AB 2888: losing more gun rights in California by “allegation”

And without due process.

This is eligible for a vote in the California Senate.

Assembly Bill 2888, sponsored by Assembly Member Phillip Ting (D-19), would expand the list of those eligible to file gun violence restraining orders (called a GVRO) beyond the currently authorized reporters — which typically include immediate family and law enforcement.  The new list is expanded to employers, coworkers and employees of a secondary or postsecondary school that the person has attended in the last 6 months. GVRO’s can remove a person’s rights without due process and not because of a criminal conviction or mental adjudication, but based on third party allegations.

Read that again:

GVRO’s can remove a person’s rights without due process and not because of a criminal conviction or mental adjudication, but based on third party allegations. 

Allegations.

Verbiage from the bill itself:

AB 2888, as amended, Ting. Gun violence restraining orders.
Existing law authorizes a court to issue an ex parte gun violence restraining order prohibiting the subject of the petition from having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, a firearm or ammunition when it is shown that there is a substantial likelihood that the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of harm to himself, herself, or another in the near future by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm, and that the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to himself, herself, or another, as specified. Existing law requires the ex parte order to expire no later than 21 days after the date on the order. Existing law also authorizes a court to issue a gun violence restraining order prohibiting the subject of the petition from having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, a firearm or ammunition for a period of one year when there is clear and convincing evidence that the subject of the petition, or a person subject to an ex parte gun violence restraining order, as applicable, poses a significant danger of personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm, and that the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to himself, herself, or another, as specified. Existing law authorizes renewal of a gun violence restraining order within 3 months of the order’s expiration. Petitions for ex parte, one-year, and renewed gun violence restraining orders may be made by an immediate family member of the person or by a law enforcement officer.
This bill would similarly authorize, but not require, an employer, a coworker, a mental health worker who has seen the person as a patient in the last 6 months, or an employee of a secondary or postsecondary school that the person has attended in the last 6 months to file a petition for an ex parte, one-year, or renewed gun violence restraining order.

“One year or renewed gun violence restraining order.”

Let’s now do what BZ calls the Logical Extension.

Have you ever heard of “SWATTING”?

It’s a situation wherein people place a prank call to local 911 numbers in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a specific address — a real address — due to the severe described nature of the call. Sometimes even SWAT units themselves are sent. How are they to know until after their arrival and the situation is assessed?

Fast forward to the potential passage of AB 2888. Imagine Leftists. Imagine Leftists know that _______ is a Conservative and may possess firearms because, perhaps, he or she has talked about hunting or target shooting at work.

Imagine that someone in the above categories — a co-worker perhaps — decides to inject their SJW or Progressive or Antifa or Socialist or Leftist beliefs into that person’s life by making allegations. You’ll notice there are no consequences or actions delineated in the bill for those doing so. Law enforcement departments and District Attorney offices in California already wantonly fail to prosecute allegations of numerous crimes later proven to be false. Public Defenders call that a “chilling effect” in California. Gosh. Can’t have people dissuaded from making false allegations of rape, other crimes or “weapons violations” in California, can we?

Imagine said Leftist placed a call alleging X, Y or Z about their Conservative co-worker.

And how are these orders frequently acquired? No, not in court. But over a telephonic device to judges on standby for such “exigent” calls. They are authorized verbally by the judge via a set of circumstances described over said telephonic device, customarily by peace officers who have been contacted and assigned the event.

The order is valid “no later than 21 days” — up to a period of one year.

Jackson Browne: “don’t think it won’t happen just because it hasn’t happened yet.”

California, Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots are coming for your firearms. Make no mistake whatsoever.

And they couldn’t care less what rights are trampled or who gets in their way.

BZ

 

Dead Leftists can’t even put down their cell phones

Figure 1: Dead Leftists texting. Perhaps this illustrates how the dead also manage to continuously vote for Leftists.

This is rather amusing and, if nothing else, entertaining — until you realize that all of these Leftist/Progressive simps are actually serious. And until you realize something I’ll show you in a moment.

But when I saw them in the midst of their protests — hammering away on social media whilst “dead” on the floor — I actually barked out a larf and was incredibly glad I wasn’t in the midst of quaffing a carbonated beverage because, knowing me, it would have been ejected at great force through my nose.

First, from DailyWire.com:

WATCH: Far-Left Parkland Activists Scream On Grocery Store Floor, Demand Boycott

by Ryan Saavedra

Parkland gun control activists threw themselves on the floor of a Florida grocery store on Friday, screaming and yelling for customers to boycott the store because of political donations that it had made.

