Shame & Outrage of California’s Legislature in Session ~ VIDEO

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USA –  -(Ammoland.com)-  I’ve often joked with friends out here in California about the difference between our capital city of Sacramento and Las Vegas.

One is full of hustlers, whores, and lowlifes.  The other is located in Nevada.

The few gun owners who have been paying attention to the foaming lynch mob that the California legislature has become know these truths well.  The rest will find out, to their shock and disgust, in due time.

Only a handful of California gun owners know the ordeal their pro-gun rights representatives just endured on their behalf in Sacramento.  These people, motivated largely by dedication to our civil right of gun ownership, have the unenviable job of making the logical case against gun control before an openly hostile legislative body blindly dedicated to snuffing out civil rights in California.

We’ve already given you an inside look at the dirty tactics of the ruling party in California’s legislature.  In April, DRGO Social Media Editor Arthur Przebinda, MD and I appeared before the Senate Public Safety Committee to testify against SB 1006, a bill that would grab taxpayers’ money to pay for a state anti-gun advocacy research operation at the University of California.

Committee Chair Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) interrupted and stopped my testimony because I was disclosing embarrassing facts about the bill’s main benefactor, longtime anti-gun rights advocacy researcher Garen Wintemute.

But that was just the beginning of legislators’ harassment of gun owners. As SB 1006 and about ten other anti-gun rights bills moved through the legislative process, legislators pulled every dirty trick in the book—gutting and amending bills at the last minute, switching hearing dates to inconvenience and shut out opposing witnesses, and suspending rules of procedure to rush bills through committee and minimize public exposure and comment.

But the worst lawmaker misconduct went down on June 14 at the Assembly Public Safety Committee hearing. If you can stomach it, here is the entire 3 hour and 41-minute video of the hearing.  But we have taken two short excerpts showing the sickeningly disrespectful treatment meted out to our pro-civil rights representatives by Senator Isadore Hall (D-Compton) and Assemblymember Evan Low (D-San Jose).

Witness Senator Hall’s incoherent rage after representatives of the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of California, and the California Waterfowl Association had just testified against his bill to ban most modern sporting rifles, SB 880:

“Their dirty, filthy mouths [i.e., the three witnesses against the bill] that need to be washed with soap…these are vicious people that are sitting here protecting these vicious murderers…these crazy, vicious, heartless individuals that come to this dais…need to wash their mouths because they are filthy, and their attitudes demonstrate filth.”

Keep in mind, the Senator’s rant was prompted by the courteous and entirely professional testimony of these three gentlemen. You can see on the video that they were not the crazy or vicious ones in this exchange.

The tirade by Senator Straight Outta Compton, other than revealing his trashy character, was surely intended to obscure the irony that nowhere is violent crime worse than in his own South Central Los Angeles district.  And assuming that even stricter gun control would help stop it, if Hall were serious he would focus his faux outrage on handguns, the preferred tool of criminals everywhere, including the gangbangers in his own district.

But instead, he demonizes the modern rifles most favored by millions of law-abiding 21st century American gun owners for hunting, marksmanship competitions, and self-defense.  As we pointed out in a previous post, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, rifles of any kind are used in fewer than 3% of murders, and these modern rifles are an even smaller fraction of that number.

Balancing Hall’s bluster in his own passive-aggressive way was committee member Evan Low (D-San Jose).  After the above-described testimony from the three pro-gun rights representatives, Assemblymember Low called the National Rifle Association legislative liaison Dan Reid back to the witness table.  His pretense for summoning Mr. Reid was to ask a question about his testimony, a normal procedure when a committee member desires clarification on an expert matter of policy.

But Low’s real motive was to publicly excoriate the NRA rep.  Low repeatedly addressed Reid by his first name. Later in the hearing Low waxed poetic about the “rainbow flag” flying outside the capitol (at 3:02:00 in the main video), puffing up his own inclusiveness and freedom from bigotry (Low brags on his website about having been “the youngest openly LGBT mayor in the country”).  But Low clearly has a limited tolerance for supporters of the civil right of gun ownership, as you see from the undifferentiated hatred he heaps on Mr. Reid:

“It’s very difficult for me to sit here and look at you in the eyes and have respect for you, sir, Dan.  Because not only because of [sic] the lives that have been cut because of your organization—mothers and fathers—but many lives have been shattered from it.”

Low goes on to list the names of several victims of the Orlando terrorist murders, then with barely suppressed rage, continues his attack;

“Of course, the reason they were murdered was because specifically of [sic] your organization, Dan [i.e., the NRA], which has vigorously lobbied to allow for these things to occur.”

How many Californians know that their legislature is run by swaggering bullies with anger issues and open contempt for the people who elect them?

