Meet the F-Bomb-Spewing Ex-Cop Behind the NRA’s Move to Topple California’s Gun Laws
The "personality matrix" of these types is always the same...<snip>
"THE NRA ASKED ME to keep my mouth shut, but I've never run from a fuckin' interview in my life," Edward Peruta barks into the phone. The 66-year-old Vietnam vet, ex-cop, public-access TV host, worm farmer, legal investigator, crime scene videographer, and serial litigant has never been one to hold his tongue, and he's not about to start now that he's at the center of a high-profile case that could upend California's gun laws and wind up before the Supreme Court. "I am who I am," he says. "People know there's usually a hurricane comin' if they step on my rights."
Peruta is the lead plaintiff in Peruta v. County of San Diego, a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn California's system of issuing concealed-weapon permits. Currently, the state's police chiefs and sheriffs may require applicants to show "good cause" for carrying a concealed gun in public. Such discretion is applied arbitrarily and violates the Second Amendment, according to Peruta and his legal team, which is backed by the National Rifle Association.
That argument swayed two judges on the 9th Circuit Court, who ruled in Peruta's favor in February. For a moment, it seemed that California would join the 37 "shall issue" states that issue concealed-carry permits to anyone who meets basic requirements such as a background check. Then California Attorney General Kamala Harris successfully petitioned the court to reconsider the ruling en banc. Next Tuesday, an 11-judge panel in San Francisco will hear oral arguments in the case.
Both sides of the gun debate are watching Peruta intently. "If the California permitting system were struck down, that could be the difference between tens of thousands of people and a million or more people carrying in public," predicts Mike McLively, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which has filed an amicus brief in support of the current law. Gene Hoffman, chairman of the Calguns Foundation, which is sponsoring a similar case that will be heard alongside Peruta's, expects the Supreme Court to step in after the 9th rules: "I think they're gonna take this case whatever direction it goes."
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/edward-peruta-san-diego-concealed-carry
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)Because many of them have turned the permitting process into an ATM for campaign contributions.
Want a concealed carry permit? Donate to the sheriff's reelection campaign. That's particularly true in the rural areas of CA.
As much as I hate to agree with the NRA, they're in the right here.
villager
(26,001 posts)But then, for the NRA, that would be the perfect "solution."
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)I don't think the thugs on the streets are waiting with baited breath to be able to get their concealed carry permit. In fact, I will go out on a limb and guess that the average criminal is very much against the idea of legal concealed carry. It would just make their job riskier.
villager
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Sparhawk60
(359 posts)I am sure Carol Bowne would love to chime in on this issue. To bad her ex violated a court order and stabbed her to death while NJ sat on her application to carry a gun. But, hey, at least no gun crime was committed.
villager
(26,001 posts)..due to the easy access to guns their abusers had.
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)The question on the table is...should non-criminals have guns.
villager
(26,001 posts)But your ilk does want to make it easier for abusers to keep their hands on their guns.
Got it.
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)He broke the law and was a criminal well before he shot her. Your "ink", as you say, seems to want to make sure women can not defend them selves. Care to share any thing else you feel women should not be allowed to do?
villager
(26,001 posts)...you can spew your crap to the dead body of the woman I knew in college who's non-criminal husband shot her dead during counseling, with one of the guns you and your ilk helped put in his hands
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)And we go from discussing a well published event; an issue that tied directly in to a the OP. to your undocumented story about some woman you knew. May be your friend would still be alive if more than just criminals had guns.
Rereading the above posts. One point stands out, I am in favor of arming other wise defenseless women, and you are emotionally opposed to the idea. Why is that?
I don't how keeping guns away from criminals and allowing women to own guns is a bad thing.
villager
(26,001 posts)You seem to like the free-flow of guns that killed women I know.
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)and you seem to have a problem with that.
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
