Competing Claims

This made me laugh, of course some people say it doesn’t take much to make me laugh.
I was looking for the transcript of the oral arguments. Couldn’t find it yet but I did find the Amicus brief for the en banc hearing and before.
I read the Everytown for Gun Safety Amicus and found:

Everytown for Gun Safety is the largest gun-violence-prevention organization in the country. It has over 2.5 million supporters, including over 275,000 California residents and the mayors of over 50 California cities.

Okay….but earlier the Brady Bunch Campaign had filed also.

Amicus Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, non-profit organization dedicated to reducing gun violence through education, research, and legal advocacy

Now this filings are months apart and the wording is slightly different -so it is possible both are/were correct. But the numbers are very telling. US Census bureau reports the adult population of California is estimated to be 29,528,702 – so 275,000 supporters – that is 0.931% of the adult population (assuming that Everytown ONLY counts adults as supporters – which I would doubt). Not even a full percentage point of the population as supporters of the largest gun-violence organization.

Meanwhile in  state where most counties makes it darn difficult to get a Concealed Carry Permit – 52,521 people (per Calguns 2013 PDF Alert) have a permit. Oh, that is counting non-government personnel only. 0.177% of the adult population. So only 5 times as many people support Everytown as people who have actively and successfully gotten a carry permit.

Again this struck me as funny (as in Oh that is so sad) way.
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