Sen. Isadore Hall is Compton’s own Bull Connor in a bow tie, wielding not a fire hose, but an unseemly sharp tongue from the podium of the Senate.  Assemblymember Evan Low is a Silicon Valley version of David Duke in Mandarin drag.  Neither is worthy to shine the shoes of the NRA’s Mr. Reid, whose dignified response proved him in every way the moral superior of these two preening scoundrels.

Gun owners and lovers of freedom in California and everywhere should heed the appalling behavior of California legislators this session.  It is a harbinger of persecution to come, especially if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.  We must not accept it, anywhere or anytime.

 

Dr. Tim Wheeler

—Timothy Wheeler, MD is director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Second Amendment Foundation.

Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Second Amendment Foundation. www.drgo.us

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Lawrence Bell

we in california have had it we will take no more.especially with this new round of b.s. they are pushing back ground checks and a license to buy ammo and if you made your own guns at home now they say you must get them numbered and registered. REALLY ONLY AN ABSOLUTE MORON WOULD GET THEIR LEGALLY MADE HOME BUILT FIREARM NUMBERED AND REGISTERED. they have gone to far and the door is about to close on these corrupt contempt for the people who they are supposed to serve dirt bags. coordinated arrests happening in the early mornings like they… Read more »

Alex Tary

Commieforniia!

Mike Murray

Lincoln never said that, it actually goes back to the 1830’s. He was, however, one of the greatest tyrants ever to enter the white house. Hardly the one I’d pick when talking about the Bill of Rights.

Produceguy

When Cali turns into Chicago will they listen to us then, no?
If it’s not working in Chicago, why would it work anywhere else?
These people were elected into their positions, the blame is on the citizens. Now they have to suck it up and pay the price.

Eric_CA

@munchie, you have to realize that it’s a transformation. Rome wasn’t built in a day and Greece, San Bernardino didn’t go bankrupt in a day.

munchie

And yet tax paying gun owners still live in CA. ??? I don’t get it. Move and take your money with you. Let CA go to the Mexicans and criminals…

Eric_CA

@Dan, NRA & CRPA life member too.

@SoCal4Truth, Good for you. Don’t know which county you reside in, but take a CCW class anyway.

These Mother F—-ers, Hancock, Hall, and Low, should be dragged out of the Capitol and taken to the nearest tree.

Dan

It is amazing that the California State assembly and Senator Hall believes gun violence will stop by a new bill. So the new bill passes and you expect criminals to obey the new bill when they are criminals- somebody’s being naive

Don Hawthorne

How did we come to this? More importantly, how do we get rid of this band of psychotics? Because that is what they truly are; delusional, mentally-unhinged narcissists, and they are _running the state_! The LA Times just ran a story saying Brown’s approval rate is a “rock solid 60%”, then quoted figures that don’t come close to that by any math I learned in school. Had I been testifying, I’d have returned Low’s familiarity in kind, and openly laughed at Hall’s tantrum. These people need to be humiliated and mocked on camera. Behaving with dignity looks like guilt on… Read more »

Sgt. Saxxon

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” -Martin Niemoller For you patriots in other states that still have access to an unfettered 2nd Amendment, read this poem and internalize it. The progressives won’t stop in California, they… Read more »

hijinx60

We in North Carolina also welcome anyone that stands for the Constitution and the Second amendment. Feel free to come and be welcomed.

robert penny

kick the commie bastards out of office

MontieR

Just so long as you leave your liberal lunacy in calipornia.

Jamie .M

thank you for your invitation, but the fight is here contrary to what other states say about California gun owners .
we will stand together and fight this out .

SoCal4Truth

As a lifelong resident of California, I am disgusted at the utter ignorance of these elected representatives. Their “ends justifies the means” approach to governing is akin to communism. I’ve not been a hunter or gun enthusiast. But now, because of the hatred these people have against us citizens, and their desire to control our lives, I am now a gun owner. Better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

John in AZ

Gun owners of Californistan, come on over to a free state like Arizona. We welcome and appreciate you.

Dan

I am one of the informed. I fully support the NRA and CRPA as multiple life members in each. I make the phone calls, send the emails, volunteer my training. I have been in California for 3 years and I can’t wait to leave. In one more year I will have that option and I will most likely take it. They are out of control here.

Clark Kent

Dark clouds are on the horizon. HiLIARy will be the next POTUS. Get ready NOW for the coming storm. It will be even worse than anyone can imagine. ‘Soap box, ballot box, cartridge box’- Abraham Lincoln.

UpChuck.Liberals

You are being FAR TOO KIND to call the roaches in SackOfTomatoes “swaggering bullies” preening peaCocks perhaps. These roaches only care how they work on their circle jerk.