Well, according to Senator Barbara Boxer California's gun control laws are working

[Aim1]

And she wants to reintroduce the Assault Weapons Ban. She says (at the 0:30/1:20 mark) that California's gun control laws do work. This is the day after the terrorist attack (most likely, not proven though yet) in San Bernardino, California were terrorists used legally acquired firearms.



Apparently Senator Boxer doesn't realize that San Bernardino is in California.



I can't believe more pro-2nd Amendment folks aren't jumping on this one. This is who we're up against, and who the people keep electing.









http://freebeacon.com/issues/boxer-sensible-gun-laws-work-weve-proven-it-in-california/

Boxer: ‘Sensible Gun Laws Work, We’ve Proven It in California’

BY: David Rutz

December 3, 2015 5:38 pm

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) said she and other progressives had “proven it in California” that “sensible gun laws work” during a press conference one day after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 dead.

“When you ask such a question, you’re basically saying, ‘Why bother?’” Boxer said. “That is not what leaders do. They don’t just hide because you may not win the vote. You keep doing it. I’ll give you one statistic. In California, since the ’90s, we have passed a number of important gun safety laws, and over that period of time, we’ve had a reduction in gun violence of 56 percent.

“Now clearly, what we see is this is not enough. That’s why we need national laws. That’s why I’m looking forward to Sen. Feinstein’s reintroduction of some form of her assault weapon ban. But the fact is sensible gun laws work. We’ve proven it in California, and we’re not going to give up. If you look at all the great fights that we’ve had over decades before we were even here on major social issues, on anti-pollution issues, these things take 10, 20 years. You don’t give up.”

 

[MachIVshooter]

Oh, yeah, California has proven it alright. Which is why their homicide rate mirrors the national average, in which only a few other states rival or exceed their restrictions.

 

[USAF_Vet]

Then I will go ahead and assume that if they are working, we'll see no new gun control legislation introduced in California.

 

[Old Dog]

Were the shooters in SB using magazines that held more than 10 rounds? Or were they obeying the California law in that respect?

 

[Aim1]

Apparently using 30 round magazines and attempted to modify one of that rifles to fill auto but it didn't work.


None of the anti-gunners are bringing up how pipe bombs are already illegal also.

 

[danez71]

Boxer is using the angle that the rifles look to be imported into CA and therefore probably don't have a bullet button (which would make them CA compliant) and be considered assault weapons under CA law.

 

[DMK]

This is the typical ploy:

"Our state laws work. It's the lax laws of the states around us that allow evil guns to be brought in. Therefore we need stricter national laws".

Same stance that Bloomberg has been taking in NY.

 

[threoh8]

Obviously, California needs Lebensraum.

 

[Driftertank]

...and once they've managed to nationalize firearms restrictions, it will be those darned mexicans who just need to get their act together and stop arming our terrorists, right?

 

[Aim1]

This is the typical ploy:

"Our state laws work. It's the lax laws of the states around us that allow evil guns to be brought in. Therefore we need stricter national laws".

Same stance that Bloomberg has been taking in NY.

And I always say, "If the illegal guns in Chicago are the problem of loose gun laws in places like Indiana and Mississippi, how come Indiana and Mississippi don't have the same crime rate with guns as Chicago does?"

 

[buckhorn_cortez]

...it will be those darned mexicans who just need to get their act together and stop arming our terrorists, right?

No. That would be racist...you can only accuse right wing, white Americans with impunity...especially white, male, right wing Americans.

You know...the Obama identified "bitter clingers"...

Someone needs to ask her "Please explain exactly HOW the gun laws worked if these people had semi-auto rifles with 30 shot magazines?"

 

[Deanimator]

It depends upon how you define "working".

If she means, they "create a vast pool of unarmed, pathetically helpless potential victims, relying on the malignant fairy tale of police 'protection'", then yes, they're working BRILLIANTLY...

 

[Capybara]

Boxer is a deluded Statist tyrant. The two ARs were purchased from Annie's Get Your Gun in Corona, California, not out of state. It takes about :60 to replace a bullet button with a regular AR mag release and insert a 30 round magazine. There are hundreds of thousands of greater than ten round magazines in this state, not very difficult to illegally obtain. The morons who run this state can't ever admit that their feeble, incompetently written gun laws are a complete failure and that when it comes to mass shootings and terrorism, they are all panicked because they have NOTHING to prevent them from happening again. Until this state and nation acknowledge that we are in a home front WAR with radical Islam and against domestic and lone wolf terrorists, this will become the new norm. In the meantime, they will never let an opportunity to disarm us go to waste.

 

[Aim1]

I can't believe Foxnews isn't playing this but over and over again like when Senator Carolyn McCarthy said that a barrel shroud was "the folding thing that goes up" to show how clueless these anti-gunners are.

 

[taliv]

are you upset? really?

