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Gun management legal guidelines are
already on the books
Responding to a different gun management screed from George Skelton of the Los Angeles Occasions, his assertion “(different states’) residents can carry weapons into California which can be unlawful to promote right here” is true just for the so-called “off roster handguns” which can be in any other case authorized to personal right here. If the firearm is unlawful to own in California, the relevant permits should be obtained earlier than bringing them into California.
One other of his assertions, “we are able to store throughout the border,” just isn't true, as a result of it's unlawful below each federal (18 USC §922) and California regulation (PC27585) until the out-of-state supplier ships the firearm to a California FFL supplier, which makes the transaction no completely different than an extraordinary in-state transaction for the reason that 10-day wait and Division of Justice background checks apply.
Skelton ought to rejoice. There are legal guidelines already on the books overlaying his considerations.
David Desiderio
Alameda
Limiting hid carry
is a knee-jerk response
The governor and legislators are once more proposing to restrict gun violence by making it tougher for a citizen to acquire a allow to hold a hid weapon. Their try is a knee-jerk response to the current tragedies in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, however their logic is flawed. It hasn’t been reported that both shooter had permits, so there isn't a hyperlink between this violence and CCW permits.
The method for acquiring a allow is rigorous: legitimate identification; proof of residency; two character reference letters; LiveScan of prints despatched to the FBI; eight hours of classroom coaching on the authorized necessities of allow holders; and eight hours of firearm coaching. It’s not a simple course of, and it’s costly.
One should be dedicated to looking for approval to hold a hid firearm. And lastly, one wonders what number of would have died just lately, had one individual there had a CCW.
Phil Scordelis
Harmony
Kudos to high school for
racial slur apology
Re. “San Ramon Valley apologizes for racial slur aimed toward Dublin basketball participant,” Jan. 25:
I want to applaud San Ramon Valley’s Principal Whitney Cottrell and her administration for writing a really cogent e mail and response to the unsportsmanlike conduct displayed on the boys’ basketball recreation towards Dublin Excessive. I additionally applaud the daddy of the offended participant for bringing it to the Bay Space Information Group in order that the incident and actions could possibly be seen by your complete group who're concerned in athletics in any respect ranges.
As a long-time coach and highschool athletic director in San Jose, member of the Blossom Valley League’s Honor the Sport program and Central Coast Part’s Sportsmanship Committee, I do know that it takes a village to embrace, educate and protect the rules of respect and sportsmanship, however it's effectively definitely worth the effort.
Barbara Uchiyama
San Jose
Police coaching lacking
social/emotional aspect
In gentle of the current protection of Tyre Nichols’ beating and subsequent demise, I heard a information interview with a retired police officer. He mentioned there's a lacking aspect in police coaching that isn't being addressed. He referred to it because the “social/emotional” issue.
Since my background is in human growth, I'm conversant in what is called the social/emotional or psychosocial area of growth. All through our youngest years and into maturity, our social/emotional progress is essential to the success of our interactions. It encompasses all the things from making mates to adjusting our temperaments for self-control.
Additional, these educated on subjects of implicit bias, structural racism and de-escalation, have knowledgeable us that the coaching, supervision and tradition of police departments throughout our nation want to vary.
Add to that “social/emotional” schooling and we would simply have the ability to flip round this poisonous tradition.
Sharon Brown
Retired Baby Improvement Educator
Walnut Creek
Costume codes meant
to advertise studying
Re. “Why are faculties nonetheless utilizing costume codes to discriminate towards women?” Web page A7, Jan. 31:
In case you haven’t observed there’s a distinction between girls and boys, and that’s not a foul factor. Boys are visible beings who turn into simply distracted by what women are sporting, or not sporting; not so with women. They will make a alternative to decorate inappropriately, however don’t complain about undesirable advances by boys. That’s what boys do. I’m at all times appalled by mother and father who let their daughters put on a few of the outfits I’ve seen.
“The emphasis on women’ outfits is harming the educational setting”? Say what? To me, what’s harming the educational setting are the distractions that tank tops, brief shorts, low-cut tops, and many others., current to adolescent boys.
Faculty is for schooling and ought to be taken critically and respectfully. That may’t occur and not using a correct costume code.
Kim Crow
Danville