California Correctional Peace Officers Ass'n v. Department of Corrections

*1341KOLKEY, J.

I respectfully dissent. The majority’s construction of Penal Code section 120211 oversteps our constitutional role to construe statutes as they are, and not rewrite them as we speculate they might be. Despite rules of statutory construction against repeals by implication, and a specific legislative directive to honor the permanent firearm ban in the event of a statutory conflict, the majority today disregards that directive and judicially repeals the permanent ban on firearm possession imposed by two separate statutes on those convicted of violating section 246—which makes it a…