Mexifornia Gun Laws at Work: 3 Denny's Shootings in 3 Days

[TSawyer2112]

Calif. Denny's Chain Sees Another Shooting

Mar 18, 10:18 AM (ET)

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A gunman opened fire at a Denny's restaurant, killing one man and seriously wounding another, police said. It was the third fatal shooting in as many days at a Denny's in Southern California.
The latest shooting happened early Friday outside a Denny's near Angel Stadium after a fight broke out between two large groups of people who had been in the restaurant, said Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim Police Department...Entire Article (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060318/D8GE29OO0.html)Perhaps Mexifornia needs to have a three day waiting period and background check for who those who want to enter a Denny's. What might work even better is for the state to start a Denny's by-back program. Instead of serving up Big Slams, they could pass out cardboard boxes, condoms, clean hypodermic needles and "medical" marijuana. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy just thinking about it.

[Wolfcounsel]

California's gun laws DO work! Look at all the people who could not defend themselves because they were not allowed firearms except for the bad guys. Isn't that what the dumbasses who made this law wanted?

[Beowulf]

California's gun laws DO work! Look at all the people who could not defend themselves because they were not allowed firearms except for the bad guys. Isn't that what the dumbasses who made this law wanted?

But...but...it's wrong to fight back! Someone might get hurt! The gunmen may have mental issues or have come from a bad upbringing or something.

California, Massholechusetts, New York all have the same line of thinking, "take em' from responsible people and no one gets hurt!"

Oh yeah, and it's a violation of a Mexican's civil rights to take his gun away, remember? :rolleyes:

[Republican_Legion]

In Orange County you can get 'concealed gun permits' unlike other California counties that have extremely gun-grabby policys.
Anaheim is a republican city.
Politics

<TABLE style="BORDER-RIGHT: #aaa 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #aaa 1px solid; FONT-SIZE: 95%; MARGIN: 1em 1em 1em 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #aaa 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #aaa 1px solid; POSITION: relative; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 align=right border=2><CAPTION>Presidential elections results</CAPTION><TBODY><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TH>Year</TH><TH>GOP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOP)</TH><TH>Dems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29)</TH></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_2004)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>59.7% 641,832</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>39.0% 419,239</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_2000)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>55.8% 541,299</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>40.4% 391,819</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1996 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1996)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>51.7% 446,717</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>37.9% 327,485</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1992)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>43.9% 426,613</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>31.6% 306,930</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1988 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1988)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>67.7% 586,230</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>31.1% 269,013</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1984 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1984)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>74.7% 635,013</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>24.3% 206,272</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1980 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1980)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>67.9% 529,797</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>22.6% 176,704</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1976 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1976)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>62.2% 408,632</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>35.3% 232,246</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1972 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1972)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>68.3% 448,291</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>26.9% 176,847</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1968)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>63.1% 314,905</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>29.9% 148,869</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1964 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1964)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>55.9% 224,196</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>44.0% 176,539</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1960)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>60.8% 174,891</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>38.9% 112,007</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1956 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1956)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>67.4% 113,510</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>32.6% 54,895</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>1952 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1952)</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#fff3f3>70.4% 77,548</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#f0f0ff>29.6% 32,530</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Orange County has long been known as a Republican stronghold and has consistently sent Republican representatives to the state and federal legislatures. Republican majorities in Orange County helped deliver California's electoral votes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College) to Republican presidential candidates Richard Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon) (1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960) and 1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968)), Gerald Ford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford) (1976 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976)), Ronald Reagan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan) in (1980 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980) and 1984 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984)) and George H. W. Bush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush) in (1988 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988)). Orange County has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 landslide re-election. Although Democrats have made inroads in the northern end of the county since the mid-1980s, Orange County politics are still dominated by Republicans. Five of the County's six U.S. Representatives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives), four of its five State Senators (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate) and seven of its nine State Assembly members (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly) are Republicans, as are four of the five members of the County Board of Supervisors.
According to the California Secretary of State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Secretary_of_State), as of September 2003 Orange County had 1,349,988 registered voters. Of these registered voters, 48.59% are registered Republican, 31.18% are registered Democrat, 16.07% declined to state, and the remaining 4.16% are registered with minor political parties.
Orange County produced such notable Republicans as President Richard Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon) (born in Yorba Linda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorba_Linda) and lived in San Clemente (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Clemente)), U.S. Senator John F. Seymour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Seymour) (previously mayor of Anaheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim)), U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuchel) (of Anaheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim%2C_California)), U.S. Rep. James Utt (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Utt&action=edit) (of Santa Ana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana%2C_California)), U.S. Rep. Robert Badham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Badham) (of Newport Beach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Beach%2C_California)), U.S. Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Dannemeyer) (of Fullerton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton%2C_California)). Former U.S. Rep. Chris Cox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cox) (of Newport Beach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Beach%2C_California)) is currently chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission). The county has produced relatively few prominent Republicans in state government, although in 1996 Curt Pringle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Pringle) (currently mayor of Anaheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim)) became the first Republican-elected Speaker of the California Assembly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly) in decades.
Since the 1990s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s), the growth of the Hispanic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_American) population—and reaction to the divisive campaign tactics of former state governor Pete Wilson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wilson)—have softened the county's staunch Republicanism. In the landmark 1996 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996) election, Democrat Loretta Sanchez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Sanchez) defeated veteran Republican U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dornan) and has held the seat ever since. Republicans have responded by making more explicit efforts to court the Hispanic vote. As more immigrants and Democrats settle in Orange County, there are signs that the longtime Republican (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29) monopoly is beginning to falter. Democrats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29) such as U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Boxer) and Dianne Feinstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein), Governor Gray Davis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis), and Democratic Presidential (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States) candidates, have thus fared better in the county recently - although those gains ended in the 2004 elections. In 2004 U.S. President George W. Bush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) captured 60% of the county's vote, up from 56% in 2000 (despite a higher Democratic popular vote in the county), and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Boxer), though she won statewide, lost in Orange County to Republican Bill Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Jones), 43% to 51%. Still the 39% John Kerry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry) received is higher than the percentage Bill Clinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton) won in both 1992 and 1996 and Barbara Boxer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Boxer), a stalwart liberal, did much better here than she did in 1998. Democratics get strong showings in only three of the counties cities, Santa Ana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana%2C_California), the county seat, Laguna Woods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Woods), a retirement community, and Laguna Beach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Beach) perhaps the county's most famous city, due to it's large gay and lesbian population and socially liberal residents. The rest of the county still leans Republican, including Anaheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim) and Newport Beach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Beach).
The county features prominently in the book Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right by Lisa McGirr. She argues that the County's rightward orientation in the 20th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century) owed much to its settlement by Midwestern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest) transplants, who reacted strongly to communist sympathies and the turmoil of the 1960s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s) in nearby Los Angeles—across the "Orange Curtain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Curtain)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County%2C_California#Politics

