Sheriff Lee Baca and the Gun-Gift Connection

If any person to be allowed, with any excuse, to ignore an important principle of the constitution, then the constitution means what?

I don't know why everyone doesn't believe them, there's no favoritism here. Just like they didn't know the incendiary tear gas canister would catch a building on fire. I guess the word incendiary wasn't a clue.

And these are the people they want armed.

LA the Third World. If you wanna slide you godda grease. And like the third world "LE" can gun you down in the street no questions asked.

I used to live in a city where the sheriff simply would not even consider issuing a permit to anyone, no way, no how. However, I insisted on filling out the form. It was denied, of course, but I never let that stop me from carrying. I was in a business in which one of my colleagues was murdered execution style, one was beaten and robbed, and another was run off the road. Fortunately for the last one, he had a gun in his car which he is convinced saved his life. I just figured if I were ever arrested for carrying a concealed weapon (which  was highly unlikely, because I always kept it well concealed) I would take it to a jury and say, "I did everything in my power to comply with the law. Why should I be punished because the sheriff was derelict in his duty to follow the law and issue a permit? I'm lucky that I never had to use that defense. I still wonder, though, if it would have worked.

California really is the Liberal utopia that every good Leftist dreams of, strict control over the people, taxes and laws like crazy, and the "right" people making all the controlling decisions.  

I'm not a huge weekly fan, but this is pretty darn good reporting. There is no doubt corruption with the CCW system in CA. No one person should have discretion over who does / does not get a permit. If you aren't a criminal and you jump through the documented hoops, you get one! Period! Constitutional law 101: equal application. Baca is a turd. Vote him out.

Editorial note: Level III reserves are allowed to carry sidearms and arrest people by CA POST standards, although this may be against Baca's departmental policy.

Good reporting; thanks. This can probably help some other people get their permit. After the equal protection lawsuits.... 

Articles like this make clear the REAL purpose of gun control, and it's not about public safety.  Gun control is about keeping the nobility safe from the serfs...

...its good to be the King.

We have the same issue here in Santa Clara county.  Laurie Smith issues to campaign contributors and her husbands business partners.

You get the government you deserve. Want a better one?

Re-elect no one. 

Ever.

Seems to me if all of us who would like a permit would donate the maximum to Lee Baca's opponent, we might get the crony-ist unelected. Then the rest of us little people could maybe have a shot at a CCW. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd like a chance at being able to protect myself BEFORE I have a tragic story to tell.

Googling 4 random names from this list, 3 of them are Los Angeles County judges.

What are the ethical issues of a judge accepting a VERY exclusive perk, a nearly unobtainable permit, from the head of an organization that routinely is involved in matters before the court?????

This appears to be CORRUPT.

One of these days the Bastard Baca will *finally* self-implode. Just wish it were sooner than later.

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