Los Angeles Sheriff Works to Empty Jails While Disparaging Second Amendment Rights

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NRA-ILA 3/20/2020

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has an unorthodox plan for ensuring public safety during the COVID-19 pandemic: free imprisoned inmates, look the other way on crime, and try to suppress law-abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights.

We all know we are supposed to vigorously wash our hands to prevent the spread of coronavirus. We didn’t know, however, that lawmen were supposed to wash their hands of vigorously enforcing the law.

Applicants for concealed carry licenses in Los Angeles County must pass a background check and undergo at least 8 hours of firearms training, which includes demonstrating “shooting proficiency” in “live-fire exercises” in “accordance with LASD standards.”

But even those who satisfy these requirements can expect to be denied. “The Department’s overriding policy is that no concealed weapon license should be granted merely for the personal convenience of the applicant,” the department warns.

Otherwise qualified applicants will still be rejected unless they can provide “convincing evidence of a clear and present danger to life, or of great bodily harm” to themselves, a spouse, or a dependent child. Even then, the applicant somehow has to show that the danger cannot be “adequately dealt with by existing law enforcement resources” or “reasonably avoided by alternative measures” and that it “would be significantly mitigated by the applicant’s carrying of a concealed firearm.”

More: https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200320/los-angeles-sheriff-works-to-empty-jails-while-disparaging-second-amendment-rights