Gun Control Laws And Opposition
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The Left’s Favorite Gun Crime Talking Point Gets Destroyed
“Why do you think that Chicago has become America’s largest outdoor shooting range?” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Dr. Megan Ranney from Yale’s School of Public Health. “Do you think it’s because of Chicago citizens who have no criminal record but who have a gun in their home or perhaps for hunting, or do you think it is because of a finite group of criminals who have rap sheets as long as King Kong’s arm?”
“Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri actually have higher firearm death rates,” Ranney replied.
This claim is not true.
Billy Binion, the associate editor at Reason magazine, debunked Ranney’s claim in a post on X/Twitter. “Some recent stats: Mississippi’s gun homicide rate: ~13 murders per 100,000 people; Louisiana’s gun homicide rate: ~15 murders per 100,000 people; Missouri’s gun homicide rate: ~11 murders per 100,000 people; Chicago’s gun homicide rate: ~29 murders per 100,000 people.”
Did you notice how Kennedy was talking about the city of Chicago? Ranney responded by comparing a blue city to three red states. There’s a reason why Ranney sought to compare Chicago, Ill., to the state of Mississippi instead of its capital, Jackson; or to the state of Louisiana instead of the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge; or to the state of Missouri instead of St. Louis or Kansas City—all of which are typically ranked among the most dangerous cities in the country.
S.B. 2, signed into law by Newsom in September and effective January 1, 2024, recognizes the right of individuals to carry firearms for self-protection. But it limits the discretion of licensing authorities to a ludicrous degree. In fact, S.B. 2 notes that the changes made legal in Bruen would allow "individuals to carry firearms in most public areas," according to Reason.com's Jacob Sullum.
Very true, so what's the problem? Too much freedom.
The law will make virtually every place in California a "sensitive place" where firearms are banned, and "forbidding firearm carry even after someone has undertaken the lengthy and expensive process to be issued a concealed handgun license," as stated in a lawsuit challenging the law..
California's gun-free zones "include every park and playground, every hospital, all public transportation, any place that sells alcohol (which, in California, includes most gas stations and convenience and grocery stores), all land under the control of the Department of Parks and Recreation or the Department of Fish and Wildlife (with exceptions for hunting), libraries, churches, banks, and many more."
Very true, so what's the problem? Too much freedom.
The law will make virtually every place in California a "sensitive place" where firearms are banned, and "forbidding firearm carry even after someone has undertaken the lengthy and expensive process to be issued a concealed handgun license," as stated in a lawsuit challenging the law..
California's gun-free zones "include every park and playground, every hospital, all public transportation, any place that sells alcohol (which, in California, includes most gas stations and convenience and grocery stores), all land under the control of the Department of Parks and Recreation or the Department of Fish and Wildlife (with exceptions for hunting), libraries, churches, banks, and many more."
Thinking Seriously About Gun Control: 10-Round Magazine Limits Are A Bad Idea
By Robert F. TurnerPolls reveal most Americans favor laws limiting the capacity of firearms magazines to 10 rounds, and the New York Times reports that several generally pro-gun federal legislators have expressed support for such legislation. Surely, they argue, no one needs more than 10 shots to kill a deer or stop an armed intruder. Other than in war, their main purpose, clearly, is to murder large numbers of innocent citizens. So, they should obviously be outlawed. So goes the mantra, but it is far from the truth.
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Only in Hollywood do people shot with a 9mm bullet immediately fall to the ground dead. People have been hit more than 20 times with such bullets and survived the experience. While homeowners generally do not wish to kill an intruder—or intruders, as home invasions and other violent crimes are often committed by multiple armed assailants—or anyone else, to be successful, they must act quickly to do whatever is necessary to end the threat. And doing that often requires multiple hits.
There is also a serious risk of repeatedly missing the target under the stress of a gunfight. A study of New York Police Department shootings between 1998 and 2006 revealed that trained police officers hit their targets under the stress of a gunfight 18% of the time. On average, that’s just under two hits with a 10-round magazine. And that includes superficial wounds that have little chance of incapacitating the criminal.
A similar study of 149 officer-involved shootings by the Dallas Police Department between 2003 and 2017 concluded that officers fired an average of 2.4 rounds in a typical gunfight and struck the suspect at least once 54% of the time. Half of the officers did not score a single hit when firing their handguns under such stress. A 2022 study reported in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health cited these and other data while noting that “high anxiety,” like being involved in a gunfight, is “a trait known to negatively impact on marksmanship.”
