Our own Jim March creating a BIG stink re: CA CCW!!! MUST READ!

[Langenator]

Jim, if you're going to go through looking for names like Gomez, Martinez, Rodriguez, etc...it wouldn't be that much more work to run the same process looking for Le, Kim, Wong, Chin, Kobayashi, Nomura, Tran, etc. Asians should be just as easy to find by their last name as Latinos.

 

[Jim March]

Langenator: yes, except the Asians are mostly in the urban areas and don't make up a large percentage of the county's population.

Then, because the urban counties issue so few permits, doing accurate stats is borderline impossible.

With Hispanics, it's a whole different ballgame. Most are in rural counties up and down the central valley between Sacramento and the Mexican border. They make up as much as 72% of the county's population (Imperial County) and seldom less than 25%, so when they hardly turn up at all in the permitholder rosters, the differences are impossible to dismiss.

Worse, since minorities in general tend to show up in local government employment of some type, sometimes in the DA's office, Judges, or others who can usually score, and in urban areas those types dominate the permit rosters, you get what APPEARS to be less racial discrimination - until you look at cross-county comparisons such as the "black stats" I did at http://www.equalccw.com/ccwdata.html

In other words, the less issuance there is, the more difficult to prove racism WITHIN that county's borders, which is what name-analysis gets you. And with the Asians mixed into high-pop, low-issuance areas, the stats are probably THERE but nothing shocking.

 

[Daniel T]

Is this Mike Haas person officially associated with the NRA?

 

[Jim March]

Mike Haas is the President of the West Contra Costa NRA Member's Council. He also acts as the state NRA's "chief technology guy" on a volunteer basis, maintains various websites such as www.nramemberscouncils.com and www.nrawinningteam.com and moderates the invitation-only NRA state mailing list. His moderation of that latter has been described as "iron fisted" by a number of folks.

He is an unpaid volunteer last I heard.

He is part of the "zero dissent" movement within the state NRA MC system, a strong supporter of Paul Payne's management of that system. To his credit, I've seen Mike fail to play ball with Fairfax (NRA HQ) once when they backed Dan Lungren for Governor in '98. THAT was something worthy of revolt .

A few points here:

1) NRA state lobyist Ed Worley is VERY good at playing defense on bad bills, probably the best we'll ever see. A true master, and I don't mean that sarcastically, it's a necessary thing.

2) By cracking down on "dissent" within the MC system, Haas and Payne have (mostly) kept it together when every other state's MC system was abandoned (de-chartered by Fairfax) for playing sides during the endless Knox vs. LaPierre struggles or over policy issues. By keeping the MC system together ('cept for some notable breakaway chapters), lines of communication between the chapters and Ed Worley were preserved. That allows Ed to tell the MC system which legicritters to target with phone calls, faxes and letters, resulting in "precision bombing campaigns" that are highly effective.

Where I disagree is in Ed's/Paul's decision to play sides for the state GOP in support for their help blocking new gun control. They abandoned ME when I started going after crooked GOP sheriffs and it all started when I explained the problem back around February to a high-level GOP strategist who I won't name because it doesn't matter.

Ed is betting that he can hold the line well enough with the GOP's support to wait it out and see the GOP back in control.

I want to attack *now* in court, play hell with the crooked top cops of BOTH parties, and be seen as non-partisan by the Dems and able to work with 'em. And I've got another card up my sleeve for the Dems I can't talk about yet.

 

[Daniel T]

Thanks for that info, Jim.

I'll still have to think about whether I'll still support the NRA if they are going to associate with people like this. His vicious and specious attacks on you are unfounded at best.

Continue the good fight Jim, you are doing extremely well.

 

[Mute]

Thanks Jim. If you need anything done in the L.A. area, let me know.

 

[Frohickey]

NRA is a good outfit, at least when it comes to gun safety and gun marksmanship.
Somehow, the NRA-ILA has seen fit to be seen as the only 2nd amendment advocacy group, or it would like to the be only one, and that chaff people like Mike Haas when normal ordinary Americans take it upon themselves to regain the rights that have been compromised away in years past.

I wonder how the MC in California is doing? I remember getting an email from some person trying to get the MC in Silicon Valley back up after the original Silicon Valley NRA MC deaffiliated themselves from the NRA.

 

[Art Eatman]

Demise, regardless of any internal-politicking problems in California's chapters of the NRA, the national organization should be judged in light of its overall efforts and accomplishments.

Since you're in Texas, I strongly recommend that you join the Texas State Rifle Association. Probably find info at McBride's guns, 30th & N. Lamar.

, Art

 

[Daniel T]

Art, you are probably right about the NRA in general.

As far as the TSRA goes, I've already made room in my budget to the membership fee. I'm suprised that they don't have a booth out front at the Saxet show, though. Does the NRA have an exclusive deal with Saxet that squeezes out the TSRA, or does it just cost too much?

I've been to McBride's many times, but do most of my purchasing from other places. It does act as a nice museum where you get to fondle the displays though.