Sen. Leland Yee Is Getting Threats Over His "Un-American" Gun-Control Bill

Remember that Sen Leeland YEE is planning to run for Secretary Of State in 2014, dont let this anti-American have your vote. Sen Yee appears to not support the US constitution and our right to own weapons. You can see how he thinks and this is something I would expect to see in Communist China, not America. Someone should start a petition website against Sen Yee to make everyone knows where he stands and stop him from running for Secretary of State. I say VOTE HIM OUT...!  

It isn't to make "bullet buttons harder to use." The fact of the matter is this article is a lie. Read the bill. Then read Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution. Then read about imminent domain. Then explain to me what defines a modified weapon. Does a hunter who drills and taps his rifle to add  a scope need to have his rifle confiscated? Under this law, it could. This law has violates imminent  domain, but furthermore, its an ex post facto law. Which is unconstitutional. Also, these so called "assault weapons" are only called as such because they are cosmetically similar to their fully automatic cousins/predecessors. The round is actually a varmint round. I'd rather be shot by a 5.56 (22 caliber) from an AR than a .338 lapua from a hunting rifle any day of the week. And notice this are all issues that don't even deal with the 2nd amendment. Erin Sherbert, you are writing an article about two things which you are obviously completely uneducated and uniformed on and those are a) the law and b) guns. Why don't you go write an article about nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, because I'm sure you have no clue about those either but you certainly seem to think its fair to write, and have a strong opinion about something you don't even know about. Oh, and not to mention, this was an amendment to an AGRICULTURAL law. Go ahead and support the dirty practices of our politicians. Thank you for your complete lack of integrity and knowledge, I've come to expect nothing more of the media. You should be fired. Both your Democratic Party and the Republican Party pull dirty tricks like this and you just play into it. You should be proud of yourself.  

 *illegal guns. Not those that were legally purchased by law-biding citizens with no history of violence or felonies.

Now we should ban boiling water: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/07/jesusa_tatad.php?ref=trending

i love how they use old examples to bolster the case but no real current examples. This law, if passed will not pass judicial scrutiny anyhow.

Apparently there are no real problems in California like entire cities going broke or rampant illegal immigration. It's those pesky bullet buttons that are the problem.

Tiny- We could both add more examples, but I want to make several additional points here: First, in my case, retrieving my weapon usually only requires drawing it from the holster on my belt.  Second, there is good, peer reviewed academic research that concludes privately owned firearms are used defensively to thwart 2.4 million crimes each year.  For handguns, the figure is 1.9 million defensive uses per year.  This does not imply any shots are fired.  Most often simply stating one had a weapon or merely displaying the weapon was enough to prevent an assault, although actual shootings were a small fraction of the defensive uses.

 Nice try! Victims are almost always able to retrieve their loaded pistol/rifle in time to shoot the intruder. Fantasy time. Live in a city, instead of your rural homestead and you will see what guns are doing to our cities. • March 29, 2009: Devan Kalathat, 42, shot and killed his two children and three other relatives, then killed himself in an upscale neighborhood of Santa Clara, Calif. Kalathat's wife was critically injured. • March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people • including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy • across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself. • Feb. 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide. • Dec. 5, 2007: Robert A. Hawkins, 19, opened fire with a rifle at a Von Maur store in an Omaha, Neb., mall, killing eight people before taking his own life. Five more people were wounded, two critically. • April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. • Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, shot to death five girls at West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, then killed himself. Shall I go on?

Mass killings several times a year (at schools, work) and people still support the owning of mass-killing guns! Such brainwashing from the NRA and so-called individual righters. Each of  us has the individual right to the pursuit of happiness--and to be free of fear of lunatics who have yet to commit a crime but then decide to SLAUGHTER innocents. Reasonable folk support you, Leland!

The states where owning an AR-15 or other assault style rifles with all the 'evil" features that the California law bans, are also having historically low homicide rates. The lowered homicide and crime rates have more to to with the aging of the American population than any gun ban. Funny, most of these people who pass these laws and vote for them, don't own them. Most of the time their only knowledge about them are from movies, TV and video games. Though, the 11 to 12 year old kids who play the video games, actually know more about the guns than these lawmakers.

Collinsgrandparent, you're absolutely right, but also painfully misinformed. The misery and pain is set upon those of us law abiding gun owners that are forced to live under the barrage of ridiculous gun laws the legislators in this state put forth that do NOTHING to stop criminals from access to guns. It is us law abiding citizens that therefore suffer misery and pain. When are you liberals EVER going to face reality?

