Let’s start at the end of this report by California’s kcoy.com: “Isla Vista Foot Patrol and UC Police conducted a check off the area with a K9 unit. At about 7:00AM authorities detained the suspect and recovered the weapon. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office says the man owned the rifle legal [sic] and no crime was committed. They say he was transferring his rifle from his car to his apartment and made no threats.” “Recovered the weapon”? Is that what the California cops do with legally owned guns when the locals spot one and have a cow? OK, so, can you guess how much trouble this “inadvertent brandishing” caused. Hint: this went down somewhere near UC Santa Barbara, one of America’s premier party schools (Floatopia above) . . .
UC Santa Barbara Campus Police sent out alerts of a man with a rifle walking down Sabado Tarde in Isla Vista just a few blocks from the UCSB campus. At about 4:00 AM UC Santa Barbara Police sent out emergency alerts via email and text message warning students and staff of a man walking around Isla Vista with a rifle.
“It’s once a week you have an alert, really, it’s like oh someone was assaulted and arrested, there was a break in the library, guy was running around with a weapon. It’s really scary!” says UCSB student Michelle Alfarez . . .
UC Santa Barbara has an emergency alert system which warns students of threats in the area. You can register for these alerts by logging onto the UCSB alert page and warnings can be sent to directly to your phone via email or text message.
I am so in. And while I await the alerts about crappy punch and professors who actually failed a student, note that California will soon have a ban on openly carrying long guns. If Rifle Guy’s neighbors had ratted him out after January 1, 2013, he could have been looking at six months in prison and/or a $1000 fine. How great is that?
We gotta get out while we’re young!
Ryan, you have bought into the rhetoric and it will be your generation that will see the demise of this nation as a free land. People of your generation have lost the realization that this country is owned by we the people and we are not subjects or property of the state. That is why our founders guaranteed to us the right to keep and bear arms. It is not you to say what barrel length or round capacity our weapons should hold. We are each sovereign over our homes, we are the police, the military and the law in our house. The police is not there to protect you, they are reactive, their job is to apprehend and the legal system punishes, and that is in the best of times, in situations where there is a breakdown in the rule of law the police are not there. It is up to us to protect our home, and our person and our loved ones at all times. If my home is invaded by intruders then I am going to be engaged in close quarters combat and that combat is just as valid as the combat you may have seen in your tours of duty. Therefore I am entitled to the defend my home with the tools that are most efficient for that purpose. I am entitled to defend my home with short barreled high capacity weapons if I see fit. We are entitled to defend this land we own against tyrants as well.
One thing all the mass shooting have in common is that the victims were not armed, or protected by armed citizens. Sandy Hook was a no gun zone yet that did not protect anyone. The death was not because of high capacity weapons, as you should know the bad guys were dealing with defenseless individuals.
Murders are committed by people, not weapons whether someone shoots, poisons, stabs, run over, or bludgeons it is the person committing the act. Our problem is devaluation and loss of respect for life, not the type of weapons we have. Murder rates are highest in higher population areas, that should tell you people are the problem, murder happens where there is more people, not more guns.