Constitutional Law
Jun. 21, 2016
Passively tolerating preventable mayhem
Powerful forces will no doubt support the Peruta plaintiffs in their reasonable, but misdirected, quest to fix our sights on the proper contours of the constitutional right to bear arms.
William Slomanson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Email: bills@tjsl.edu
William Slomanson is also the author of California Procedure in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2014).
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court's Heller case held that the public has a right to have guns at home for self-defense. In 2009, Edward Peruta was the lead plaintiff, along with gun rights activist groups, who sued the San Diego and Yolo County Sheriff's Departments when the sheriffs denied requests for concealed weapons permits. But the federal trial judges agreed with the defendants' policy prohibiting the public from carrying concealed weapons absent "good cause."
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