Proof: UN Plans To Ban American Guns   Infowars.comJuly 14, 2012 Globalist United Nations moving to undermine and kill off Second Amendment. See more in Alex’s addendum and even more evidence/explanation of the gun ban intent. Watch the following News clips: Emergency Alert! UN Set To Ban Civilian Gun Ownership  http://www.infowars.com/proof-un-plans-to-ban-american-guns/ 

Get your head out of the sand! Criminals love it! That is why Obama and Hilary are pushing for it!

Vote hin out at the first opportunity and never mind waiting for the door to hit him on the way out - throw the door at him on the way out!

I'm trying to figure out why the good Sen. Leland Yee PhD. is pushing a law for an ALREADY ILLEGAL tool on a silly dangerous device, the bullet button mag release.  I have a question(s), how many of these AWFUL, EVIL, BLACK 'ASSULT' RIFLES are used in the commission of a crime here in California?  Next how many of the aformentiond EVIL GUNS are legally purchased by gang bangers and used in the aformentioned crime?  I'm going to guess the number is REALLY CLOSE TO ZERO.  As for the use of his picture as a target, haven't seen one yet and doubt I ever will, we're not Liberals.  I would strongly suggest that our elected representatives stop listening to a highly partisan group, the Brady Bunch and listen to the citizens the actually VOTE for them.

I think the lack of guns causes 'misery and pain'.  Cases in point, China, Russia, Nazi Germany, Great Britian, Australia .....  In a few cases they are subjects, in others crime is way up and they're victims.  Personally I choose to be neither.

Yes, the difference between misery and pain and preserving America's way of life is one state passing a ban on one tiny feature of one kind of weapon that up until now has been perfectly legal and that no one can demonstrate has ever facilitated criminal activity to any measurable degree. What a responsible use of time and tax money by California's legislature and Mr. Lee in particular. Good thing there's no crippling budget crisis going on, or this kind of thing might seem ridiculous!

http://www.8asians.com/2011/07/25/sf-weekly-sf-mayoral-candidate-leland-yee-cant-erase-his-past/

Yay for Leeland making lawyers rich, at tax payers expense.  SB 249 is riddled with problems.

Oh, grow a brain, please.  Before the 14th Amendment was ratified, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution forbade blacks from being citizens.   The Constitution is not a perfect and sacred document.  It is the product of human endeavor and compromise and therefore necessarily imperfect.  Perhaps some people who object to things in the Constitution (or, more accurately, have an interpretation of the Constitution that is different from yours) are merely thinking beings.  They may be right, they may be wrong, but at least they have minds of their own. People who say stupid things like "If you go against the Constitution...you are a Traitor." are substituting sloganeering for thinking and are beneath contempt.

Guns cause only misery and pain? A number of folks would disagree vigorously with that sweeping, erroneous assertion: Sarah McKinley, an 18 year old Oklahoma mother, widowed by cancer, used a shotgun to protect herself and her 3 month old son.  Two thugs broke down her front door to gain entry.  The first one to break through charged her with a foot long knife, but was cut down by a blast to the torso from her 12 gauge.  The other thug fled and was arrested later. Kevin Perry of Bend, Oregon, arrived home to find his front door broken in and Shane Michael Munoz, 33, ransacking his living room.  A fight ensued, Perry drew a gun and shot Munoz in the chest, ending the burlary, the assault and Munoz's life.  Munoz was pronounced dead after police arrived at the scene. A 53-year-old female school counselor in Gwinnett County, Georgia, was in her shower when Israel Perez Puentes broke into her home and attempted to rape her.  She tried to fight him off with the shower curtain rod, but was knocked down into the bathtub and injured.  She then told him she had money in her bedroom.  He took her to the bedroom where she grabbed her .22 caliber pistol and shot him nine times.  He fled the home, but collapsed in the yard and was pronounced dead at the scene.  There are literally many hundreds of such events annually in this country, and thousands more where mere display of a weapon causes criminals to flee.  They are generally only accorded local news coverage.  The major media news organizations dislike stories showing the utility of weapons. In addition to these individual cases, do you suppose the millions of Europeans that were spared Nazi domination because Americans carrying Garand rifles ended the Third Reich would agree that guns cause only misery and pain? I can tell you that one of my ancestors would disagree.  He soldiered with a long rifle in the American Revolution, which won us the freedoms we enjoy today. That would include our second amendment right to keep and bear arms, which the founding fathers were careful to ensure.

So, what was the ratio of racist emails verses calm, reasoned and thoughtful debate from gun owners "not "gun totters" as the obviously biased blogger calls them)? I'm not surprised that this is not mentioned.

Senator Yee should understand that his legislation is unconstitutional and seeks to ban that which has already been declared legal by the CA DOJ. It is yet another step toward criminalizing law-abiding citizens who already cannot enjoy the freedoms available in 49 other states. It is time to stop the misguided nanny instinct that seems prevalent among CA legislators.