Yet another study did the math, concluding that it takes 2.45 hits with a 9mm pistol on average to end a threat and 5.55 shots to make a hit. That adds up to 13.6 rounds fired on average to incapacitate an attacker, and that's for just one attacker—which is hardly good news if you are trying to defend your family while limited to a 10-round magazine. (It is true that homeowners can carry more than one magazine, but when awakened in the middle of the night by an uncertain noise while wearing pajamas, the likelihood they would think to do so is slim. They may well want their second hand free for opening doors or carrying a flashlight.)
It should be axiomatic that most homeowners have far less firearms training than professional police officers, so their accuracy under stress will likely be even less than the New York Police officers’ 18% hit rate. Limit them to a 10-round magazine, and perhaps they will hit a single intruder once or twice, which is less than the 2.5 hits that a study of more than 450 shootings with 9mm pistols over a ten-year period concluded were necessary to incapacitate the average threat. Add multiple criminals to the mix, and their victims will have little chance.
Americans Would Lose More 2A Rights Under Newly Proposed Democrat-Backed Bill
The Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act would ban mechanisms, notably semi-automatic firearms, the “gas operation” cornerstone. It would also ban modifications, including the use of bump stocks and the manufacture of so-called “ghost gun kits.”
Critics of the bill say it would ban the exact firearms law-abiding citizens use to defend themselves and their families.
“Even if they were to pass the law, it’ll never pass constitutional muster, and it will be struck down,” Director of Federal Affairs for Gun Owners of America, Aidan Johnston, told the Daily Caller. “These senators just need to leave our rights alone and let Americans defend themselves with modern self-defense technologies.”
In a press conference, Heinrich explained that he focused on the mechanics of a firearm rather than on cosmetic features that individuals or manufacturers can quickly modify.— further depriving Americans of their 2A rights.
“This bill unjustly and improperly places the full burden of the law on law-abiding residents while doing nothing to take guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals,” Executive Director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, Randy Kozuch, said.
Prosecutors Agree He Shot a Man in Self-Defense. They're Still Trying To Put Him in Prison.
Law enforcement reportedly labeled the shooting a "justified homicide." While obviously a tragic situation, that's clearly the correct decision. Which also makes the government's choice to prosecute him for criminal possession of a weapon, a violent felony, all the more preposterous. Put differently, Craig should spend years in prison, law enforcement says, not because he used his weapon improperly, but because he used it without first jumping through the barriers—which are both time consuming and financially burdensome—required to register a gun with the government.
Craig is far from the first such defendant. This past summer, Charles Foehner, an elderly New York City man, shot a man attempting to mug him. Soon after, he learned that prosecutors would seek to have him die in prison. But it wasn't because he hadn't acted in self-defense. He had, the proof of which was caught on video. It was because police searched his apartment after the shooting and found that only some of his weapons were licensed with the government.
Jones, whom Craig killed, reportedly had over 20 prior arrests for grand larceny, robbery, and domestic violence, among other convictions; Cody Gonzalez, whom Foehner killed, had at least 15 prior arrests. Like Craig, Foehner has no criminal record. And yet Foehner, if convicted on all charges, would go to prison for far longer than Gonzalez would have had he survived.
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State tries to pull fast one on California firearms laws
Instead of adjusting to the fact that existing state law was unconstitutional, California passed a new law that aims to keep things as close as possible to the way they were before the Bruen ruling.
Something similar happened after the Civil War, when the former slave states passed laws known as the Black Codes. Those statutes aimed to keep the former slaves in a condition as close to slavery as possible.
That led to the federal Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the simultaneous Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which put an end to the Black Codes and protected fundamental rights.
Following the same logic employed by the old Confederacy, California is defiantly seeking ways to continue to limit fundamental rights under the Second Amendment. Attorney General Rob Bonta, leading the California Department of Justice, has now contributed to this effort with a set of emergency regulations that will make it more difficult and expensive to obtain the firearms training that is required for the issuance of a concealed carry permit.
Under California Penal Code section 31635, firearm safety certificate instructors “shall have a certification to provide training from one of the following organizations, as specified, or any entity found by the department to give comparable instruction in firearms safety, or the applicant shall have similar or equivalent training to that provided by the following, as determined by the department.”
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Does DC still do this? I remember that lady reporter that made getting a DC carry permit an article series. One of the big hurdles was finding one of the five or so places listed as being the only ones certified by the District to teach. Three were out of business, one refused because DC had never contacted them and told them what requirements to teach to and the other finally agreed.
Agree. Owning a gun is a priviledge that all law abiding U.S. citizens enjoy.