{"id":11598,"date":"2011-10-10T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T19:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T19:12:51","slug":"california-bans-carrying-even-unloaded-firearms-grants-taxpayer-aid-to-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11598\/california-bans-carrying-even-unloaded-firearms-grants-taxpayer-aid-to-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bans Carrying Even Unloaded Firearms, Grants Taxpayer Aid to Illegal Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things were already pretty bad in California, as it hurtles down the fast track toward <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/07\/06\/news\/economy\/California_bonds_almost_at_junk\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">junk bond status<\/a> and a Greek-style financial collapse.\u00a0 But instead of even tapping the brakes, its political leaders are flooring the accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Governor Moonbeam &#8211; pardon, Jerry Brown &#8211; signed into law <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204450804576620882443354962.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1\" target=\"_blank\">taxpayer-funded financial aid<\/a> to illegal immigrants.\u00a0 Never mind that undocumented students can&#8217;t even legally work in the state, or that fewer financial aid dollars will now be available to legal residents.\u00a0 No, what California&#8217;s political leaders think the state needs is another new government benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Compounding that assault against California taxpayers, Gov. Brown today signed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aroundthecapitol.com\/Bills\/AB_144\/20112012\/\" target=\"_blank\">A.B. 144<\/a>, which prohibits openly carrying firearms in public &#8211; even if they&#8217;re unloaded.\u00a0 The bill also prohibits &#8220;allowing a person to bring an open and exposed unloaded handgun into the vehicle,&#8221; along with an array of other new restrictions.\u00a0 While other states continue to allow greater Second Amendment freedoms and enjoy lower crime rates as a result, California opts for the European model (where firearms bans have led to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-25671\/Violent-crime-worse-Britain-US.html\" target=\"_blank\">higher crime<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>After years of policy mistakes like these, it&#8217;s no wonder the formerly golden state failed to gain a new House seat for the first time <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.ocregister.com\/2010\/12\/21\/california-gets-no-new-house-seats-from-2010-census\/46066\/\" target=\"_blank\">since 1920<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things were already pretty bad in California, as it hurtles down the fast track toward junk bond status and a Greek-style financial collapse.\u00a0 But instead of even tapping the brakes, its political leaders are flooring the accelerator. On Saturday, Governor Moonbeam &#8211; pardon, Jerry Brown &#8211; signed into law taxpayer-funded financial aid to illegal immigrants.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3113,299,3111,2319,3110,1553,3112],"class_list":["post-11598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-a-b-144","tag-california","tag-carry","tag-firearms","tag-gun-ban","tag-illegal","tag-unloaded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}