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Gun laws aren’t going to stop mass shootings.
California has the strongest gun laws in the country, according to the advocacy groups Everytown for Gun Safety and The Giffords Law Center.
Those gun laws – which are under threat thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision – only go so far in a country awash in guns, where there’s almost no action at the federal level, and where there is so much variation in gun laws from state to state and even within states.
But it would also be wrongheaded to look at a string of unrelated mass shootings that spanned from Southern California to Northern California in recent days and argue that all gun laws don’t work.
Thousands of Californians die from gun violence each year – 3,449 in 2020, according to the US Centers for…
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