The “die-in” was organized by far-left activist and provocateur David Hogg, who has launched multiple boycotts aimed at those who support the NRA or who criticize him.

Then there was the standard Mark 1, Model 1 Capitulation by corporate America.

This can be a proverbial double-edged sword. Leftists may stop shopping at Publix. But Second Amendment and NRA supporters will — you guessed it — also stop shopping at Publix.

The political scene is cutthroat. It is already bloody. It is about to get bloodier.

BZ

 

A “Sanctuary County” for firearms?

In a word: yes.

California decided it would be a Sanctuary State for illegal Mexicans, et al. Make no mitsake: mostly Mexicans. Kate Steinle can, of course, go straight to hell as evidenced by the San Francisco Superior Court’s 2017 verdict in her murderer’s case.

That said, a number of California (I call it Fornicalia because it screws up most everything it comes in touch with) cities and counties are beginning to push back against the State Sanctuary concept and are themselves joining in suits or policies disavowing same. From CityLab.com:

As California Protects Immigrants, Cities Revolt

by Sarah Holder

The Department of Justice is already suing California over its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Now, some small California cities are mounting an attack from within.

The federal government’s attack on California’s “sanctuary state” laws is growing angry, grassroots heads.

After California moved to prevent state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials in October, Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Xavier Bacerra were met with swift retaliation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who sued them and the state, alleging that three of the state’s new laws (including Senate Bill 54) overstepped their rights as a state and violated the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. (It’s the same argument the Department of Justice makes in another suit it filed against California this week, over jurisdiction in sales of federal land.) But while California officials await their days in court, a new resistance is being mounted from within.

In March, the small city of Los Alamitos was the first to announce that they would put their commitment to federal law over state regulations, drafting an ordinance that would let them opt out of state-level sanctuary laws. Emboldened, other cities in Orange and San Diego Counties are drafting exemption ordinances of their own. They’re the conservative mirror to the wave of liberal sanctuary citieslike West Palm Beach, Fla., and Dallas County, Tex., that have pushed back against their conservative home state’s strict immigration enforcement.

Businesses in Fornicalia didn’t know whom to obey, conflicted between state and federal laws. They should never have been put into that position.

It was and is the State of California deciding which laws to obey and which to ignore. California simply declared itself a Sanctuary State.

On the heels of that decision comes a county in Illinois, making a declaration almost as monumental and equally abhorrent in the eyes of Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots everywhere. First, from the DailyCaller.com:

County Declares Sanctuary Status For Second Amendment Supporters, OUTRAGE Ensues

by Stephanie Hamill

An Illinois county recently declared sanctuary status — for gun owners. This is brilliant!

The Effingham County (Illinois) Board passed a resolution this week protecting their county from any laws from the state’s capital that might abridge the Second Amendment.

The ChicagoTribune.com weighed in on the matter:

A ‘sanctuary county’ in Illinois for paranoid gun owners? I’ll help you move!

by Rex Huppke

Great news! A south-central Illinois county is now a self-declared sanctuary for gun owners.

That’s right, officials in Effingham County — my favorite Illinois county that ends in “ham” — have decided they won’t accept any state laws that “unconstitutionally restrict the Second Amendment.” Granted, there are no state laws that do that, but such trivial matters were of no concern to the gun-positive County Board members who passed the resolution Monday on an 8-1 vote.

According to the Effingham Daily News, one resident spoke in support of the resolution and “argued that far more people die from tobacco and alcohol use than are killed by people who legally own guns.”

“We, as a society, need to stop thinking about things that don’t matter,” the man said.

52 dead, 527 injured

If Stephen Craig Paddock wanted to make a name for himself, he certainly accomplished that goal. He is now America’s most deadly mass murderer, topping the Muslim shooter at an Orlando gay nightclub in 2016 who killed 49 persons and wounded 58 in the name of Allah.

Killing 52 people and at last count having injured at least 527, Paddock himself is an enigma. A tempest that no one yet appeared to see brewing. He cannot be consulted because he killed himself just prior to police breaching the suite. The coward’s way out. Emphasizing that there is no defense against a firearm save that of others with firearms.

Paddock decided to, late Sunday night around 10 PM (October 1st), break out two windows in his large 32nd floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and fire hundreds of rounds at 22,000 attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Country Music festival below. The shooting went on for about 10 minutes.

He had 23 firearms in his room and 19 more at his home. He checked into the Mandalay Bay on Thursday, September 28th, with more than ten suitcases. He had three days for planning in the suite itself. He clearly planned to target that specific concert from the Mandalay as it had the advantage of superior elevation and the least occluded field of fire, while offering a distance that would be initially confusing. People would expect the Luxor to be the obvious sniper’s perch that night. It wasn’t. Paddock instead chose an expansive corner suite at the Mandalay Bay.

