When does the right to keep and bear arms not give a person the right to keep and bear arms? When you live in Orange County California. The new sheriff of Orange County California has decided that she wants to revoke many of the concealed carry permits issued under the previous sheriff. Not because any of these people committed a crime, (on the contrary, some of these people theoretically may have prevented a crime because they chose to carry), but because she just doesn’t believe in the second amendment.

 she is now encountering blowback from Orange County’s permit holders, including the 442 who have been sent letters saying that they have to justify keeping the permit they were issued by the previous sheriff

 She wants them to justify why they should be able to keep their concealed carry permits but the justification is pretty evident if you just read this document. That document provides all the justification anybody needs to carry a concealed weapon. From that document:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

 SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! That sums it up well. That is the only justification that these people need. Yet not only is she willing to infringe upon this right, she is going after law abiding citizens who have done nothing wrong other than exercising their second amendment rights.

 She is also making it harder for her constituents to gain a concealed carry permit.

Hutchens’ new policy requires that to get a concealed firearm permit, applicants must prove there is a legitimate threat to their safety and agree to undergo possible psychological, polygraph, or medical testing.

 By the time a person proves that there could be a threat to his safety he could wind up dead, having been unable to defend himself. In my humble opinion the county would be better served if the new sheriff decided to leave law abiding citizens who have made the decision to protect themselves by exercising their second amendment rights alone and instead focused on the criminals and illegal aliens who are breaking the law and threatening the security of those same law abiding citizens.

 But that is just my opinion, a radical Republican who still believes that the second amendment applies to the people and that law breaking criminals are the ones who should be targeted and brought to justice. We shouldn’t coddle them and we shouldn’t try to “understand” them, we should punish them. I know how crazy that sounds, but I guess I am just an old fashioned guy.

~mpinkeyes

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