07-06-2015, 12:42 PM
The courts have held that states can basically do what they want when it comes to guns, as long as it does not violate the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. The challenges happen as they should, and get decided along the way.
California has strict gun control laws and has had them for a long time. Handgun or long gun, I believe you have to register both, and also need a permit to purchase them. There is a 10 day waiting period for purchases. Magazines can not hold more than 10 round of ammunition. On top of these restrictions, places like LA and SF are even tougher places to own a gun - basically not issuing permits to most citizens.
Yet given all that, an illegal immigrant who's been deported x5, living in a sanctuary city (SF) that refuses to follow the law, still found a way to get a gun and kill someone. And in LA alone through June there were 194 people killed by guns - 88% of them young black or hispanic.
The largest driver of gun violence is a cultural and socioeconomic problem. While I'm for background checks for all purchases/transfers and don't mind waiting periods, and consider myself a pretty reasonable/rational gun owner, neither of these things will likely reduce or stem any of the statistically dominant causes of gun homicide and violence.
California has strict gun control laws and has had them for a long time. Handgun or long gun, I believe you have to register both, and also need a permit to purchase them. There is a 10 day waiting period for purchases. Magazines can not hold more than 10 round of ammunition. On top of these restrictions, places like LA and SF are even tougher places to own a gun - basically not issuing permits to most citizens.
Yet given all that, an illegal immigrant who's been deported x5, living in a sanctuary city (SF) that refuses to follow the law, still found a way to get a gun and kill someone. And in LA alone through June there were 194 people killed by guns - 88% of them young black or hispanic.
The largest driver of gun violence is a cultural and socioeconomic problem. While I'm for background checks for all purchases/transfers and don't mind waiting periods, and consider myself a pretty reasonable/rational gun owner, neither of these things will likely reduce or stem any of the statistically dominant causes of gun homicide and violence.