California’s rabidly-anti-gun Senator Barbara Boxer made a rather ill-considered comment yesterday: “Sensible gun laws work, we’ve proven it in California, and we’re not gonna give up.”
Yes, indeed. Those California “sensible” restrictions on Californians’ right to keep and bear arms certainly saved all those people dead and injured from Muslims on a jihad against Western Civilization, now didn’t they?
In all fairness, she points to crime stats that show that “gun deaths” – which include suicides – dropped about 50% in California from 1993 to 2010. Two important facts were omitted in her cherry-picking.
1. People intent on killing themselves will find a way to do it. They are clever like that.
2. Homicide rates for the entire nation dropped about the same amount, even those who didn’t follow California’s example of burdening their law-abiding residents with onerous gun rights restrictions. If I had more time, I’d research if homicides actually increased in California during that time which could have happened if suicides using guns declined more than the national average.
What’s next? Is she going to claim her precious gun control laws allowed the sun to rise tomorrow?
Take heart Babsy, Barry Baby is doing all he can to nationalize your California Dreaming. Sorry everyone, I just can’t to West Coast hip.
It’s not West Coast Hip it’s Left Coast Hype.
I can’t do that either.
I don’t even know how to respond to this…
Boxer calls for disarming innocent law abiding citizens 2 days after terrorists once again demonstrate that the police can’t protect you.
Obama called for sending more Syrian refuges to California after the attack.
These guys are either traitors, tone deaf, stupid or just don’t care. Maybe all 4…
“We are going to fundamentally transform America.”
Thought he was kidding, didn’t you?
There gun control law made a big difference to the young lady who was killed a few months ago by the illegal didn’t they. Sovbloc Califonia is strong on people control and gun control on natives not so much on illegals. Keep up the good work Barb’s your thinning the minority voter’s down.
Texas doesn’t have California’s nasty gun laws.
Terrorists in Texas get shot dead, PDQ.
Terrorists in California shoot up a whole bunch of people, and get away.
I’m just thankful those two didn’t go to a school, hospital or daycare.
Yeah, gun control works.
And Barack Obama had Islamic terror contained.
And ISIS was the JV team.
And if you like your doctor you can keep him.