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AP Says California’s Extreme Gun Control Failed

Monday, 7 December 2015, 16:00 MJA Uncategorized 19

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BigJournalism: On December 6 the Associated Press pointed out that California’s aggressive gun control laws–expanded background checks, heavy regulations on “assault weapons,” and other regulations–all proved impotent to stop the San Bernardino terror attacks.

Breitbart News previously reported that the expanded background checks failed to make a difference, yet Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and other Democrats responded to the San Bernardino attacks by pushing to expand background checks in every state.  more here

19 Comments on AP Says California’s Extreme Gun Control Failed

  3. That’s not what Zippy says…he says we need expanded background checks, closing the gun show loophole and wait……Cali already has that! Look over there! A squirrel!

  4. I waited in a long line this morning as my local gun store chain opened. The staff was griping because they had to stay two hours late on Sunday. I have no doubt that I will be more thoroughly vetted on my back ground check than that Allah snackbar chick from Pakistan.

  13. If you want a gun, you can get a gun. The gun genie left the bottle decades ago, and many sources estimate that there are 75 to 100 million AK 47s alone in the world. Even in California, I know several felons who possess guns, and possession by a convicted felon has been illegal for a long, long time. In fact, some of these felons possess guns which, in and of themselves, are illegal under California law.

    Liberals want to ban all guns. It won’t work. I don’t think a gun ban really works in the UK and Australia, but the liberals can pretend all they want. A gun ban presumes that everyone will turn in their guns, but only law abiding citizens will do that. Anyone who wants a gun badly enough will get one – ban or no ban.

    Banning guns, or really anything, only works if the ban is world wide, and even then it won’t work. Heroin and crack cocaine are illegal and possession is banned in the US and most of the world, but both are readily available on numerous street corners in every city in the US. We tried to ban alcohol nationwide, and that not only didn’t work, we ended up repealling the ban because prohibition failed so miserably. Firecrackers were illegal where I grew up, but there were plenty around for the 4th of July. The government can even go house to house looking for banned items, but that won’t work either – people will find a way to either hide their guns or obtain substitute weapons. It’s the law of supply and demand; if people want something bad enough, someone will supply it.

    Bans only work with people who are responsible in the first place. My hunting shotgun is registered, and the authorities can easily find it. But all this type of ban would do is to take away a tool I use for recreation and home defense – it does nothing to remove guns from criminals. But calling for a ban satisfies the liberal urge to do something, something which almost always involves punishing law abiding citizens.

  17. BTW, what happens to the piles of guns confiscated and surrendered to police departments? Are they sent to the Feds? (which probably means they end up sold/given to cartels, gangs or foreign governments). Thrown in furnaces? Taken apart and sold for parts? What’s the deal?

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