Posted on 12/16/2015 11:14:04 AM PST by SZonian
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to consider new ways of preventing violence in the community and workplace, including potential gun buyback programs and stricter controls on rapid-fire weapons. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas proposed that the sheriff, district attorney, probation chief and health officials develop a set of recommendations within 30 days.
"The recent horrific events in San Bernardino are tragic reminders that the Board of Supervisors must ensure it is doing all that it can to prevent violence in the community and the workplace,"Â Supervisor Ridley-Thomas said in his motion, which was approved by the Board of Supervisors.
The county has taken steps to combat the underlying causes of violence, including creating school threat assessment teams and mental health first-aid training for community members and county staffers, but Ridley-Thomas said it wasn't enough.
"Much more needs to be done in the face of a deeply troubling and recurring pattern of mass shootings,"Â Ridley-Thomas said.
His motion laid out a short list of options for consideration, including further background checks on the sale of guns within Los Angeles County, insurance for gun buyers (similar to car insurance) to cover any taxpayer expenses incurred from the injurious use of a gun, and taxes on firearms and ammunition. [Read the motion here.] http://file.lacounty.gov/bos/supdocs/99886.pdf
Supervisor Michael Antonovich said he couldn't support the motion because it included those options.
"I support the efforts at improving workplace safety,"Â Antonovich said.
Antonovich asked county lawyers to provide a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the proposed gun policies.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a Second Amendment challenge to a Highland Park, Illinois, ordinance banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which was interpreted by some pundits as an opportunity for more local regulation.
Gun owners raised their own objections before the board Tuesday.
"You're stereotyping all gun owners as bad people,"Â one Antelope Valley resident told the board.
Why don’t they just make islamic terrorism illegal?
You must be already an elected official here in CA.
Yeah, apparently it is still ok for suspected terrorists to get jobs inspecting our schools. But don’t let them legally be able to buy guns. Because there is no way to buy guns if there is a law against it.
Haha <3
Where’s my lifetime pension!? Genius such as mine deserves lucrative compensation!
Oh yeah....Liberalism.
I hope the city gets the $hi+ sued out of them.
it’s all part of the NWO plan, allow the invasion of the country and incrementally disarm the citizens so they can then be easily controlled and slaughtered. How much clearer can it get?
Do they ever consider stopping crime?
My first gun, a J. C Higgins single shot .22, was ordered from the Sears catalog and delivered by the Post Office, in ‘63. The price was $13.00.
Those guns used in the SB shooting were bought by someone else (out of state?)
Why not just request THAT DANGED MOSLEMS STAY OUT?!
THAT would solve any possible concern, and do so without offending any actual humans.
Yea, verily yea...
With me, it was a trailer fire, even the ammo cooked off...
Change that headline to read, “County planning to violate the Second Amendment!” What part of the one sentence amendment?
Altogether now....SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!
Great idea! I’m sure Tyrone and Jose Gangbanger will diligently stand in line to turn in their illegal weapons.
If they made guns illegal like heroin and meth, then nobody could get them... oh wait.
No, they would start a torpedo and bomb buyback program.
And gun control will stop car and truck bombs? I heard somewhere that jihadis use those.
OMG! How about a ‘pipe-bomb buyback program’? I can totally see John Semmens running with that and getting it published around the world!
And don’t forget the remote controlled cars. They are REALISTIC representations of the big ones—and could be mistaken for the real thing—at least if you are seriously near sighted.
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