Op-Ed Asks How Could Thousand Oaks Happen Amid CA Gun Rules

By Tom Knighton

Since we first learned the horror of what took place in Thousand Oaks, op-eds have flowed claiming that it’s time to restrict the private ownership of guns.

Sites like Bearing Arms and others focused on the Second Amendment are asking just how in the hell this could happen if gun control was so magically efficient?

Now, it seems at least one op-ed is bringing up that same question.

The killing of 12 innocent people by a deranged gunman in a California nightclub has provided fertile soil for the usual cast of gun control opportunists and political ambulance chasers. What few people seem to be asking is how could such an atrocity occur in a state with such strict gun laws?

California has a 10-day waiting period on handgun purchases, which it also limits to one handgun per month. It prohibits private sales and requires a background check on every firearms purchase. It regulates ammo sales.

It prohibits regular capacity magazines. It discourages concealed carry by the law-abiding by making permits virtually impossible to obtain. California also vigorously tracks and disarms those convicted of a crime and others it considers “dangerous.”

Despite all of these obstacles, the gunman was able to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms