Let's Boycott San Francisco

[sfhogman]

Contact our Visitor's Convention Bureau. Aside from Gallo and Cariani salami, and Anchor Steam Beer -which I am NOT giving up- San Francisco has little to offer besides.........TOURISM! Let our Visitor's Bureau know why you'd feel safer in, say, Sedona this year. In the nicest possible way, of course.

http://onlysf.sfvisitor.org

They'll understand.

Jeff

 

[HKGuns]

Letter sent.

 

[madmike]

I'm working on a T-shirt.

"I left my keys, wallet, cash and dignity in San Francisco because I left my Glock in Texas."

I'm just amused that this was Preparation H, er, Propaganda H, er Cell Block H, er...Proposition Rape, er...

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

Re: "Contact our Visitor's Convention Bureau. Aside from Gallo and Cariani salami, and Anchor Steam Beer -which I am NOT giving up- San Francisco has little to offer besides.........TOURISM! "

You forgot panhandlers.

I hope the NRA law suit drags on long enough that Daly and fellow ninnies get a chance to see a few more shootouts go down and experience the "effectiveness" of their insipid law.

 

[Art Eatman]

I disremember where I read it, but the no-handgun law ain't really "law". Symbolic gesture. State law already forbids cities from this sort of nonsense.

Any California lawyers out there?

Art

 

[Pilgrim]

If I lived there, I'd be inclined to guard my wife for $1 per month, and she could guard me for $1 per month.

There's nothing in the law that would preclude this, from what I can tell.

You would have to attend and pass security guard licensing with a firearms endorsement.

To carry concealed you would still have to obtain a CCW permit.

I would suggest forming your own security company with an exclusive clientele.

Pilgrim

 

[svtruth]

Gun Manufacturers

Will handgun manufacturers refuse to ship to SF/CA a la Barret?
And aren't you glad you are not a SF LEO, who is now defenseless against BGs when off duty? And the BGs know it.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Rice-a-roni "The San Francisco Treat" is actually made in Chicago?
Are there no bounds to the disillusionments we face?

Ten years ago, Chicago newspaper columnist Joan Beck wrote
approvingly of the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban, then noted in
the next paragraph that of 2,400 homicides in the preceding
three years, only three had been committed with assault
weapons. One of eight hundred. She defended the AWB as
a symbolic gesture in the face of the NRA. Clinton and Gore
credit backlash against the AWB with Democrats losing the
House, the Senate and White House to the Republicans.
[Not all republicans are pro run rights and not all Democrats
are pro gun control but that is another issue.]

Chris Daly and what appears to be an active minority of
residents but a majority of voters have promoted and passed
another empty symbolic gesture form of legislation. Someone
remarked years ago: "It does the dignity of the law no good
to pass unenforceable statutes."

Gun control is a noisy clash of symbols.

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government
has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't
enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be
a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking
laws...." --Ayn Rand

Chris Daly has given thousands of San Franciscans the choice of
surrendering their personal security or becoming outlaws.

"In every effort to rise above human nature we invariably sink
beneath it. Your reformist demi-gods are just devils turned inside
out." -- Edgar Allan Poe

 

[R.H. Lee]

I don't go to SF unless I absolutely have to.....and it's only 220 miles north.

 

[ElTacoGrande]

Will handgun manufacturers refuse to ship to SF/CA a la Barret?
And aren't you glad you are not a SF LEO, who is now defenseless against BGs when off duty? And the BGs know it.

This sucks the worst for SF cops. They are the only SF residents who really will have to comply with the law because their department will make a policy, and it will be enforceable.

The one thing they have going for them is that few of them can afford to live within SF proper, and this law only applies to SF residents. Non-residents can continue as before.

I'm still wondering what impact this will have on SF CCW issuance. Does a CCW let a resident get around this law? If so there will be a big uptick in the number of SF CCWs, which could open Sheriff Henessey up to some legal problems down the road.

 

[RealGun]

Not a problem. I already boycott air travel.

 

[JJE]

I moved out of SF a couple of months ago - it's a much better place to visit than to live in. However, I still work here and have all my internet purchases delivered to the office. There are already vendors who will not ship ammo to SF (Midway USA for example) because the city has some unusual tax scheme for ammo (another back-door gun control strategy in disguise). Come 1/1/06 my internet ammo supply line may dry up if all vendors decide not to deliver here.

On the bright side, there's a good chance this measure won't stand up in court. It will be interesting to see if SFers trying to sell handguns in advance of 1/1/06 creates a buyer's market in used hardware. Maybe I can buy Diane Feinstein's old CCW piece - anybody know what she carried?

 

[ElTacoGrande]

This really will have no effect

The law doesn't spell out what the penalties would be for residents caught possessing handguns. Prop. H leaves it up to the city's Board of Supervisors to vote on penalties.

Everyone knows that this was a symbolic law, designed to "send a message" (that message being ). If the Supes get to decide what the penalty is, my guess is that they will make it either a light misdemeanor, or maybe even just an infraction (like a parking ticket). I think there are enough sane people to think through the implications of trying to have thousands of felony cases against otherwise law-abiding residents. Remember, SF is (for the most part) an affluent town, with people who can afford heavy-duty lawyers. Does the city really want to invest money in trials over something like this?

Despite what some here may think, SF is not 100% full of fruits and nuts. There are some fruits and nuts in the city but also some sane reasonable people And, as you can see, 40% of the people voted "no" on the ban. There is a surprisingly large group of people there who are pro-gun-rights, many of them in SF's gay community.

 

[JonL]

Sam,

A boycott sounds good, but are the people of San Fransisco intelligent enough to understand the boycott?



Hmmm, I don't know...

 

[Sam Adams]

A boycott sounds good, but are the people of San Fransisco intelligent enough to understand the boycott?

Who cares if the people understand it - call, email or write to the companies that you are boycotting. I promise that they'll understand.

 

[mountainclmbr]

I should be travelling to CA every other week for work. My company would like me to move there from Colorado. I make it there about every 2 months and am trying to make it none at all. When I am there I try to spend as little money as I can. I made it very clear to my company that I would move to N. Korea before I would consider moving to California. I also asked them why they were so interested in making me live in #@*! communist hell hole the last time they askesd. They have not broached the subject in a few months now. I still insult them every chance I get. Maybe not a career enhancer, but rubbing socialist noses in their own dung is fun as hell! I especially like to ask where they hid all the Stalin posters when I visit their offices.