THR is not an echo chamber. Don't come here and tell us how mad you are. Go tell the people you know who watch TV in the daytime. Even better, take someone shooting with you this weekend. Call and write your representatives. Every day.

oh... you're not THAT mad yet??

just wait then. it will get worse.

 

[jmorris]

... it will be those darned mexicans who just need to get their act together and stop arming our terrorists, right?

Pretty sure that was our Government that got caught supplying the firearms south of the border.

 

[200Apples]

Capybara

The morons who run this state can't ever admit that their feeble, incompetently written gun laws are a complete failure and that when it comes to mass shootings and terrorism, they are all panicked because they have NOTHING to prevent them from happening again. Until this state and nation acknowledge that we are in a home front WAR with radical Islam and against domestic and lone wolf terrorists, this will become the new norm. In the meantime, they will never let an opportunity to disarm us go to waste.

Rather well said, unfortunately. Wish it weren't so.

Meanwhile, train! train, train. And remember: "...self-preservation – and “vigilance” – IS NOT vigilantism."

 

[USAF_Vet]

I can't believe Foxnews isn't playing this but over and over again like when Senator Carolyn McCarthy said that a barrel shroud was "the folding thing that goes up" to show how clueless these anti-gunners are.

Saw a new one today, a California rep used the term "Multi Automatic round weapons". And of course there's the new fashion trend, "Assault style clothing".

Oh and apparently that Bullet Button is an accessory to make a standard AR fully automatic.

We know they're idiots, but the sheeple do not.

 

[Deanimator]

We know they're idiots, but the sheeple do not.

That's why they should be publicly mocked at every opportunity.

The online comments section of your local newspaper(s) is a perfect place.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Then I will go ahead and assume that if they are working, we'll see no new gun control legislation introduced in California.

Evidently "Governor for Life" Brown is blaming the "lax" gun laws in Arizona and Nevada.

 

[22-rimfire]

Yes, gun control laws work for honest people and make it more difficult to purchase a firearm. Progressives want to make it more and more difficult to purchase and eventually honest people just give up. As more generations grow up without any experience with firearms, the more the gun control agenda appeals to them... "10, 20 years....."

People like Boxer don't really care if the laws prevent a San Bernardino event, they simply want to disarm the American public. We all know that the police are there to protect the American public..... Here I thought they were around to enforce laws as in "law enforcement". Gee wizz, I have a lot to learn.

 

[hso]

The real question for members here is, "What are YOU doing to do about this?".

Are you, this isn't and US question, going to do anything more than complain in response to the threats made by these people? Are you going to look for reports on this BS and find the comments and post a clear and respectable fact based response that makes other readers think "Hmm, that makes sense". Are you going to send a real paper letter to your local, state and fed representatives with a real stamp on it and tell them "No, the gun prohibitionists and their lies do not represent me and no one siding with them does either. I pledge today to donate my time and money supporting the people that support the 2A and to work against those that insist on infringing upon the law abiding." Are you going to follow up with a phone call and emails and perhaps a visit to respectfully say that you're organizing your family and friends to oppose these people and support those that represent you? Some of us do these things and more whether there's a headline or not.

What are YOU going to do about it?

 

[Choctaw]

And the idiot California voters keep electing her. Awesome.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

The real question for members here is, "What are YOU doing to do about this?".

Are you, this isn't and US question, going to do anything more than complain in response to the threats made by these people? Are you going to look for reports on this BS and find the comments and post a clear and respectable fact based response that makes other readers think "Hmm, that makes sense". Are you going to send a real paper letter to your local, state and fed representatives with a real stamp on it and tell them "No, the gun prohibitionists and their lies do not represent me and no one siding with them does either. I pledge today to donate my time and money supporting the people that support the 2A and to work against those that insist on infringing upon the law abiding." Are you going to follow up with a phone call and emails and perhaps a visit to respectfully say that you're organizing your family and friends to oppose these people and support those that represent you? Some of us do these things and more whether there's a headline or not.

What are YOU going to do about it?

I'll be supporting the NRA and the KSRA and the NMLRA as well as any of the pro 2nd Amendment politicians here in Kansas. The state where I live.
As to California, the state where I was born, I doubt if there is much that I can do...

 

[taliv]

As to California, the state where I was born, I doubt if there is much that I can do...

sure there is

think about it from the politicians' POV. they want to be in the majority. they are in something of an echo chamber and believe their own media reports sometimes, and think everyone believes like they do.

if lots of people call and write them and say they're pro-gun. and especially all the examples of people that were previously anti gun that are changing their minds due to the terrorism...
you will make them realize that if they push gun control, nationally, they're headed toward another historic Democrat wipeout like clinton saw, that ushered in newt gingrich.

even the representatives in deeply liberal areas of california may urge the national figures like hillary to back off, if they think pushing gun control will set up 8 years of republican control of the presidency, both houses of congress and the supreme court.

they realize they'll get nothing done at all, and worse, they won't get their committee chair positions that let them pull in the pork for their districts.