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I am writing to you because I am greatly concerned by the trend 
of current legislation, in particular unreasoned anti-gun legislation.

I am sure that you are as bothered by violent crimes as I am, 
and we both want to reduce and eliminate them.

The problem is that good legislation has to be focused on the real 
problem, or it will 'miss the target'. Current legislation is missing 
the target now. Shallow analysis is producing solutions before the real 
cause of the problem is determined. Bandaid solutions.

We have kids who are disturbed, and who do not get help, mislead by 
media sensationalism and publicity, who take guns and knives and bombs 
to school to solve problems. The kids are disturbed. The media 
exacerbates the problem by showing biased sensational news.

 All the desperate actions these people take are already illegal, but 
legislators do not seem to understand the current laws, so they keep 
passing more and more restrictive laws, never enforcing the ones that 
already exist, never determining and fixing the real problem.

In the areas with the most serious and restrictive anti guns laws, we 
always find the highest rate of crime. Anti gun legislation and 
regulation is aimed at honest citizens, not at criminals. The criminals 
get guns illegally, on the street. Criminals do not go to gun dealers 
and go through the process of legally buying them under existing laws.

Honest citizens do not do drive by shootings. Honest citizens do not 
take guns to schools. Honest citizens do not shoot people.

Well intentioned legislators have created gun laws in California that 
are so complex and so unclear that everyone, including the Department of 
Justice, disagrees on what they mean. Many are so poorly crafted, so 
unprofessionally made, that they do not stand up to the test of the 
courts.

Meanwhile, we have roads that are obsolete and deteriorating with no 
plan for resolving the problems, and a legislated power screwup that has 
made our state famous for being screwed up, and is costing us billions.

What we need is for officials to stop and think, to clearly identify the 
real root cause of problems and fix the cause, not the symptoms. Stop
the layered approach to legislature. Less laws, more and better 
thinking, better laws. The last few years have been an embarrassment.

Please do not support AB35. We really need a better and less burdensome 
plan. We deserve better.

Bob Crownfield
Rancho Palos Verdes

Crownfield@Home.com