This isn’t the day that basic math will save your life, but it is a day that basic math will explain the otherwise curious behavior of Los Angeles’ Sheriff Villanueva.
LA County Sheriff to Increase Concealed Permit Issuance by 400 Percent
By Awr Hawkins, 24 June 2020
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva revealed Wednesday his plans to increase the issuance of concealed carry permits by 400 percent.
Wow! 400 Percent! That’s a lot! I would not have expected that from a hardline liberal who’d just freed a lot of inmates… to get shot en flagrante? Is he black-knighting or something?
Getting a concealed carry permit in L.A. County has been difficult in past years, regardless of the sheriff in charge.
On February 14, 2013, Breitbart News reported that the carry permits may have been disproportionately given to friends and donors of Sheriff Lee Baca.
LA Weekly noted that people securing the hard-to-come-by permits included:
Emerson Glazer: the son of the man who developed the Del Amo Fashion Center mall in Torrance, gave Baca “basketball tickets and gift baskets..
Stan Shuster: the owner of a cigar room, gave Baca “shirts and golf balls..
Michael Yamaki: .is among Baca’s best friends..
George Chilingar: gave Baca $750 worth of Persian rugs.
Hollywood producer Arnold Kopelson: .gave Baca ballet tickets in 2004.
Singer James Darren: .gave Baca some CDs and a photograph..
Jeweler Nagapet Boyadgian: .gave Baca a $500 contribution in 2010..
Arthur Kassel: .hosted a birthday party for Baca..
On December 26, 2017, Breitbart News reported that an audit by the California State Auditor showed there were only 197 concealed carry permit holders in Los Angeles county. At that time the county had a population of 10.2 million, and only 197 of those residents were permitted to carry a handgun for self-defense.
I remember Baca as being pay-to-play corrupt but not actively treasonous.
Wait a minute. 197 CCW permits… 400 percent more… is… 985 CCW permits in a city of 10,200,000. That’s not enough permits even for all the atheist Jew Hollywood millionaires in Los Angeles. Bodyguard Lives Matter!
But in the current climate, where residents feel endangered in their neighborhoods and where rioters set fire to police vehicles in the street, Sheriff Villanueva is making clear he plans on increasing the issuance of concealed carry permits.
The current climate of lawlessness has nothing to do with his decision. Make it 500,000% more CCW permits (total of 985k) and then we’ll be talking.
Fox LA.s Bill Melugin tweeted: .L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he expects to begin increasing the amount of concealed carry permits he issues by as much as 400%. CCWs are notoriously difficult to obtain in LA..
Return to your lives, citizens. Nothing has changed.
A good example of how statistics can be true, highly deceitful and highly inflammatory, all at the same time.
If the news media were interested in honest reporting, they could have stated that CCW permits would be increased 400%, which would raise the usage of these permits from 0.002% of the population to < 0.01% of the population. Or, it would be easier to just say that, after the increase, the total usage of permits would still be under 0.01% of the population.
They need to increase that by at least 100x. Once you get to the point where 2 or 3% of the population has a permit, then you "might" have 1% of any large group carrying at that specific time/event. And thus there being some deterrent against shooting up a school, theater, church or whatever public event.