Interestingly you mention Mexico. A recent news article did a story on Mexico and reports the safest towns are in the North where citizens have taken up their legal arms (shotguns and bolt action rifles mainly) blockaded the entrances and exits to their towns and now search anyone coming or going. Guess what? The kidnappings, murders, and dumping of bodies has stopped! Completely.

Now of course the Bloombergs in the Mexican Government are concerned about ‘vigilantism” and want to bring in sworn officers to protect the towns. (The same sworn “officers” that work for the cartels and who were responsible for all the murders and violence before the militia came along and put a stop to it, no doubt)

The rest of your comment may sound good to those that agree with you, but to those of us that embrace fact and logic it is without substance. Your insult towards the NRA also defines you.

While I do not agree with everything the NRA does, they do a lot of good and do not deserve the knee jerk bashing that is so common these days. The NRA has numerous gun safety, gun awareness, and many other gun safety and training programs for adults as well as children. The NRA is very involved in many good causes, not just morally reprehensible ones and in all fairness you should recognize that fact..

Lastly; since when is supporting the 2nd amendment or gun ownership/advocacy the activity of a “Nut”?

I’m willing to bet big money that if you expanded the California law nationwide, gun violence would drop significantly over time. If that happened, of course, the NRA would set up an online store for gun purchases or sponsor bus trips to Mexico.

There will be people who choose to ignore the law and become outlaws as you suggest. The most vocal and prominent of them will be targeted first for prosecution, since they will provide a high profile example and object lesson for others. If you wish to be such an exemplar, you will end up joining some of the other former CWD posters who have crossed the line into criminality and are enjoying a lengthy stay as a guest of the government you despise.

Pleasant dreams.

Here is what I think about gun control:

The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes. The average response time of a .357 magnum is 1400 feet per second.

I’d rather have a gun in my hand than a cop on the phone.

Just another lie from the gun prohibition elitists. So called assault weapons are rarely used in violent crime because they are not concealable. The 2011 FBI crime stats show that rifles of all types account for only 2.6% of homicides, with so called assault rifles being just a fraction of that. More people are killed with knives or beaten to death every year than are killed with “assault weapons”. Handguns are the firearm of choice for violent criminals, not rifles.

Unfortunately for the gun haters SCOTUS has recognized a constitutionally protected right for non-felons to own handguns, which are very popular weapons for personal defense. So they had to find something else to demonize, hence the war on semi-auto rifles. Despite the tendentious blathering of Senator Feinstein, “assault weapons” are not particularly dangerous or unusual weapons. They are used safely and regularly for a wide range of lawful activities by millions of law abiding citizens and are therefore, according to Supreme Court precedent, protected by the 2nd Amendment. Why should the general citizenry be disarmed of a class of weapons which the police (our servants) use ubiquitously these days? If they need them, then we need them.

“We need a comprehensive approach to address the problem of gun violence in our nation,”

Violent crime, gun related or otherwise has been falling in this country for 25 years now. It fell again last year. That’s why gun prohibitionists rarely mention statistics or anything factual. They lie and deceive with emotionalism and propaganda. They prey on an ill informed public’s irrational fears.

What the oligarchs really fear isn’t violent crime. It’s an armed insurrection by the millions of people they’ve been kicking around for decades now. Though that seems improbable at the moment, history can change on a dime, just ask the Soviet Politburo or Nicolae Ceausescu.

Americans are buying semi-auto firearms, standard capacity magazines and ammunition at unprecedented rates, causing severe shortage across the country. They aren’t doing that just to surrender or register them with the local Geheime Staatspolizei. These Fascist swine can pass all the gun laws they want. We will simply exert our supreme natural and inalienable rights and ignore them. Then what will they do in the face of massive civil disobedience?

The detestable miscreants of the Senate Public Safety Committee can take their resolution and shove it in an inappropriate orifice.