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Open Carry Crowd Takes Aim at Bill
By Annette Fuentes on May 28, 2010 - 6:00 a.m. PDT
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Those open carry gun enthusiasts who've been showing up in Starbucks and other public places with guns holstered on their hips are in a tizzy. Assembly Bill 1934 is inching forward in the Legislature, and that bill would void California's existing law that allows people to openly carry hand guns—as long as they are unloaded. AB 1934 was authored by San Diego Assemblywoman Lori Saldana, whom Examiner.com contributorand open-carry proponentCharles Nichols refers to as a "term limited nutter."
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Many reacted gleefully to comments made by UC Berkeley law and criminal justice professor Frank Zimring at a Commonwealth Club forum on the open carry issue Wednesday night.
There, Zimring reportedly said that AB 1934 wouldn't make the public safer.
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Meanwhile, the latest data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, released this week, seems to lend credence to the idea that carrying a gun around town, albeit unloaded, may be more about ideology than protection. Even in an economic recession, when many would anticipate a spike in crime, the opposite has been true. For the third year in a row, violent crime was down in 2009—by 5.5 percent. Homicide was down by 7.2 percent. The downward trend has been underway for a decade, and criminologists, including Zimring, aren't sure why it's happening or when it could change.
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http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/open-carry-crowd-takes-aim-bill
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Open Carry Crowd Takes Aim at Bill
By Annette Fuentes on May 28, 2010 - 6:00 a.m. PDT
https://citizen-media.s3.amazonaws..../5/revolver/lightbox/297794102_6039786881.jpg
Those open carry gun enthusiasts who've been showing up in Starbucks and other public places with guns holstered on their hips are in a tizzy. Assembly Bill 1934 is inching forward in the Legislature, and that bill would void California's existing law that allows people to openly carry hand guns—as long as they are unloaded. AB 1934 was authored by San Diego Assemblywoman Lori Saldana, whom Examiner.com contributorand open-carry proponentCharles Nichols refers to as a "term limited nutter."
. . .
Many reacted gleefully to comments made by UC Berkeley law and criminal justice professor Frank Zimring at a Commonwealth Club forum on the open carry issue Wednesday night.
There, Zimring reportedly said that AB 1934 wouldn't make the public safer.
. . .
Meanwhile, the latest data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, released this week, seems to lend credence to the idea that carrying a gun around town, albeit unloaded, may be more about ideology than protection. Even in an economic recession, when many would anticipate a spike in crime, the opposite has been true. For the third year in a row, violent crime was down in 2009—by 5.5 percent. Homicide was down by 7.2 percent. The downward trend has been underway for a decade, and criminologists, including Zimring, aren't sure why it's happening or when it could change.
. . .
