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Friday, April 05, 2013

State By State

With the signing yesterday in Connecticut of the nation's most comprehensive gun law, it's become obvious that the issue of gun safety and the drive to reduce violence related to guns is going to occur on a state by state basis. Connecticut now joins Colorado and New York in tough enforcement on assault weapons, magazine size and background checks. In addition, beefed up security provisions at schools were also included in the bill.

The feet dragging and hand wringing at the federal level seems less important now since the states are getting the job done without them. Certainly, there will be states that have more relaxed laws and some that have more restrictive laws. This presents us with a unique situation in which we can now compare which laws are effective in reducing violence and which ones are not by comparing the states.

With this Connecticut law, we now have a "Day One" from which to work and measure the effectiveness of a truly robust gun safety law. It will be interesting to see how it plays out, particularly in terms of the cherry picking that is likely to start occurring any second now:)

3 comments:

Juris Imprudent said...

Much more of a mixed bag then you attempt to make it appear. Besides, states can pass restrictive laws, but with Heller and McDonald it is a different game these days.

Nikto said...

Yeah, Republicans are completely opposed to federal courts overturning the will of the people as represented by state laws, except when they don't like those state laws. Then the entire fate of humanity rides on five activist conservative judges on the Supreme Court imposing their will on the masses.

Juris Imprudent said...

Did you just call me a Republican? I come from a family that would shoot your sorry ass for talk like that.