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Kindergartners Are ‘Critical but Stable’ After California School Shooting (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/guns

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Mr. Litton, however, could not legally buy a gun because he was a felon. Mr. Honea said investigators believed that the handgun that Mr. Litton used was a homemade, untraceable gun made of parts from different weapons, often called a “ghost gun.”

So, what did California's gun control regime accomplish here?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/159095

Here's the archive link: http://archive.today/2024.12.06-125212/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/school-shooting-california-kindergarteners.html

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[–] themeatbridge 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right, because it's harder to buy a gun. You're saying it'srelatively easier, but nothing about building a gun is made easier.

And I agree, we shouldn't be passing legislation that is unconstitutional, (although an entirely separate argument can be had about the relative validity of the current supreme court). I only mention new regulations because that's the logical conclusion from OP's complaint. Instead of fewer restrictions, their argument suggests more are needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's also a lot easier than you seem to think it is to build them, and also buying them illegally is fairly trivial as well, and making that harder to do is unconstitutional if we limit guns and impossible if we're planning on limiting dremels, so the "make them harder to make" thing doesn't pan out is what I'm saying.

We've made them harder to buy, making them harderer to buy won't solve it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It suggests that firearms should be decriminalized. Think of the years of sentences and enhancements handed down to people for possessing guns or gun parts they weren't supposed to have, in a system that was found to have incarcerated people to the point of unconstitutionality no less. It still wasn't enough to stop this guy from attacking a school. The shooter was himself a product of California's prisons.