The quote of the day is presented by Guns.com.
The United States is experiencing historically low violent crime rates, including crimes involving firearms. Yet each time a high profile shooting takes place — no matter how many existing laws were broken — each instance is always seized upon as proof positive that the answer is…still more gun control laws.
“With multiple mass shootings in gun-controlled California over the last few days, the truth about the effects of disarmament could not be more clear,” the Firearms Policy Coalition, a gun-rights group, said Tuesday. “Gun control, no matter how small — or sweeping — will always result in more criminality… not less.”
Headline: “Mass Killer Breaks Dozens of Laws”
Politicians: “We need to pass more gun control laws!”
Next Headline: “Mass Killer Breaks Dozens of Laws”
Gun control supporters: “More gun control laws would fix the problem!”
Next Headline: “Mass Killer Breaks Dozens of Laws”
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— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) May 20, 2018
Some also note recent mass shootings in Mexico, including this month’s massacre of three women and six children earlier this month in an apparent attack by drug cartels, in a country with some of the world’s most stringent gun laws. A resident of the small Mexican town near the site of the massacre was quoted saying he felt the country’s gun laws leave law-abiding citizens vulnerable.
While California has low rates of gun deaths, that doesn’t mean the country’s most populous state doesn’t have a lot of gun-related fatalities. There were 3,184 people killed by guns in the Golden State in 2017, about eighteen times the 180 who died from guns in Alaska, which owned the highest gun death rate that year. The only state with more firearm fatalities was Texas, the second-most populous state behind California, with 3,513 gun deaths in 2017, and an “F” rating by Giffords for its gun laws.
After last week’s high school shooting, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, and Democratic presidential candidates visiting the state for a weekend forum argued the gun violence shows a need for stronger federal gun laws.
– John Woolfolk in California — capital of gun control — sees three mass shootings in four days
California’s Giffords ratting is “A”.
