If Gun Control Stops School Shootings, There Wouldn’t Be A Santa Clarita

With Santa Clarita not even a distant memory, anti-gun voices are already using it to demand more gun control. Even before the facts were known, Sen. Dick Blumenthal demanded the Senate capitulate to his whims and pass a universal background check bill that wouldn’t have done anything to prevent the shooting as far as anyone can tell.

This is normal for anti-gunners. They routinely prattle about how we need more gun control after a mass shooting.

However, Santa Clarita is in California, the most gun controlled state in the nation. There’s virtually no measure being seriously discussed by lawmakers at the federal level that hasn’t been on the books in California for years.

If gun control worked, Santa Clarita wouldn’t have happened. I’m not the only one who thinks this, obviously. For example, John Lott argues that California’s gun control laws might actually be the problem.