (0.5% incarceration rate; 0.1% LEOs per capita) you will see that in a disarmed society, police are currently outgunned by criminals 5:1, at minimum; on the other hand, if just 5% of ordinary, law abiding citizens (99.5% of population) were to regularly and openly carry loaded firearms, criminals would be visibly outgunned 5:1. It should not go without saying volumes are spoken when a California State legislator would even contemplate implementing laws the States explicitly denied the Federal government, in the 2nd Amendment: a statement of American's inalienable right to keep and bear arms. If you haven't recently, please also review (read) the Declaration of Independence: which embodies the principles and philosophies of a prosperous, free, and egalitarian society.
I also strongly urge you to review legislature enacted, particularly with regard to unequal restrictions on gun carry, e.g. A.B. 668, 1000ft perimeters around schools, ban on carry in government buildings, and restricting loaded (ready) firearms, or any other restriction that law enforcement/private security may currently be exempted from. Please don't disappoint Californians and mar our States' reputation any further.
Sincerely,
Michael Remington
California Citizen