… and a major prick like Kevin “Ghost Gun” DeLeon and with the Perulta decision so fresh, I’d have my aides start writing legislation to bring concealed weapons permits in California under the exclusive purview of the Legislature and then make the process of getting one so complicated an onerous, people would just give up before trying.

And, of course: Upon this bill becoming a law, all permits already issued within California in any jurisdiction will only last 30 days.  After that, you must have the new permit that takes only about a year to get….if at all.

On Facebook, Mom’s Demand Action is celebrating the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision that the 2A does not protect the right of a person to carry a firearm outside the home in the Peruta v. San Diego appeal.

The Facebook post links over to this article at NBC which is complete garbage.  The article quotes the opinion of the court:

“The protection of the Second Amendment — whatever the scope of that protection may be — simply does not extend to the carrying of concealed firearms in public by members of the general public.”

What neither NBC or Mom’s note is that this is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE conclusion that the 7th Circuit came to in Moore v. Madigan which forced Illinois to adopt concealed carry.  This was also the stance taken by DC District Court Judge Richard Leon when he struck down the “good cause” requirements for DC’s CCW permit.  Even the 4th Circuit Court came to the conclusion that “good cause” requirements were burdensome to the Constitution in Woollard v. Gallagher in a challenge against Maryland’s may issue requirements.  Although the 4th Circuit upheld the requirement because gun control passed intermediate scrutiny and a substantial government interest.

The article also fails to note that the 9th Circuit is the most reversed appeals court in the nation with nearly three-fourths of its decisions being reversed or returned on review.

According to The New York Times, the 9th Circuit is so liberal that:

“Judge Carlos T. Bea, another Bush appointee, said: “The Supreme Court is still slapping it down when the Ninth Circuit drifts too far left. And not slapping down 5 to 4, slapping it down 9 to 0’s and 8 to 1’s” — suggesting that those cases show that even the more liberal wing of the Supreme Court disagrees with his colleagues’ reasoning.”

Which says to me that when the 9th Circuit makes a decision, 75% of the time, they are at least 88.8% wrong about it.

But sure, NBC and MDA are going to cry victory in support of an ultra left wing court deciding that the Constitution doesn’t protect a right the at least two other Appeals Courts and the DC district court says it does.

How very progressively statist of them.

I have never been more disappointed that SCOTUS didn’t take up Woollard when Scalia was still alive.  With the Courts of Appeals divided on the issue of the 2A and the right to carry – 4th and 7th for, 9th and DC against – SCOUTS is going to have to set the record straight.

We need a new Scalia on the court.

I don’t have a spare half a f*ck to give about who Trump is going to pick for his VP.  If he wants me to break my vow of Never Trump, he needs to release his list of SCOTUS nominees and they better be pretty damn conservative on Constitutional rights.

You guys know I don’t post eye candy in the blog, but I have to say this one deserves a spot.

And the word you are looking for is “YIELD.“

The fatal crash of a Blue Angels jet during a practice run in Tennessee prompted a San Francisco supervisor to say Friday that the Navy’s aerial stunt team should be barred from flying over the city when it performs here during Fleet Week in October.
Supervisor John Avalos said he plans to introduce a nonbinding resolution by August that would demand that the team of six F/A-18 fighter jets fly only over the bay during its practices and air shows.“It’s about them crashing and hitting a building — a place where people live,” Avalos said. “It’s about the terror that they cause in people when they strafe neighborhoods. That’s something I hear about all the time when Blue Angels fly overhead.”

Source: SF supervisor seeks to bar Blue Angels from flying over city – SFGate

strafe

I have been at more than a couple of Blue Angel shows and I do not recall any strafing. I asked around and people who have also attended do not remember any bombs dropping or cannon fire destroying ground targets.

We all agreed that it may make the show even more popular and probably it should start strafing idiots in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Hat Tip Mark T

Staten Island in New York is going forward to spend $2 Million on vasectomies for deer to try and reign in their out of control population.

Anybody want to guess just how well a catch, snip, and release program will be?  I’m pretty sure the correct answer will be “not at all.”

And they are going to spend $2 Million to do it.

“Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials have agreed that this is the fastest and most humane way to limit further growth of the Island’s potentially dangerous white-tailed population. ”

Well, it’s also the dumbest.

I have an idea for you.  Most NYC parks are open 6:00 am to 1:00 am.  How about auctioning off deer tags, good for use in Staten Island parks from 3:00 – 5:00 am, bow hunting only.  You can even limit the bow draw weight to 50 lbs or so to limit the effective range of the arrows to about 50 yards.  I bet NYC could easily take in $2 Million in tag fees on this.  The meat could even be donated to local homeless shelters.

But I have a feeling that would just be too effective.  Better to waste money on a worthless program in de Blasio’s city.

I can see this happening. Gore is still pissed he did not win back in 2K . He promises Hillary she will be pardoned if she quits and he becomes President by hook and most definitely by crook.

There are nearly twice as many guns in the average gun-owning household today as there were 20 years ago, according to new Wonkblog estimates based data from surveys and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In 2013, there were an estimated 8.1 firearms in the typical gun-owning household, according to these data. In 1994, the average gun-owning household owned 4.2 guns.
These numbers comport with what survey research has shown for several years now: the share of gun-owning households has been declining over the past 20 years and possibly more, according to numbers from Gallup and the General Social Survey. On the other hand, domestic firearm production and imports of firearms have risen sharply, particularly in recent years. If those numbers are correct, it follows that increasing gun purchases are being driven primarily by existing owners stocking up rather than first-time buyers.

Source: Average gun owner now owns 8 guns, twice what it used to be | Miami Herald

I just love the way they try so hard to make it look like Gun Owners are an unimportant minority trying to shove guns everywhere to anybody. Does anybody has ever responded to an ATF poll asking how many guns do you own? Hell, has anybody even heard of that ever happening?

And when we are asked, we don’t have guns anymore, they were all lost in a tragic (insert tragedy here) accident alongside all the ammo.  So, event the author admits his calculations are basically a wild-ass guess.

But even Gallup’s numbers show a decline in gun ownership since the early 1990s, from 54 percent of households in late 1993 to 43 percent as of this fall. And regardless of whether overall ownership rates are flat or falling, one thing that’s largely been overlooked is how more guns and fewer gun owners means that firearms are being concentrated in fewer hands than ever before.

According to the Census Bureau, there are 133,957,180  households in the US and assigning one gun owner per household, at 43% it gives us a total of 57,601,587 gun owners or 17.9% of the population.  African-Americans are 13%, Hispanics are 17.4 and LGBT-ETC do not reach 5%. So I guess those minorities are unimportant too.

I wonder if Presumed Candidate Hillary will have the balls (Bill’s obviously) to tell the NAACP that they represent an unimportant minority.