Couple of things I was thinking of in regards to this.
1967... Black men bring loaded weapons to the capitol, and scare the legislators, the media, and the LE....Knee jerk reaction right a law that knocks the legs out from that group so they cant do it again.... The issue, the law on its face is unconstituional but, no one challenges it at the time or in the intervening 40+ years. The reality an entire generation of California LE and civilians are brought up to believe that guns are evil and they must be stopped.
2011.. for a copule of years now, smart aleck, attituded youngsters parade around with handguns in the open in accordance with the law, (or loophole depending on your outlook) written 40+ years ago, who does this piss off and scare???? citizens? not so much, many encounters I experienced most people were asleep the small amount of others were fascination and approval very few scornful glances or sreaming fleeing people. Legislators and elected officials?? not so much either, until its brought to their attention.
LE and anti gun groups??? HELLS to the yes this pisses them off... The chief I spoke to was pissed they had to handle 100's and 100's of phone calls from anti gun people screaming for something to be done... But is that enough to get things done??? dont LE chiefs have people call and complain all the time? what made this instance different??? What about law abiding citizens carrying guns in public made the police chiefs and mayors and city councils and legislators so afraid????
POWER and MONEY.... those phone calls came from prominent powerful behind the scenes leaders of big government Dem/Liberal organizations that want CONTROL. Remember Gun Control is never about the gun its always about the control.
By demonstrating the slightest inkling of self reliance, we threatened the voting power base for the Democratic controlled CA government, and the money source for police departments funding. As well as the power base of Dem/Libs.
Here is the issue as I see it now, Open Carry pushed, and the government (democrats and police chiefs) pushed back harder. They want it to go back asleep for another 40+ years and continue strengthening the dependence of citizens on large government run police force and democratic liberal control legislation.. the fear mongers.
SO the question now is what happens if we UOC handguns using exemptions, or LGOC to avoid the new law????
The Power and Money will use the media to paint us into the image of crazy out of control whacko gun toting angry black men on the steps of the Capitol. Which wont be hard if we tote long guns, especially EBR's because that fits the terrorizing stories the media loves to portray. It worked ok with handguns but with Long guns the image and story will be a slam dunk on the 6 oclock news.
I personally saw senior LE officials lie to the TV news crews to spin the story they watned the public to see and hear, and purposely avoid news outlets that wanted to show the other side of the story. So while many of us think this is a battle of rights and laws on the streets, it is not... This battle is in the living rooms and on the tv of the 6 oclock news. the mainstream medias portrayl of what they want people to believe is going on...
If we want to succeed in changing the political landscape of this State, we need to attack the power base and money source of our opponents, This will call for a radically different approach then what has happend in the past few years...