Tight CA Gun Control Fails to Slow Gun Violence

Timothy Birdnow

I'm not surprised. The imposition of gun control in a lot of countries had zero impact on gun crimes. Brazil has some of the strictes gun laws in the world and their gun crime levels were not effected.

California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds

In 1991, California simultaneously imposed comprehensive background checks for firearm sales and prohibited gun sales (and gun possession) to people convicted of misdemeanor violent crimes. The legislation mandated that all gun sales, including private transactions, would have to go through a California-licensed Federal Firearms License (FFL) dealer. Shotguns and rifles, like handguns, became subject to a 15-day waiting period to make certain all gun purchasers had undergone a thorough background check.

More than a quarter of a century later, researchers at Johns Hopkins and UC Davis dug into the results of the sweeping legislation.

It was the most expansive state gun control legislation in America, affecting an estimatedone million gun buyers in the first year alone. Though costly and cumbersome, politicians and law enforcement agreed the law was worth it.

The legislation would "keep more guns out of the hands of the people who shouldn’t have them,” said then-Republican Gov. George Deukmejian.

"I think the new laws are going to help counter the violence,” said LAPD spokesman William D. Booth.

More than a quarter of a century later, researchers at Johns Hopkins and UC Davis dug into the results of the sweeping legislation. Researchers compared yearly gun suicide and homicide rates over the 10 years following implementation of California’s law with 32 control states that did not have such laws.

They found "no change in the rates of either cause of death from firearms through 2000.”

Gee; whoda thunk it?

Legal guns are not and never have been the problem. The Left knows it too. They push for this for other reasons.

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