[DeclinetoState]

16.07% (of 1,349,988 registered voters) declined to state

216,943.072 DeclinetoState's in Orange County? Yippee!

[jayson]

I live in Pismo Beach, so this is kinda a shocker. I don't watch the local news because it, well, sucks, and I found this out from a friend. It's morons like these who are bound to get our right to bear arms (someday in the future it WILL happen) taken away in the name of security. If you look around, your rights are being stolen DAILY in the name of security.

That being said, I always eat at IHOP. :-D

[jayson]

In Orange County you can get 'concealed gun permits' unlike other California counties that have extremely gun-grabby policys.

Not all, RL. My county, San Luis Obispo county, hands the permits out happily in hopes to reduce crime... And we are a fairly liberal county. While we tend to mostly vote Republican, our bad egg is San Luis Obispo itself. It houses California Polytechnic State University, which has turned very liberal in the last 20 years. We recently had an "art showing" asking "what is marriage, anyway?" Which showed a man in a tux holding hands with a man in a gown in front of a preacher (these were manequins by the way), as well as a man with a dog in a gown, as well. Anyways, sorry to go off on tangents, but yes, we have them too, and they are good. :thumb:

[Republican_Legion]

Not all, RL. My county, San Luis Obispo county, hands the permits out happily in hopes to reduce crime... And we are a fairly liberal county. While we tend to mostly vote Republican, our bad egg is San Luis Obispo itself. It houses California Polytechnic State University, which has turned very liberal in the last 20 years. We recently had an "art showing" asking "what is marriage, anyway?" Which showed a man in a tux holding hands with a man in a gown in front of a preacher (these were manequins by the way), as well as a man with a dog in a gown, as well. Anyways, sorry to go off on tangents, but yes, we have them too, and they are good. :thumb:

Well according to 2004 statistics your county is also one of the GOP voting countys in california along with san diego, riverside, san bernardino and a few others.

I really dont think arnold is gonna win re-election. His appointment of a former gray davis advisor and his pork proposals along with other stuff he has done is likely to weaken the morale of GOP voters in the state.

[Republican_Legion]

16.07% (of 1,349,988 registered voters) declined to state

216,943.072 DeclinetoState's in Orange County? Yippee!

My dad is non-partisan....he's one of 16.07% lol.

[DeclinetoState]

Hello, son!

(Just kidding.)

Regarding Cal Poly-SLO, what does art with two men getting hitched have to do with a polytechnic institution anyway? I know "poly" means many; does polytechnic include many sexual techniques or what?

[Kathy29]

Your rights aren't being stolen in the name of security.
Your rights are being stolen in the name of equality.

It is a twisted and bizarre equality, a perversion of equality that is only confused. It's equality on Alzheimers. In the world of equality the law abiding citizen is equal to the worst criminal. The worst criminal is entitled to the same rights as the law abiding citizen. In the perversion of equality, a Norwegian grandmother hailing from Minnesota, in a wheelchair and two prosthesis arms is as likely a terrorist as that young man from the middle east wearing a parka in August, in St. Petersburg, Florida.

No. It's not security. It's equality.

[DesertFox]

Excellent points, Kathy. Radical egalitarianism.