They were easy targets as Paddock utilized some of the classic “positions of advantage” in military combat and special forces tactics, that of elevation, speed, surprise and violence of action. The distance involved was roughly 400 to 500 yards.

Military concepts utilized by a man who was never military-trained.

Theories are wide ranging.

Is this guy even remotely correct? Keep reading.

Paddock had no military record. He had no criminal arrest record save that of a traffic ticket. He was not a member of a militia, hate group or most any other group. His social media was negligible. The 64-year old Paddock was a resident of Mesquite, Nevada and lived in a quiet retirement community. He was a gambler and would take junkets to Las Vegas. He won big and he lost big. He was a multi-millionaire who had property and profited from real estate and investments. He did not have close ties to his family. He was twice-divorced. His live-in girlfriend was not home when the event occurred. He had no mental illness history. He was a retiree. A former aerospace industry worker. A former accountant.

“He was just a guy,” Eric Paddock said of his brother. “He lives in Mesquite, he went to the hotels, he gambled, he went to shows.”

Also, from former FBI hostage negotiator and BSU (Behavioral Science Unit) unit supervisor Cliff Van Zandt.

“My challenge is, I don’t see any of the classic indicators, so far, that would suggest, ‘OK, he’s on the road either to suicide or homicide or both.”

One odd note.

While Stephen Paddock appeared to have no criminal history, his father was a notorious bank robber, Eric Paddock said. Benjamin Hoskins Paddock tried to run down an FBI agent with his car in Las Vegas in 1960 and wound up on the agency’s most wanted list after escaping from a federal prison in Texas in 1968, when Stephen Paddock was a teen.

The oldest of four children, Paddock was 7 when his father was arrested for the robberies.

We know what the initial responses were and will be from the Demorats and Leftists. “It’s all about the guns” they will bleat, using politics even before the bodies began to cool in the streets of Las Vegas. So typical. Hillary Clinton Tweeted “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get,” and “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.”

Let’s not forget the above. Politics as bodies cooled.

And the expected, from the New Republic. At least they had the guts to write it.

It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.

by Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those. Don’t sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known—as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal guns. All of them.  

That’s rather succinct. More laws. More bans. Targeted at whom? Oh, right. Law abiding Americans who aren’t involved in actions like this. More laws would not have “prevented” this shooting as Leftists bleat.

And trust me, make absolutely no mistake, gun confiscation and removal is precisely what Leftists and Demorats want as their end goal. Have no doubt of that.

Another high-powered Leftist thinker.

Yet, Stephen Paddock is mostly a cypher as of this writing.

Let’s note this, however.

Why do I get the feeling there is much, much more to this story?

BZ

BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Thursday, September 7th, 2017

Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, thanks to my shameless contract, as well as appear on the Sack Heads Radio Show each Wednesday evening.

Tonight in the Saloon:

  • Jersey Joe is in our thoughts and prayers as Hurricane Irma bears down upon him in Florida, and may possibly be in its direct path;
  • How do you evacuate a state whose only escape route is north, on I-75?
  • There is no portion of the US that isn’t directly affected by natural disasters;
  • Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and wildfires;
  • Happy stories and good times: 5 nurses suspended for three weeks for opening a body bag to check out his generous genitals;
  • Happy stories and good times: Taco Bell employees shoot and kill robber;
  • The funeral for 21-year veteran Sacramento Sheriff’s Department Deputy Bob French was Thursday, shot and killed by a vehicle theft ring suspect;
  • At the same hour of the funeral, two Sacramento Police Department officers were shot by a murder suspect who was subsequently killed;
  • The suspect was sophisticated and took advantage of the situation in order to tactically ambush the officers who had not yet attempted to effect a vehicle stop;
  • Ambushes on peace officers are up 167%;
  • California Governor Jerry Brown has peace officer blood on his hands as do other Demorat politicians due to their Leftist policies thanks to AB 109, realignment, and Propositions 47 and 57;
  • Support the Houston PD if you can, at http://www.assisttheofficer.com/
  • A former federal officer is found dead in the Potomac, once a member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s protectorate detail;
  • Details about the US’s most deadly nuclear weapon, the B61-12;
  • Gun confiscation on the US Virgin Islands;
  • Charlottesville PD sued, as should all the other Leftist departments;
  • To law enforcement: honor your oaths, eschew illegal orders;
  • Make a stand. Do your damned jobs. I did. You should and must.

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