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In reply to the discussion: 15-year-old girl who performed at Obama inauguration gunned down in Chicago [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)A San Francisco-based policy center on gun control laws has produced a report that says states with strict gun laws have the lowest gun-related death rates. In contrast, it reports, states with the highest per capita gun death rates have "weak" gun laws.
The study by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence is touted by Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) as support for his own legislation tightening California's current assault weapon ban. The bill, SB47, would prohibit semiautomatic weapons from having devices that allow them to carry high-capacity magazines or easily be reloaded with multiple rounds of ammunition. A similar version of the bill failed to pass in 2012.
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He failed to mention the law center also included California on its list of states with the strongest gun control laws and lowest gun-releated deaths. The center declares California has the toughest gun control laws in the nation and gives the state an "A minus" on its report card, a designation shared only with New Jersey and Massachussetts.
The highest per-capita gun death rates were in Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi -- states that the law center said have weak gun control laws.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2013/01/tough-gun-control.html
One of Californians' New Years presents was a new set of gun laws. Read them here. Hopefully we will eventually have fewer guns on our crowded streets.
http://www.californiality.com/2012/04/new-california-gun-laws.html
I note that the chart is until 2010.
California's ever tightening gun laws have apparently worked. I'm no expert.