Three California Massacres In One Week Shows Fallacy Of Gun Control Laws

Take a trip in your mind back to early November in the state of California and remember what happened in the most gun controlled state in the nation.

In the span of three days in the Golden State there were three major mass shootings and people on Twitter were demanding more gun control.

But if gun control laws worked at all, the three shootings that occurred would have been stopped in their tracks.

That is not what happened. For all of its gun laws California was rocked to its core by these three shootings and there is no reason to believe more laws would have any effect, as The Guardian reported.

Ten people were killed in three mass shootings in California in just four days, marking a particularly brutal wave of gun violence incidents in the state.

On Thursday morning, a 16-year-old student from Saugus high school in Santa Clarita, 30 miles north of Los Angeles, shot five classmates and then himself. Two of the victims, a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, succumbed to their injuries, as did the gunman.

On Saturday morning, a gunman in San Diego killed his estranged wife and three of their children, boys ages three, five and 11. A fourth son, age nine, was on life support over the weekend, and the gunman also died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The following night, four people were shot dead in Fresno, 200 miles north of LA, after a shooter entered a backyard party and fired into the crowd. The victims in the Sunday evening attack were men between the ages of 25 and 35, according to police, who said six others were injured and expected to survive.

Including the gunmen, 12 people died, and at least 10 others were injured in the three tragedies, with countless additional students, families and communities terrorized and traumatized by the attacks.

“The failure to protect our communities, families, and children is a waking nightmare that needs to end,” former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said at the time.

“If we don’t act, generations of Americans will expect gun violence to be a public safety threat that could change their lives no matter where they live,” she said.

But where Giffords makes her error is that California has near every gun control measure her group favors and yet it still had three mass shootings.

From the assault weapons ban to limited magazines to red flag laws and background checks has it all and then some.

But it did not work because, and this should not be a surprise to anyone, murder is illegal and these shooters break that law every time.

And since 1982 gun control California has had near two times the number of mass shootings as Texas, a state known to be more friendly to gun owners, Bearing Arms reported.

As of earlier this month, California had almost twice as many mass shootings since 1982 as gun-friendly Texas. That list was compiled as of November 6. That wouldn’t include any of these most recent shootings, though only the murders in San Diego would likely make that list. After all, they appear to be using a more sane definition than that the media prefers.

Regardless, California, with a third more in population, has almost twice as many mass shootings as a gun-friendly state like Texas.

Gun control doesn’t work. How many more people have to die before lawmakers in the state come to understand that it just doesn’t work. If anything, it prevents people from defending themselves. That should never be the case.