Anyone like to shoot?

[merolpn]

We live in CA, in one of those wonderful counties where the sheriff doesn't have to approve a CCW if he doesn't want to, but if I feel the need to carry concealed, I may anyway. The police obviously can't get here in time to protect us all, so I'm happy to count on myself and my family instead.

I agree. Nowehere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights does it state that any of the amendments are subject to government approval before a person can exercise a right. In fact, I would argue that if the founding fathers knew that the government would create a large standing army (which terrified them) and try to restrict the right to bear arms (which they felt very strongly about), it may have been written with much stronger wording. I think that in 1791 they figured what they wrote was strong enough.