California is the most gun-controlled state in the nation. There are others who are vying for the title, such as New York and New Jersey, just to name a couple, but no one is quite where the state of California is.
And, of course, we’ve been told by some that we need California-style gun control throughout the nation because it works so well.
For the record, I’ve never heard an anti-gun voice decry anything that particular state has done with guns. For all their “we just want ‘common sense’ gun control'” nonsense, they’ve never blinked at the dumber and dumber laws the state has passed over the years.
And how well has it worked? Well…you tell me.
A gunman who critically wounded two kindergartners at a tiny religious school in Northern California was mentally ill and believed by targeting children he was carrying out “counter-measures” in response to America’s involvement in Middle East violence, a sheriff said Thursday.
Glenn Litton used a “ruse” of pretending to enroll a fictitious grandson to gain entry to the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Oroville, Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea said during a news conference.
Litton used a handgun to shoot two kindergarten boys, ages 5 and 6, who remained in critical condition Thursday, the sheriff said. Litton then used the weapon — a so-called ghost gun, which is difficult for investigators to trace — to kill himself just yards from the school’s playground.
While Honea said Litton, 56, also had a lengthy criminal history — mostly theft and identity theft — authorities said they did not find any violent crimes on his record.
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It was the latest among dozens of school shootings around the U.S. in recent years, including especially deadly ones in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas. The shootings have set off fervent gun control debates and frayed the nerves of parents whose children have grown accustomed to doing active shooter drills in their classrooms.
But the shootings have done little to move the needle on national gun laws. Firearms were the leading cause of death among children in 2020 and 2021, according to KFF, a nonprofit that researches health care issues.
Yet let’s remember that California has numerous gun control laws, including restrictions on so-called ghost guns. You can make one, but you have to get a serial number from the state, while Litton didn’t. Moreover, he couldn’t legally make one because of his criminal status and, potentially, his mental illness.
See, what we said every time these other shootings sparked calls for gun control–the reason “the shootings have done little to move the needle on national gun laws”–is because these are the kinds of people who aren’t going to be deterred by gun control laws.
This is a man who reportedly wanted to target small children. That kind of evil can’t be stopped. The best you could do is force him to potentially use another weapon, but do you think the damage would have been less if he’d only had a knife available to him? A car?
Of course not. It’s entirely possible the damage would have been worse. More kids may have been hurt and some might have been killed in that case, but somehow, that never makes it into the discussions.
No, all we’re going to hear is how we need gun control.
Yet California has it. It’s got literally everything people want at the national level, and just how much good did it do? Not a blasted thing.
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