INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS. 

Chicago has arguably the most and the strictest anti-gun laws of any city in the country and it also has the highest murder rate with guns. 

If you sincerely support this legislation, you must believe that Chicago’s murder problem would go away if it just passed enough gun control laws based on the illogic that criminals count the number of laws they intend to break before they commit a crime.  With that logic they should just pass tens of thousands of laws and then all crime would stop, not just murder.

Criminals by definition break the laws, many of them.  PASSING MORE GUN LAWS WILL NEVER STOP CRIMINALS.  But they do hinder the right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms and to defend themselves.  If you are serious about reducing violent crime you should be passing laws that make it easier, not harder for law-abiding people to protect themselves with guns. 

Twelve studies, including one by the US Dept. of Justice, found that guns are used to deter or stop crime between 1-2 million times per year in the United States, including prevention of rape. 

Several of the laws being proposed this year also violate the due process clause of the constitution, by allowing police to act as prosecutor, judge, jury and enforcer on an arbitrary basis.  IT INVERTS the concept of INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY into GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.  Is this still America?

The opinions of 15,000 peace officers across the country from departments of all sizes supports the conclusion that more gun laws don’t deter crime but do interfere with citizen’s ability to defend themselves.  Survey results include:

• More than 91 percent stated that the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime should have stiff, mandatory sentences, and no plea-bargains. 
• More than 91 percent stated they supported the Right-to-Carry by law abiding Americans. 
• 80 percent believe legally armed citizens can reduce casualties in incidents of mass violence. 
• Nearly 80 percent said that a ban on private transfers of firearms between law-abiding citizens would not reduce violent crime. 
• More than 76 percent indicated that legally armed citizens are important to reducing crime. 
• More than 70 percent opposed the idea of a national registry of legal gun sales. 

Representatives should be standing in opposition to all new laws that hinder citizens in their right to have and bear arms and protect themselves and their families with them, and promote laws that make it easier to do so if they really care about the safety of law abiding California citizens.