Friday, March 14, 2014

Kamala Harris and Open Carry vs Concealed Carry in California

At the outset, I want to express my admiration for Kamala Harris.  I do not believe that California has ever had a more qualified Attorney General.  She is the antithesis of some of the two-balled bitches that preceded her such as Dan Lundgren.  Although most black attorneys in law enforcement positions are Toms, I believe her Tom Factor is rather low.  I do not want to discuss my reasons in detail because they exceed the scope of this article.  I think that despite being the top law enforcement employee in the State, I would actually want to buy her an ice cream or something and have a friendly but brief chat with her.

Many of the Deputy District Attorneys that work for Los Angeles County are among the most unethical individuals that I have ever encountered.  I am not making blanket statements because some DDA's are fine, dedicated individuals.   Most are not.  Especially the African Americans.  They are among the most incompetent, self hating and bitter attorneys that have ever been admitted to the bar.  Shame on them for contributing to the demise of their own race by participating in drug crime prosecutions. Harris checks out in my opinion.  She is not a Barak Obama or Susan Rice-like insecure, affirmative action pinhead standing with her dick in her hand while the adults in the room laugh at her out loud.  If I were standing in her shoes, I would visit more criminal court rooms and talk to defendants, judges and all the other parties and court personnel.  I would travel from Del Norte to Imperial, but spend the bulk of my visits to counties where they should stop giving people the shaft and start a medical approach to treating substance abusers and people that repeatedly get busted for theft crimes to support their habits.

But anyway, I am way off course.  This post is supposed to be an appeal to legalize open carry in California in consideration of the recent San Diego case and Harris' decision to appeal it.  First of all, we are all adults here.  Some of us have been employed in some aspect of the criminal justice system or one of its many tentacles, so we can just call a spade a spade for god fucking sakes.  Take gun crime, for instance: Plenty of registered gun owners use their firearms in crimes of passion, violence, and stupidity.  However, there is no way that anyone can dispute that nearly all gun crimes are committed by individuals that could not give a flying fuck about any gun laws, including gun control.  The only thing that criminals in California have to do with gun laws is breaking them.  Of course a felon cannot lawfully possess a firearm.  That sure does not seem to stop them.  Many felons conceal carry or carry in their cars.  The idea of obtaining a license and waiting 15 days would be absurd to them.  They get their weapons through straw buyers, theft of lawfully purchased guns, and the saturated black market in Los Angeles.

In the 19th Century, open carry was common in cities like Boston.  A robber would have to carefully consider whether or not it was worth it to steal someone's wallet.  Or to enter a business and restrain the owner while a theft crime was taking place.  If men wore a pistol, you would of course have some fools who would be talking a lot of shit, but when the shit hits the fan, a real fighter is going to take that gun away from the guy and stick it up his ass.Then you will have your George Zimmerman sociopath bullies and people who mentally torment others and would use legal open carry to terrorize their opponents.  So many bugs would have to be worked out.  Obligatory biometric safeties would eliminate many of these problems. Open carry seems to work pretty well in rural counties, and it is virtually shall issue in many places.   Trinity County, with a population of around 12k people has less problems and less violence than LA so it is like apples and oranges.
I am sure it could eventually be successful.  There would have to be stiff penalties for carrying while under the influence of alcohol, that is for sure, but I am optimistic that open carry is a better option than concealed carry in the Golden State.

Open carry became illegal in the late 1960's because of intense fear of the Black Panthers being able to possess loaded rifles in Sacramento within firing distance of Governor Reagan.  It did not present a great deal of problems prior to that.  Open carry was not traditionally a threat to public safety since California became a state.

Of course most criminals conceal carry illegal handguns.  There would be no scientific way to predict how many crimes could be prevented by open carry, but I have no doubt that it would be a lot.  People in the 19th Century were not victims of armed robbery with the same frequency that they are in this day and age.  I can see the potential for an answer to the average wait time for the police of sometimes as long as an hour, open carry could solve a lot of problems and crimes.  The primary goal of regulating and requiring coursework and annual testing would certainly reduce the number of individuals that may attempt to act like Charles Bronson.

The current laws enable your law abiding citizen to ride with a pistol grip equipped shotgun anywhere inyour vehicle provided that it is unloaded.  You can carry a box of buckshot next to the gun and a couple of shells in your pocket legally.  With practice, the gun can be loaded and ready for action in a few seconds anyway.  It is tantamount to open carry in your vehicle.  It would be easier to shoot if it were already loaded, but effective nonetheless.  We do have the right to bear arms.

I would like to carry around a medium framed pistol and a couple of extra magazines.  The 10 shot capacity limit here in California is fine by me.  Three magazines is 30 rounds and more than enough for almost any situation.  Most of us without a psych history, a history of child abuse, and no felony convictions should be allowed to open carry our pistols.  I do not see it as an imminent threat to the safety of Californians and is far less expensive and problematic than issuing thousands of conceal carry permits in our State.

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