{"id":65499,"date":"2021-03-05T21:47:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65499"},"modified":"2021-03-05T21:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:47:31","slug":"65499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65499","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The California Model: Soft On Violent Firearm Crimes, Hard On Law-Abiding Gun Owners<\/a><\/p>\n

A frustrating aspect of the modern gun control movement is its seeming abandonment of reason. The same anti-gun politicians that attack the rights of law-abiding gun owners will advocate for more lenient treatment of those who misuse firearms to commit violent crime.<\/p>\n

Consider\u00a0California\u2019s Assembly Bill 1509<\/a>, which would alter the state\u2019s scheme of sentence enhancements for serious crimes committed with firearms. The legislative counsel\u2019s digest summarized the changes as follows:
\nExisting law imposes a sentence enhancement in the state prison of 10 years for personally using a firearm in the commission of specified felonies, 20 years for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm in the commission of those felonies, and 25 years to life for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm and causing great bodily injury or death to any other person during the commission of those felonies.<\/em><\/p>\n

This bill would reduce those enhancements to 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Existing law imposes a sentence enhancement of 5, 6, or 10 years in the state prison for, with intent to inflict great bodily injury or death, discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle in the commission of a felony and inflicting great bodily injury or death in the commission of a felony.<\/em><\/p>\n

This bill would reduce that enhancement to 1, 2, or 3 years in the state prison.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

AB1509 was authored by Assembly member Alex Lee (D-25). The bill was coauthored by Assembly members Wendy Carrillo (D-51), Ash Kalra (D-27), Mark Stone (D-29), and Senator Scott Wiener (D-11).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assemblywoman Carrillo has been a vocal proponent of further restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. On May 17, 2018,\u00a0Carrillo spoke at a gun control rally<\/a>\u00a0in Sacramento, put on, in part, by the\u00a0Brady Campaign<\/a>. The lawmaker took to Twitter on February 5, 2019\u00a0to boast<\/a>\u00a0of meeting Gabrielle Giffords of the eponymous Giffords gun control organization, adding, \u201cCalifornia has enacted strict gun laws that can lead the way to a national conversation. We need action. #GunReformNow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, Assemblymember Kalra has pushed for gun control. As a San Jose City councilmember, Kalra\u00a0proposed an ordinance<\/a> that would have required gun owners to comply with onerous storage requirements, ammunition sellers to register transactions, and re-victimized gun owners whose firearms were stolen by requiring them to report the theft within 48 hours.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Senator Wiener\u00a0advanced legislation<\/a>\u00a0to permanently ban gun shows at Daly City, Calif.\u2019s Cow Palace. On August 31, 2019, the\u00a0state senator took to Twitter<\/a>\u00a0to advocate for gun confiscation and other extreme gun controls, stating,<\/p>\n

No more talk on guns<\/em><\/p>\n

Action only<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The California Model: Soft On Violent Firearm Crimes, Hard On Law-Abiding Gun Owners A frustrating aspect of the modern gun control movement is its seeming abandonment of reason. The same anti-gun politicians that attack the rights of law-abiding gun owners will advocate for more lenient treatment of those who misuse firearms to commit violent crime. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65500,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65499\/revisions\/65500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}