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Politics comes down to people.  Some of them are real people, and some of them are invisible.  This is true even in the case of sophisticated legal appeals to the 9th district court.  Bill Gore is the Sheriff of San Diego County.  He said he wanted to issue licenses so citizens could carry a concealed weapon in public.  He really wanted to.  That is what he told me.  He said, sadly, that California law prevented him from granting those licenses.  That is what his un-named lawyer told him.  I’ve had legal experts tell me otherwise, but it is hard to...

inShare ReprintPrint Email Font Resize Judge affirms San Diego County gun permit system The Associated Press Posted: 12/13/2010 07:14:04 PM PST Updated: 12/13/2010 08:48:20 PM PST SAN DIEGO—San Diego County's system of issuing permits for carrying concealed weapons does not violate gun owners' constitutional rights, despite recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions protecting the right to keep guns at home, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Irma Gonzalez ruled against gun owners and a gun ownership group who had sued the county, arguing its permitting standards were invalidated by the two recent high court decisions. The county maintained the Supreme...

SAN DIEGO -- A lawyer seeking a new mayoral election for San Diego told a federal judge Tuesday that the city violated its own charter by allowing a write-in candidate to run for mayor and a new vote should be held between the top two finishers in the primary. Blair Krueger argued that the city clerk never should have permitted voters on Nov. 2 to write Councilwoman Donna Frye's name on a blank line below the two men who finished first and second in the March primary -- incumbent Dick Murphy and San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts. "There's a...