A US appeals court Saturday paved the way for a California law banning the concealed carry of firearms in “sensitive places” to go into effect January 1, despite a federal judge’s ruling that it is “repugnant to the Second Amendment.”
The law – Senate Bill 2 – had been blocked last week by an injunction from District Judge Cormac Carney, but a three-judge panel filed an order Saturday temporarily blocking that injunction, clearing the path for the law to take effect.
The court issued an administrative stay, meaning the appeals judges did not consider the merits of the case, but delayed the judge’s order to give the court more time to consider the arguments of both sides. “In granting an administrative stay, we do not intend to constrain the merits panel’s consideration of the merits of these appeals in any way,” the judges wrote.
LOL, “I’m willing to listen to reasoning, but only if you format it in a way that I’m willing to read.”
For real, though, fewer guns means fewer gun crimes. The whole ‘then only outlaws will have guns’ is really a myth. Statistics have shown over and over again that the vast majority of criminals who purchase guns do so legally. If they can’t purchase one locally, they just go a state over where the laws are lax. The whole ‘black market’ gun stores thing is just a false argument.
The idea that a ‘good guy with a gun’ will make everyone safer is also pretty well debunked. Just look at John Hurley - the ‘good guy with a gun’ who was posthumously branded a hero after he was shot by the police.
Guns are inherently unsafe. We’re never getting rid of them in military applications, but any reasonable restrictions for private ownership should be a no-brainer.
All the arguments for ‘private gun ownership makes us safer’ fall apart under any scrutiny. So does the constitutional argument. The only real, provable argument you have is that your personal freedom to own a killing machine is more important to you than public safety.
I wouldn’t argue against all of what you said, but that isn’t this law. It’s not fewer guns, or gun purchase restrictions, or legally owned guns or any of that. This is just a law that bans concealed carry at a few added places. Police can’t search a person without cause. These aren’t security restricted places places where you get checked for weapons before entering. There’s literally no hindrance to go into a park with a concealed firearm aside from “its against the law”. How will this stop the criminal sort from having or using a gun? Do you think a person robbing someone at gunpoint will be like “woah, I can’t rob them with this in the park. That’s extra illegal now”? Or that the criminal sort will stop going to a park with a gun, even though they wouldn’t be able to get caught with it if they leave it concealed and don’t do anything that would cause a cop to be allowed to detain and search them? The law passed doesn’t really do much to make these places safer.
And here’s the other argument we hear all the time. “This bill doesn’t fix everything, so it’s pointless and should be dropped.”
Drinking in a car is illegal, but how would an officer be able to tell if there are passengers drinking behind tinted windows? If the driver has booze in his or her or their yeti, how would a cop know? Since the cop can’t know, drinking in cars should be legal, even for the driver.
That’s basically what you’re arguing.
Sometimes a bill is stripped down in order to pass with conservatives or moderates. Sometimes a bill is a trial balloon for what you really want to pass. Sometimes a bill addresses a specific issue, and that it doesn’t fix some other issue is just moot.
And sometimes you have to walk before you run.