The guy is able to fight off the attackers using a folding knife (story at NBC).  In the process he does enough damage to send the assailants to the hospital.  I imagine the identification line up is easier when you are looking for the stab wounds :-p.

P.S.  Remember, the unfortunate statistics about resisting a robbery.  Resisting with a gun is the least likely to end with the victim getting injured.  Then, _no resistance_.  Then resisting with a weapon…  Of course, in this case, it looks like the guy was injured but had considerably less injuries than if he hadn’t had the knife…

Remarkably(ha!), there has been a very strong backlash in the Facebook community…. Fox has a nice story on that here.

Below is a screen capture of his comments from Kevin Thomason’s blog.

Government waste at work!  Didn’t this just get passed as a STATE law (ammoland.com)?

And people think we would be better off if our legislature session was not all year long.. I mean, it’s not like they have free time — laws like this are so important, they deserved to be passed twice!

Gura explains “You see … Chicago is full of idiots.”

Awesome! In Alan Gura’s response to the City of Chicago brief to the Supreme court he coherently tells the court that the City of Chicago is full of idiots who have no idea what they are talking about and are just making stuff up.

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT
1. Respondents offer no coherent alternative
interpretation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause,
nor do they defend the reasoning of The Slaughter-
House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873). Relying
on illogical assumptions, selective quotation of the
Fourteenth Amendment’s opponents and discredited
scholarship, Respondents aver only that the Clause
is either indeterminate or redundant of other provisions.
It is neither. And included within the Clause’s
protection is the right to keep and bear arms as
understood in 1868 America.

…

The fundamental flaw underlying Respondents’
approach is their erroneous conception of rights as
something granted by the Constitution when judges
deem it suits public policy. See, e.g., Respondents Br.
11; Mayors Br. 2, 30. The Second Amendment, like
the First, grants nothing. These secure pre-existing
rights against the federal government. Heller, 128
S. Ct. at 2812. In 1868, the Nation decided to secure
them against the States as well.

“Willows High Principal Mort Geivett and other district officials did not appear to dispute that the parking space was off school property, but they cited several justifications. One of them was the legal doctrine of in loco parentis — where school officials may act in place of a parent for school functions.”

Really?  Seriously….  REALLY???? So, my parents don’t care if I go duck hunting in the morning, but, my school as parent does care and doesn’t let me? Wow.

It’s not like it was this kid:

He, along with Klobuchar (the other MN Senator) voted to extend the Patriot Act, roving wiretaps and all!

To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am signing Assembly Bill 962.

This measure would require vendors of handgun ammunition to keep a log of information on handgun ammunition sales, store ammunition in a safe and secure manner, and require the faceto-face transfer of ammunition sales. Although I have previously vetoed legislation similar to this measure, local governments have demonstrated that requiring ammunition vendors to keep records on ammunition sales improves public safety. These records have allowed law enforcement to arrest and prosecute persons who have no business possessing firearms and ammunition: gang members, violent parolees, second and third strikers, and even people previously serving time in state prison for murder. Utilized properly, this type of information is invaluable for keeping communities safe and preventing dangerous felons from committing crimes with firearms.

Moreover, this type of recordkeeping is no more intrusive for law abiding citizens than similar laws governing pawnshops or the sale of cold medicine. Unfortunately, even the most successful local program is flawed; without a statewide law, felons can easily skirt the record keeping requirements of one city by visiting another. Assembly Bill 962 will fix this problem by mandating that all ammunition vendors in the state keep records on ammunition sales.

As Governor, I have sought the appropriate balance between public safety and the right to keep and bear arms. I have signed important public safety measures to regulate the sale and transfer of .50 caliber rifles, instituted the California Firearms License Check program, and promoted the use of microstamping technology in handguns. I have also vetoed many pieces of legislation that sought to place unreasonable restrictions and burdens on firearms dealers and ammunition vendors. Assembly Bill 962 reasonably regulates access to ammunition and improves public safety without placing undue burdens on consumers.

For these reasons, I am pleased to sign this bill.
Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Really? Such efforts have been shown to stop crime? It wont be a burden to keep files forever and to document every sale? It wont burden firearms people to no longer be able to mail order ammunition? And, as a model, he holds up his “successful” previous measure like microstamping — which even the DOJ says is unenforceable because it is so unfeasible. Further he holds up the embarrassment of a law that requires people to register when they buy cold medicine? For these reasons he was “pleased” to sign the bill???? WTF??? Of course now the felons will no longer skirt the law by going to a nearby city — they will have to go to a nearby state.

• remove mail order ammunition sales
• add cost to sales because vendors will be required to record personal information and fingerprint every purchaser and keep records for inspection
• force vendors to redesign stores to keep ammunition in locked cabinets or out of public consumer areas.

This will not reduce crime (obviously). This will create unnecessary burdens on ammunition vendors and firearm range owners. This is a waste of money and effort and only serves as a form of harassment against law abiding citizens. As CK mentioned, this now moves to the Governer’s desk for a signature or veto. If he does not act in 30 d, this will automatically become law. In the past, he has always signed or vetoed such legislation after waiting until the last minute to hear comment from the community — usually signed ( .50 cal ban, microstamping).

Please contact the Governor now…

Email him here.

Or, if you are a little less lazy, consider calling/faxing or writing him here:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

State Capitol Building

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: 916-445-2841

Fax: 916-558-3160 ( new number )

Heck…. Just do all four.

I find it sad the cowardly tactic this bills sponsors have used to get this bill through committee votes at the last minute at almost every stage. Hopefully the governor will have the backbone to veto this bill when it slinks onto his desk.

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This is just a burden to legal gun owners.  Please contact all of our state senators, here is a link to all the CA State Senators.    P.S., if you purchase a lot of ammo, the state will probably assume you are illegally reselling and use that as probable cause to charge you with a crime and certainly search all your possessions — over, and over again.

(jk – made sticky aug 28, removed sticky aug 31)