Posted on 05/16/2007 7:41:35 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO -- On Wednesday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a new round of gun control measures. The announcement comes nearly one year after a judge struck down a law banning handgun possession in San Francisco.
"In the last 24 months, just to give you perspective, we've taken more guns off the street than we have in the last decade," Newsom said.
A total of 2,262 guns since the crackdown began.
One part of the measure bans guns from any city owned property, not only in buildings like city hall, but also city parks.
Guns are already banned at some city buildings, such as schools.
Mayor Newsom hopes to extend the ban to public housing complexes, but federal laws make that complicated.
The proposed legislation would also require people who commit crimes with guns to sign up with the police department, then probation officers could keep better tabs on them.
Another aspect would require all gun owners to store their arms with a trigger lock or in a lock box. Authorities say lock boxes would help to keep legal guns from being stolen and then later used illegally.
The idea is to remind legal gun owners how to behave.
"Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way that you conduct your affairs," District Attorney Kamala Harris said.
San Francisco's only gun shop is also a target. The proposed legislation would require it and any future gun shop to send the authorities a gun sales list every six months.
Even though criminals already don't follow the law, the mayor believes any gun crackdown makes the city safer.
"It is fair to say that a majority of gun crime is committed with illegal guns," Harris said.
Tell San Francisco to pound sand.
I’ve about had it with the morons that live there at OUR Expense!
San Francisco owns its city streets too. So they can just ban guns on city streets. Even in the trunk of a car, even with a trigger lock. That way, while it would be legal to own a gun, it would be legally impossible to acquire a gun and get it into a home.
A happy result all around. The city gets its gun-free zone, the criminals get a safe pass into anybody’s home they want into, and the need for gun control goes up because statistics now show that all gun use turns out to be illegal.
Let all the whackjobs congregate there. Who the h3ll cares if hippies get mugged or.....?
The perverted communists of Nancy Pelosi’s model socialist society, are at it again. The very idea of people having individual rights in the communist community of San Freakcisco is beyond the pale. Let us hope these pinko totalitarians get slapped down again.
Try this on for size bitch:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Sounds like someone who is dying to walk into a bullet from a homeowner defending the sanctity of their locked home.
Unintended irony is lost on neo-Marxists. They have no more regard for the 4th Ammendment than the 2nd. Unless of course the Bush adminstration wants to find out what books terrorist have checked out of a public library.
Wow. Sig Heil Commandant Harris.
‘”Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way that you conduct your affairs,” District Attorney Kamala Harris said.’
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The DA is saying that they are going to walk into a locked home to see if people are compliant?
I can see so many problems with this...
Tell me again why these people shouldn't be labeled "Nazis"?
in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk in
And some people wonder why we still support the 2nd amendment.
she sounds very proud of herself. I wouldn't live in a place like this for anything. I'm looking forward to the day I escape from this crappy state all together. I'm down to 6 months a year and even that is too much to take.
No, she will send the police who she despises into the gunowner’s home. But when some gangbanger deliblerly kills a cop she won’t seek the death penalty because she finds it immoral.
“The idea is to remind legal gun owners how to behave.”
Yeah, that’s why they’re called legal gun owners, because they don’t know how to behave.
The criminals are going to have a field day robbing all those businesses that have no guns for defense.
Too bad the residents of SFO don't have it to remind their elected officials how to behave. The fact that they would submit to such practice is embarrassing for me even to observe.
>>The announcement comes nearly one year after a judge struck down a law banning handgun possession in San Francisco.<<
What?! There is a judge with sanity on guns in Cali?
Maybe there is hope for humanity.
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