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Santa Clara County to fund team to remove guns from dangerous residents

Original post made on Feb 27, 2020

Santa Clara County will spend nearly a half million dollars on a county gun team in charge of removing guns from people deemed dangerous, the county's Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.


Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, February 27, 2020, 1:50 PM

Comments (7)

Posted by Steve Old Town
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Feb 27, 2020 at 4:04 pm

Now if only they would fund a team to remove dangerous and incompetent politicians


Posted by More bureaucracy
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Feb 27, 2020 at 4:20 pm

So they need a team of lawyers and crime analysts to solve this alleged problem. How will they take away guns? Will they use people with guns to take away guns from people? Interesting


Posted by Alex
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Feb 27, 2020 at 5:08 pm

Hang on there, Tex! You guys apparently can't read.

The article says explicitly that the task force is "tasked with identifying persons with domestic violence convictions and temporary restraining orders who are no longer lawfully allowed to own guns, making sure they don't have guns."

That is, people who have already violated the gun law.

Will people with guns take away the guns? Yes, they will. The article further says "...and, if necessary, obtaining search warrants". So the people who will possibly take away the guns are the police, who usually have guns.

You folks really should just recognize that there are some gun owners who are not responsible, like you guys are. Unrestrained guns in the hands of people who are not responsible are deadly weapons.

Is that hard to understand?


Posted by Guns harm 11 for every instance of self defense
a resident of Monta Loma
on Feb 27, 2020 at 6:10 pm

Guns in the home are 11 times more likely to harm someone in the home than be used in self defense.


Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Feb 28, 2020 at 12:05 pm

"insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense ..." 2nd Amendment "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State ..."

I think a lot of domestic Tranquity can be provided by these types of arms control regulations. Just the state, in it's duty to "well regulate" it's Militia to exclude gun bearing unstable people.


Posted by Jim Neal
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Feb 29, 2020 at 4:10 pm

Guns harm 11 for every instance of self defense.... therefore we must make sure that NO ONE can use guns for self-defense anymore! Makes sense!



Jim Neal
Modesto, CA
(Formerly Old Mountain View)


Posted by Gary
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Feb 29, 2020 at 8:48 pm

The police can decide to check on persons prohibited from having a gun under a restraining order. Why is a team needed? And what crimes are being committed by persons subject to restraining orders? Gang-bangers are seldom subjected to restraining orders.


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