In Thursday night’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for the passage of gun laws in California that have been in place for more than 30 years, the most high-profile gun restrictions our country has ever seen. Some mass shootings have not been stopped.
Biden argued that signing the bipartisan Safer Communities Act was a defeat for the NRA and called on Congress to defeat the NRA again by passing more gun control now.
“I am calling for a ban on ‘assault weapons’ and ‘high capacity’ magazines,” he said. He also called for universal background checks and argued that “none of this violates the Second Amendment or denigrates responsible gun owners.”
Biden did not say how he could ban legally owned AR-15s, AK-47s and similar rifles without denigrating the law-abiding Americans who own them.
Karmatters I got it. California introduced an “assault weapons” ban in 1989 and universal background checks in 1991.And with California adding so many gun regulations, Everytown for Gun Safety, in partnership with Mike Bloomberg, ranked It is the state with the most advanced gun control.
Ironically, the oft-lauded gun laws have failed to prevent high-profile mass shootings, with the FBI noting that California was the No. 1 “highest mass shooting state” in 2021.
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