Attorney General Harris Joins List of Supporters of California Assault Weapon Bill
While California may have some of strongest gun control laws in the country, gun manufacturers are getting around one of the state’s most important assault weapon laws, claims Senator Leland Yee, sponsor of SB 249.
“Interpretation of existing law allows for the sale of semi-automatic weapons with easily detachable magazines,” a press release from Senator Yee’s office claims. They argue that similarly-styled weapons were used in the Aurora, Colorado massacre and may have been used in Sunday’s tragedy in Wisconsin.
In June, City Manager Steve Pinkerton’s pronouncement that the city’s retiree medical costs represent over 20% of payroll, and that number could go up as high as 25%, alarmed the Vanguard.
When District Attorney Jeff Reisig submitted his op-ed in support of the Death Penalty, he probably had no idea the response it would trigger. Oh sure, the Vanguard‘s response was a given. But unlike his string of unanswered press releases, many of which have distorted the facts of the case and even the jury’s verdicts and were reprinted verbatim without response, the op-ed generated considerable response.
For those of you who do not like speculation, this is your warning, this column is partly about speculation, but that is almost by design and indeed part of the problem. Last spring, as we attempted to find out the identities of UC Davis police officers involved in the November 18 clearing operation of the Quad, that ended with the pepper spraying of students, and multiple investigations, we were constantly questioned about why it was important to know the names of the officers.
There have been some interesting new developments this week with regard to water. On Thursday of next week, the Water Advisory Committee (WAC) will meet in a crucial meeting that may determine at least the WAC’s recommendation for the water project.
Yesterday there was a spirited discussion here on the Vanguard about a long-standing challenge that the Vanguard faces . . . how best to handle reader-submitted comments that are tangentially related to the published article. Tangential comments are not bad in their own right, but they often do sidetrack discussion of the article’s topic. I would like to propose a solution to that problem, and hope that readers will comment on that proposed solution here.
