2024 – Gun Violence by the Numbers, So Far

Gavin Newsom’s California is main the yr in each mass shootings (5) and it’s debatable for mass murders (6 useless in the one non-familicide incident).

I’m wondering once more in regards to the efficacy of California type gun management that the nation ought to embrace.

There have been 4 mass murders to date this yr. Two in Illinois, one other gun management poster baby the place this violence is supposedly banned sufficient, and one in Texas make up the opposite three. The California incident was the one one during which home violence/familicide was not the basis. Six our bodies have been discovered dumped by a roadside, it’s unknown in the event that they have been shot on the scene or at one other location and dumped.

Essentially the most deadly incident, Illinois, with 8 useless and 1 damage has the offender as a previous felon in possession of a handgun. He killed a number of members of his household and shot a person within the leg who was unloading groceries close by, after fleeing to Texas he killed himself earlier than he may very well be taken into police custody.

So the place are all of the occasions not being stopped by the shortage of gun laws? The place are these excessive occasions being so permitted however their disallowance in California, New York, and Illinois has stopped them?

It appears to me as if the rule, regardless of how allegedly permissive or restrictive a respective politico declares it, holds no extra weight than a violator is keen to grant it. Due to this fact, none.

Background checks, capability bans, allow lists, permitted gun lists, ready intervals, all of it California has and but they’ve essentially the most mass shootings and one of many clear worst killings this yr so far, how? How is Illinois with their FOID playing cards the deadliest state for mass murders 29 days into the yr? How? It’s towards the legislation?

It’s nearly as if the socio-economic calculus can’t be so merely outlined as making homicide further unlawful or attempting to ban a sure bullet depend from the palms of murders. Bizarre.

Stick with it, gun management. Stick with it… I suppose. Every time the rule fails it simply proves the factors once more.