Clueless in Santa Clara County
An article on KCBS is entitled, “Probation Officers Get Right to Bear Arms.”
Just for the record, AND as a “newsflash” for the people at KCBS – probation officers have ALWAYS had the Right to keep and bear arms. That Right is reaffirmed for folks in the United States in the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. (Did these folks sleep through American history, or did they come from places where American history is not taught?) In fact, in 2008 the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed that the Second Amendment speaks to an INDIVIDUAL right to keep and bear arms – something that folks in government in California, particularly the Democrats, are trying hard to forget.)
Santa Clara County Supervisors, some of whom MAY be as confused as the folks at KCBS, have voted to arm probation officers for the first time. What took them so long? (Don’t they care about protecting the lives of their probation officers, or [callously] even “protecting their investment?”) Which ones are confused? The ones who expressed reservations about arming the officers…. The measure passed unanimously, so intelligence, if not a remembrance of history and law, prevailed.
Supervisor George Shirakawa said that only 23 probation officers will be allowed to carry guns.
They must be the probation officers who “are more equal than others.” (Yes, it’s time to quote Animal Farm, since George Orwell‘s Nineteen Eighty-four has been cited already for so accurately predicting the proliferation of (largely ineffective, for crime at least) surveillance cameras everywhere (in schools, in the homes of students) and especially in his native Britain. But that is ANOTHER article of the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment, which is also under siege right now….)
“Funny” that he used the term “slippery slope.” The real “slippery slope” in California (and in the rest of the U.S.) is the one that has led to headlines by news organizations that believe that the Right to Bear Arms can be granted by a group of County Supervisors. 
So this is “where we are” in California…. Please do not let them tell these lies to your children in other states of the U.S.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
Ask our good friends the British, and the people of many other nations.
-Bill at
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