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CA: Sheriff's gun policy assailed
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"To some local residents' dismay, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown doesn't believe the public is made safer by permitting more people to carry loaded and concealed weapons."
"And he cites a 2005 handgun murder that climaxed a road-rage incident in Buellton as evidence of why he feels that way."
"'Philosophically, I probably tend to be more conservative in issuing concealed-weapons permits' than were his recent predecessors, said the first-term sheriff who took office in January. ..."
"'I don't subscribe to the theory that it's safer in public if you have large numbers of armed people running around,' Brown added during an interview at his Sheriff's Department office near Goleta." ... |
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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