Hey Gavin Newsom Here Why Gun Laws In California Have Failed

In 2021, when federal Judge Roger Benitez struck down California’s “assault weapons” ban, he concluded that the state’s experts, who summarized the existing research, could not provide any evidence that the prohibition reduced any type of violent crime.

False Statistics Fly As California Democrats Push For Gun Control Laws That Failed Already: After Friday’s mass public shooting in Israel that left seven people dead, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced: “Firearm licensing will be expedited and expanded in order to enable thousands of additional citizens to carry weapons.” By contrast, after the three public shootings over the last two weekends in California, the verdict from Democrats is that we need even more gun control laws. President Joe Biden and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., used the attacks to call for a renewed federal assault weapons ban. California’s other Democrat senator, Alex Padilla, called for expanded federal background checks on gun purchases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- California already has the strictest gun control laws in the country, and it has both of those laws and many more. In contrast to Israel and almost all the rest of the United States, concealed handgun permits have been almost impossible to get in the counties where California’s attacks occurred. In Los Angeles County, where two of the attacks occurred, there is only one permit for every 5,660 adults. In San Mateo County, where another attack occurred, there is one permit per every 24,630 adults. By contrast, in the 43 right-to-carry states, there is one permit holder for every nine people. When Americans are allowed to carry permitted concealed handguns, they stop about half the active shooting attacks in the U.S. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evaluating the Current Approach: Before doubling down on yet more gun control and making the rest of the country like California, let’s first ask ourselves how the current approach has worked out. Even some Democrats in California are calling for a re-evaluation. “California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, but look at what we just had today,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna acknowledged after the Monterey Park attack. “I can tell you this — the status quo is not working. We need to re-examine what we are doing, and what may work better.” https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/02/false-statistics-fly-as-california-democrats-push-for-gun-control-laws-that-failed-already/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- California Has More Than 100 Gun Laws. Why Don’t They Stop More Mass Shootings? SACRAMENTO — California bans guns for domestic violence offenders. It bans them for people deemed a danger to others or themselves. There is a ban on large-capacity magazines, and a ban on noise-muffling silencers. Semiautomatic guns of the sort colloquially known as “assault weapons” are, famously, banned. More than 100 gun laws — the most of any state — are on the books in California. They have saved lives, policymakers say: Californians have among the lowest rates of gun death in the United States. Yet this month, those laws failed to stop the massacres of at least 19 people in back-to-back mass shootings. The tragedies in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay have confounded Americans who regard California as a best-case bastion of gun safety in a nation awash with firearms. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/california-gun-laws-mass-shootings.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Most Gun Laws Aren’t Backed Up By Evidence: In the first month of 2023, 25 people lost their lives in four mass shootings in California over just eight days. It’s a grim statistic, made all the more distressing when you consider the fact that California has one of the lowest gun death rates in the entire country. This is what a safe state looks like. California also has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. And in the aftermath of those four mass shootings, new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — who represents a district in southern California — took the opportunity to poke at the state’s firearms restrictions, saying in a press conference that federal gun control legislation would not be an automatic response to these tragedies because such laws “apparently … did not work in this situation.” So, did California’s gun laws succeed at making it one of the safest states … or did they fail to stop a string of mass shootings? Questions about the efficacy of gun laws have gotten easier to answer in recent years as changes to federal policy have helped to bring money and people back to the field of gun violence research. But decades of neglect mean there are still lots of blank spaces — policies that don’t yet have good quality data backing them up. A recent report from the Rand Corporation that reviewed the evidence behind a variety of gun policies found just three that were supported by evidence that met the report’s quality standards.1https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/absence-of-evidence-gun-laws/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- California mass shooting: Gun laws in the state are stricter than in the rest of US, but are they enough? A gunman went on a rampage in California’s Monterey Park on Sunday, killing 10 people during Chinese New Year celebrations. This is despite the state having some of the strictest gun laws in the US including a ban on semi-automatic rifles and restrictions on the sale of high-capacity magazines.America once again saw a mass shooting on Sunday during Lunar New Year celebrations in California’s Monterey Park, a majority Asian-American city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. The mass shooting, one of the deadliest in California’s recent history, claimed the lives of 10 people — five men and five women. The gunman, now identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, was later found dead inside a white van. Police say he shot and killed himself inside the white van that police officers had surrounded earlier. Investigators in the case are yet to ascertain the motive behind the shooting, but in a press conference they said that they found several guns, including a semi-automatic pistol in the suspect’s van. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- California’s strict anti-gun laws This brings the issue of gun laws in California — which according to advocacy groups is ranked as the top state in the nation for gun safety. The American state is among those with the lowest firearms mortality rates in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It ranked seventh lowest nationwide with 8.5 deaths per 100,000 people in 2020 — well below the nationwide average of 13.7Many believe that California’s progressive leadership is the reason why it is so tough on guns. Today, California has some of the strictest laws when it comes to firearms; there are mandatory waiting periods and background checks for firearm purchases in the state. The state also bans so-called military-style assault weapons, and, in 2016, it became one of the first states to pass a red-flag law, which permits authorities to remove firearms from someone believed to be a danger to themselves or others. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/monterey-park-shooting-california-gun-laws-america-violence-12030782.html