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CA: Push to make gun theft a felony in California once again
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Mark A. Taff
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Following passage of a popular ballot referendum that reduced many crimes in California last November to misdemeanors, a state lawmaker introduced legislation to make the theft of guns under $950 in value a felony.
This comes just months after Proposition 47 passed in a 17-point margin. Designed to reduce penalties for non-violent offenders such as drug possession and property crimes, it was intended to save taxpayer dollars spent in incarceration. The crimes transitioned from felonies to misdemeanors include commercial burglary, possession of stolen property or vehicle theft if under $950 in value, possession of illegal drugs and theft of most firearms. It is this last point that is now the target of a measure by a California lawmaker. |
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The theft of any firearm should be a felony, for the simple reason that the thief has taken what the victim's civil rights... the Right to effective self-defense.
Too bad the Kalifornia Assembly doesn't see it that way: they have prohibited the open carry of loaded (ready to use) firearms, thus infringing on the core Right, an unloaded firearm being just a club, and an unwieldy one at that. |
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