San Francisco Proposes New Gun Control Measures

CBS 5 SAN FRANCISCO ^ | 16 MAY 2007 | AP

[Cementjungle]

The proposed legislation would also require people who commit crimes with guns to sign up with the police department

Are they supposed to sign up before or after they commit their crimes?

[DuncanWaring]

The proposed legislation would also require people who commit crimes with guns to sign up with the police department,...

This will save the taxpayers a lot of money.

They won't have to spend money any more on investigations, arrests or trials.

All the police have to do now is sit around, eat donuts, and wait for the criminals to come sign up.

[Disambiguator]

Even though criminals already don't follow the law, the mayor believes any gun crackdown makes the city safer.

The mayor is psychotic and unfit for office. He is suffering from delusions and cognitive dissonance.

[Osage Orange]

"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.

My GAWD..!! What if I LEGALLY POSSESS an SUV?????

Are you going to come to my home and check if I'm operating it responsibly?

Forgive me but....Kamala...you are an idiot!!

[hsalaw]

"It is fair to say that a majority of gun crime is committed with illegal guns," Harris said.

What. An. Idiot. San Francisco is living proof that Darwin was wrong.

[Stoat]

Mayor Newsom hopes to extend the ban to public housing complexes

How very compassionate of the city that shouts from every mountaintop about how compassionate it is....job one is to disarm the poor.

Take away the guns from those who need the most protection because they are the most likely to be victimized by crime, the poor and the minorities.

Hitler and Goebbels would be so very, very proud.

[timydnuc]

San Francisco is going in the dumper sooooo fast. I could care less what they do. Let them live with a gun free zone, and in the squaller that they have made for themselves. More people will die and more crime will take the "city" apart. I don't care!

You ask, "have you ever been there"? Yes, I have. I didn't find it so romantic, I didn't find it terribly exciting, nor did I find it that scenic. I found it offensive, and hard to get around!

Strong statement, yes. But, it is what I perceive...sorry.

[gondramB]

>>"It is fair to say that a majority of gun crime is committed with illegal guns," Harris said.
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What. An. Idiot. San Francisco is living proof that Darwin was wrong.<<

Well we may certainly have stalled evolution by protecting what would have been suicidal behaviors in the past.

[vlad335]

“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,”

You have got to be f**kin kidding me. A politician can actually make a statement like this in this country without fear of any repercussion from their constituents?

SF is an embarrassment! All our brave fighting men who died to protect our freedoms! The citizens of San Francisco just lay down and give it away!

[therut]

Yea a government owned book from a government owned library will put them into a panic.

[therut]

Clinton tried this under Cumo when he was over HUD. I do not think it passed the stink test. Clinton was horrible on individual rights espically for the poor black people.

[tcrlaf]

ATTENTION OAKLAND RESIDENTS:

San Fransisco will soon be a Gun-Free Disarmed Victim Zone.

Free Plasma TV Day TBA...

[epow]

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

I'm amazed that the gun prohibition in or on city owned property are not already on SF's lawbooks. Even here in relatively gun-friendly GA I can't legally carry my concealed (or unconcealed) weapon on state, county, or city property even though I have a valid CCW permit.

[Jim Robinson]

Sounds like Rudy Giuliani.

[epow]

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.

What, pray tell, would be wrong with just locking violent armed criminals up for life, or at least for very long periods of time, as was once common practice in America? A convicted serial killer on parole could report to his probation officer every day of the week and still kill people every night without the officer knowing anything about it. Taking away his right to possess guns is about as effective at keeping him disarmed as is me telling my 4 year-old grandson that he can't jump up and down on the new sofa.

[endthematrix]

""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. "

No-knock, no-knock...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

“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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I think I saw her on TV one time,,,hard to remember...

[epow]

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.

Shouldn't "authorities" also say that having your gun locked away in a lockbox is a good way to make sure that it isn't of any use as protection from criminal home invaders who usually don't call before coming over to visit?

No trigger locks or lockboxes are in use in my house. I would probably have trouble dropping off to sleep at night without my trusty S&W .38 Special lying at ready on my bedside table, and I don't even live in a big crime-ridden city like SF.

[Search4Truth]

"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.

[endthematrix]

Plenty of sweeps of HUD complexes in Chicago. Regardless of sucess of busting gang and ghetto thugs- IMO, the precidents are just to get into private homes. Here's some of the slimey Federal ways to get into a unit:

"sweeps can occur where consent has been given. That consent can take several forms. It may be consent that is given in advance as an element of a lease where people in the agreement to sign a lease for a building sign a consent that would allow searches for weapons just as they allow consent for searches -- for maintenance problems, inspections that are now a standard part of a lease. "