Should All Sacramento Residents Be Strapped - If Law Enforcement Cant Provide Protection?

Should we all be strapped if the people we pay to protect our lives and property can't do it? Anybody that knows me. knows I believe you should at least have a shotgun for home protection. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.....feel me?

Gun Shops In Sacramento County Struggle To Keep Stock

John Barrett, owner of Badger John's, told KCRA 3 that since news began to spread that more than 200 deputies could be laid-off due to budget cuts, the number of residents coming into his store has risen noticeably."People are coming in and saying, 'I want to buy a gun today,'" Barrett said. "We're specifically seeing people say, 'I want it because I'm not going to be able to get the protection that I need from the sheriff's department.'"

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The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects a right to keep and bear arms from infringement by the federal government, including federal enclaves and Washington, D.C.^[1] The American Bar Association has described this right as among the most controversial of the rights codified in the Bill of Rights.^[2]

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an outright ban by the federal government on the personal possession, at home, of an operable firearm, such as a handgun, violates the Second Amendment.^[3] The Court has upheld the constitutionality of longstanding restrictions on the personal possession of firearms, including handguns.^[3]