Monday, July 03, 2017

It is the way it should be in California.

I am not troubled by it? What is there to be troubled about? No one can carry a concealed weapon without a valid reason.

We do not live in the wild west. We are civilized people who do not succumb to guns to end arguments. The courts are where disagreements that cannot be settled from resolve.

There are no good guys with a gun on every corner or in every crowd or every night club. It is time the streets become safer and this is the best start I have heard to date.

July 3, 2017
By John-Michael Seibler

The Second Amendment (click here) is subject to persistent threats these days, and it didn’t receive any help from a majority of the Supreme Court last week.

By a margin of 7-2, the court denied review in a gun rights case out of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Peruta v. California.

The decision leaves in place a troubling California statute requiring residents to prove to their county sheriff that they have some “good cause” to carry a firearm in order to receive a concealed carry permit.

Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, authored a dissent that explains why the court’s decision not to hear the case is disappointing....