You're really one of the last people on this site that should be going at somebody for not reading something.
I did read the article that was posted, and I watched the video, jackass.
The article is poorly written, and the video still looks bad considering its length and the guy being on the floor. All things considered, my comment wasn't crazily overboard.
I think the broader issue that I have of these kinds of shootings is that having a weapon is usually automatically seen as legitimate grounds to be shot. If this particular guy was a threat, then he got what he asked for, but, in general, it's weird that the thing you can legally carry around for protection can be the thing that can get you killed. Two guys with guns seems to raise the odds of one of them being shot.
The thing you can legally carry for protection? Not in CA lol..
Huntington Beach is in Orange County...as of 2016, there were around 9300 CCWs in a county of approx 3 million people. There wee 34000 CCWs in all of California...which was probably around 38 million people back in 2016.
So, no...this guy was probably not legally carrying (if he indeed had a gun on him).
https://crpa.org/news/crpa/ccw-numbers-in-orange-county-are-on-the-rise/
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CCW Numbers In Orange County Are On The Rise!
December 20, 2016
Most of California’s county sheriffs now liberally issue CCWs to their respective county residents. As a result, there are more than 34,000 active CCW permits in California today. Still, this number is relatively small compared to California’s population. In most “shall-issue” states, about 5% of the population gets a CCW. But in California, less than 0.08% of residents have a CCW.
We want you to help change that.
The California Department of Justice has estimated that there were approximately 2,906 valid CCW permits in 2015 issued by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. But as of this October, that number has
skyrocketed to over 9,300, with many more applications still pending. Compared to the estimated 34,000 total number of CCW permits in California for 2015, that number is staggering."
For what it's worth, LA County is even worse...it has only issued 197 licenses in a county with a population of 10 million. Unless you're a judge or in law enforcement...good luck.
"It is exceedingly difficult for a law-abiding citizen to meet Los Angeles County’s criteria for a CCW license. Los Angeles County has issued 197 licenses to its 10.2 million residents. This works out to about 1 license for every 50,000 residents.
The audit, conducted by the California State Auditor, researched samples of 25 CCW licenses issued by three sheriff’s departments, Los Angeles County, Sacramento County, and San Diego County. For Los Angeles, the auditors concluded that the county “did not completely adhere to its policies when issuing any of the 25 CCW licenses we reviewed.” The researchers also determined, “Los Angeles issued all but one of these licenses without the level of documentation it expects to demonstrate that the applicant has met the good cause requirement.”
Rather than require the level of documentation for “good cause” outlined in their policy, Los Angeles County simply granted licenses to the well-connected. The auditors found the following,
22 of the 25 CCW licenses we reviewed were issued to applicants with professions that connected them to the law enforcement community: the individuals were former or current law enforcement officers, judges, court commissioners, retired federal agents, and deputy district attorneys.4
In fact, we found that of the 197 licenses that Los Angeles had issued that were active as of mid-August 2017, only nine were issued to applicants outside of that community."
https://www.nraila.org/articles/201...ses-to-the-well-connected-skirts-own-policies
