Oregon Governor Kate Brown is Not The Smartest

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown tweeted that if the President asks for Troops for the border that she will say no.  She went on to say that she is "deeply troubled by Trump's plan to militarize our border,"

I guess she was lost in the woods when National Guard Troops were deployed to the border by Obama and Bush deployed the troops.  Maybe she was asleep when Bill Clinton did it.  I am sure it was concerning when Reagan did it.

Just amazes me how all of a sudden these Governors become all concerned.  Something that has been done by every President since and including Ronald Reagan has now become a concern by this Governor. 

You just can't fix Stupid.

Gun Laws Will Stop Mass Shootings? What Laws?

California is once again the proving ground for America.  As a state with some of the toughest gun laws, they are also the state with the most incidents of Mass Shootings.  According to the FBI, for an incident to be defined as a mass shooting, there has to be four or more people killed in a single incident not including the shooter.

According to a JSONLINE report in 2012 California led the way by a wide margin.  From 1976-2010 California had 85 incidents, Texas was second with 61 followed closely by another Strict Gun state of New York with 57.  See Article Click Here

Another Article by the LA Times in October of 2017 listed the most notable mass shootings 1984-2017. Below are shootings in California

LA Times:

San Francisco, CA - A UPS driver kills three coworkers and then himself at their San Francisco package facility using a stolen assault-style pistol, according to police. Police said 38-year-old Jimmy Lam began shooting at an employee meeting and targeted specific coworkers.

San Bernadino, CA - Two assailants killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. The two attackers, who were married, were killed in a gun battle with police. They were U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook and Pakistan national Tashfeen Malik, and had an arsenal of ammunition and pipe bombs in their Redlands home.

Isla Vista, CA - Elliot Rodger, 22, meticulously planned his deadly attack on the Isla Vista community for more than a year, spending thousands of dollars in order to arm and train himself to kill as many people as possible, according to a report released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. Rodger killed six people before shooting himself.

Santa Monica, CA -  John Zawahri, an unemployed 23-year-old, kills five people in an attack that starts at his father’s home and ends at Santa Monica College, where he is fatally shot by police in the school’s library.

Oakland, CA - One L. Goh, 43, a former student at a Oikos University, a small Christian college, allegedly opens fire in the middle of a classroom leaving seven people dead and three wounded.
Goh was charged with seven counts of murder with special circumstances and three counts of attempted murder. In a jailhouse interview with a San Francisco TV station shortly after the shooting, Goh said he was “deeply sorry” for his actions.

Seal Beach, CA - Scott Dekraai, 41, apparently enraged over a custody dispute, allegedly walks into a crowded Seal Beach hair salon where his former wife works and opens fire. Eight people are killed, including a man sitting in a truck outside the salon. Another person is critically wounded. Dekraai has pleaded not guilty in the case.

Goleta, CA - Jennifer San Marco, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, shot and killed six people at a mail processing plant in Goleta, Calif., on Jan. 30, 2006, before taking her own life.

San Francisco, CA - Gian Luigi Ferri, 55, kills eight people in an office building in San Francisco’s financial district. His rampage begins in the 34th-floor offices of Pettit & Martin, an international law firm, and ends in a stairwell between the 29th and 30th floors where he encounters police and shoots himself.

Olivehurst, CA - Eric Houston, a 20-year-old unemployed computer assembler, invades Lindhurst High School and opens fire, killing his former teacher Robert Brens and three students and wounding 10 others. He holds 85 students hostage for 8 1/2 hours before giving himself up.
Houston was convicted in July 1993 on four counts of murder. He is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

Stockton, CA -  Patrick Edward Purdy turns a powerful assault rifle on a crowded school playground, killing five children and wounding 29 more. Purdy, who also killed himself, had been a student at the school from kindergarten through third grade.
Police officials described Purdy as a troubled drifter in his mid-20s with a history of relatively minor brushes with the law. The midday attack lasted only minutes.

San Ysidro, CA -  James Oliver Huberty, a 41-year-old out-of-work security guard, kills 21 employees and customers at a McDonald’s restaurant. Huberty is fatally shot by a police sniper perched on the roof of a nearby post office.

I agree that there are some common sense laws that we need to look at and there are things that can be done.  However this major uproar about gun control is just noise and not going to solve the problem.  If gun control alone were the answer then California would have shown that decrease.

Both sides of this argument need to get off their soap boxes and quit thinking they are the only ones who are right.  It is going to take everyone working together and using common sense to solve this issue.