CA Legislators Consider Still More Gun Control After Borderline Shooting

By Tom Knighton

The shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill left 12 people dead. It also exposed the absolute folly of thinking that tough gun control measures would actually prevent mass shootings.

After all, California boasts some of the toughest gun control measures out there, including red flag laws, magazine capacity limits, measures limiting the models of guns available, assault weapon bans, the works. None of which stopped when a maniac walked into a bar and opened fire. None at all.

Not to be deterred by their complete failure, it seems California lawmakers want to enact still more anti-gun laws in an effort to look like they’re doing something.

In the wake of the Borderline shooting in Thousand Oaks, state and local officials have looked to legislative changes to find a way to better protect the community.

Officials say they don’t know if any would have prevented the Nov. 7, 2018, shooting that left 12 people dead. But they hope it could stop another from happening.

“Many of us in the community feel that this tragedy really is driving us to try to do something to prevent this in the future,” said Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks.

She has proposed a series of bills related …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms