Democrats hate you and want you to be defenseless: California gun control edition

If Democrat politicians were honest patriotic Americans they'd use the process defined in the Constitution to eliminate our right to keep and bear arms to protect ourselves.

But since they're not their strategy is to pass so many laws that make it hard to own a gun so that only the rich can defend themselves.  It's no accident that the big guns behind gun control, think Bloomberg, often have armed security guards.

One example of how California leftists want to effectively deprive Californians of their constitutional right for self defense is a law passed a law requiring a background check for buying ammunition.  Given that without a gun ammunition is pretty useless the clear intent of this law was to make it hard for Californians to exercise their Constitutional right to protect themselves.

The reality is that while the police in California are dedicated folks who are willing to put their lives on the line to protect citizens they're often, through no fault of their own, minutes away when help is needed in seconds.

Requiring a background check when someone purchases a gun is burdensome but not unduly so since people don't buy guns regularly.  But demanding that same background check, which the citizen has to pay for, every time they buy ammunition is highly burdensome.

Fortunately a same judge got the case and said:

Together, the background check requirement for all ammunition purchases in California and the anti-importation provisions that prohibit direct sales to residents often effect a complete statutory barrier to the lawful purchase of ammunition. Moreover, the provisions are interlocking and derive from the same section of Proposition 63. See §§ 8.1 through 8.16. The anti-importation provisions are not severable from the ammunition background check requirements. Even if only one part was unconstitutional both parts would need to be enjoined. But severability does not matter here, as both parts fail constitutional muster and require injunctive relief….

Law-abiding citizens are imbued with the unalienable right to keep and bear firearms along with the ammunition to make their firearms work. That a majority today may wish it were otherwise, does not change the Constitutional right. It never has. California has tried its unprecedented experiment. The casualties suffered by law abiding citizens have been counted. Presently, California and many other states sit in isolation under pandemic-inspired stay-at-home orders. Schools, parks, beaches, and countless non-essential businesses are closed. Courts are limping by while police make arrests for only the more serious crimes. Maintaining Second Amendment rights are especially important in times like these. Keeping vigilant is necessary in both bad times and good, for if we let these rights lapse in the good times, they might never be recovered in time to resist the next appearance of criminals, terrorists, or tyrants.

California Democrats want you unsafe and insecure so that you have no choice but to turn to the government and give up your freedoms in return for safety.