TheBluesMan
Moderator Emeritus
DC is going to have a s*it fit over this!
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Los Angeles Bans Gun Sales On County Property
Updated 8:51 PM ET August 24, 1999
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two weeks after an alleged white supremacist shooting spree left five people wounded and one man dead, Los Angeles County voted Tuesday to put the "world's largest gun show" out of business.
By 3 to 2, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to ban gun and ammunition sales on county property -- meaning that the heavily attended Great Western Gun Show will not be able to take place at the
fairgrounds in Pomona, as it has for the past 30 years.
Great Western President Karl Amelang told the supervisors before they voted that a ban would kill the show, which is reportedly the world's largest and pumps about $9 million a year into the local economy.
Amelang said Great Western would take legal action against the board and accused it of aiming at the wrong target.
"Instead of addressing the underlying causes for the unfortunate assaults by twisted minds on innocent victims, this motion is a thinly veiled attempt to destroy the constitutional rights of a legal entity," he said.
But County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who sponsored the measure, said: "Gun violence has ravaged this country. Illegal automatic and semiautomatic weapons have ravaged the schools, day-care centers, day camps, and other public institutions and religious institutions all over the United States."
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Eventually, California is going to supply the rest of the country with a legal precedent from the Supreme Court that will decide once and for all the validity of the 2nd in regard to personal freedom. And it is knee-jerk legislation like this that will put it in front of the judge.
What about the ignorance of this Yaroslavsky person saying, "Illegal automatic and semiautomatic weapons have ravaged the schools, day-care centers, day camps..." What, the illegal weapons ravaged these places by themselves?
This kinda stuff is really starting to P!$$ me off. How long before this crap gets to Ohio and affects me and mine?
Trying to calm down now...
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"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." - Ramsay Clark
"Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them." - Sarah Josepha Hale
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Los Angeles Bans Gun Sales On County Property
Updated 8:51 PM ET August 24, 1999
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two weeks after an alleged white supremacist shooting spree left five people wounded and one man dead, Los Angeles County voted Tuesday to put the "world's largest gun show" out of business.
By 3 to 2, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to ban gun and ammunition sales on county property -- meaning that the heavily attended Great Western Gun Show will not be able to take place at the
fairgrounds in Pomona, as it has for the past 30 years.
Great Western President Karl Amelang told the supervisors before they voted that a ban would kill the show, which is reportedly the world's largest and pumps about $9 million a year into the local economy.
Amelang said Great Western would take legal action against the board and accused it of aiming at the wrong target.
"Instead of addressing the underlying causes for the unfortunate assaults by twisted minds on innocent victims, this motion is a thinly veiled attempt to destroy the constitutional rights of a legal entity," he said.
But County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who sponsored the measure, said: "Gun violence has ravaged this country. Illegal automatic and semiautomatic weapons have ravaged the schools, day-care centers, day camps, and other public institutions and religious institutions all over the United States."
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Eventually, California is going to supply the rest of the country with a legal precedent from the Supreme Court that will decide once and for all the validity of the 2nd in regard to personal freedom. And it is knee-jerk legislation like this that will put it in front of the judge.
What about the ignorance of this Yaroslavsky person saying, "Illegal automatic and semiautomatic weapons have ravaged the schools, day-care centers, day camps..." What, the illegal weapons ravaged these places by themselves?
This kinda stuff is really starting to P!$$ me off. How long before this crap gets to Ohio and affects me and mine?
Trying to calm down now...
...
..
.
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"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." - Ramsay Clark
"Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them." - Sarah Josepha Hale