Posts by L.A. Paredes
What’s More Terrifying: An Armed Teacher or Active Shooter?
What’s more terrifying? Your kid facing a deranged teenager with a gun, or simply knowing someone on campus is well trained and oh, by the way, armed? That should be…
Read MoreIt’s the EVIL Club: NO ONE Should EVER be Gunned Down – Especially in Worship
“Please arm yourself when you are here; we never know when we will need it.’” How many new stories about the synagogue shooting led off with that comment? Yet that’s…
Read More“PREDICTIVE POLICING in California” – Are YOU a Future Criminal?
Those who joke about comparing Senator Jackson’s SB 55 to the movie Minority Report might need to rethink a few things. Was it really simply a science fiction thriller and…
Read MoreA Day at the Capitol, and I Need a Shower
By Sam Paredes GOC Executive Director and Lobbyist As soon as I left the Capitol on Tuesday I drove straight home, barreling too fast down the highway. I was eager…
Read MoreThe Bump Stock Ban: MUCH More At Stake Than Most Realize
Banning bump stocks – what’s next? Rubber bands? Bungee cords? Belt loops? As pleased as we’ve been with having a huge 2nd Amendment advocate in the White House, and an…
Read MoreCalifornia Gun Ownership Doubles! OH NO!
When it was reported this week that in ten short years the number of gun owners in California has more than doubled, the anti-gun crowd must have been spittin’ nails. …
Read MoreLegalized Voter Fraud in California? Say It Isn’t So!
What do you get when you take same-day voter registration, pre-voter registration for teens and also clear the path for felons and illegal aliens to vote? A big mess. And…
Read MoreAnti-Gun Legislative Floodgates Opened – and It Ain’t Pretty!
The anti-gun legislative floodgates have officially opened, and as it happens with any rush of sludgy muck, the results sure ain’t pretty. 2,576. That’s how many bills have been introduced…
Read MoreIt Does NOT Take Courage to Restrict a Constitutional Right
“Stopping gun violence takes courage” says former congresswoman and gun control aficionada Gabby Giffords. “Courage to do what’s right, courage to use new ideas.” Courage is defined as the “mental or…
Read MoreCalifornia Democrat Legislators to SCOTUS: Middle Finger on Gun Storage
Democrat legislators in California are making a habit of giving the middle finger to the Supreme Court of the United States. They think they are somehow smarter, wiser, and well,…
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