California Imposing Restrictions on Carrying Guns Despite SCOTUS Ruling
PJ MediaDec 02, 2023
The Facts
US District Judge Cormac Carney on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction to block a California law that would ban carrying firearms in most public places.
In his decision, Carney wrote the law is "sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court."
The Spin
Right narrative
Democrats are constantly trying to find ways around laws they don't like — even if that means writing new, unconstitutional laws. The Supreme Court in its Bruen decision set the standard gun laws have to meet to withstand a challenge, yet California still came out with a law that has a ludicrous amount of places lawful citizens can't carry their guns. Democrats seem to get a kick out of stifling freedom.
Democratic narrative
By every measure, polling shows overwhelming, bipartisan support among voters for limits on the types of guns that can be sold, who can possess a gun and where, and how one can purchase a gun. But because gun control doesn't influence who citizens vote for, Republicans ignore the desires of the electorate and continue to allow guns to proliferate and make the country less safe.
Nerd narrative
There's a 50% chance that there will be at least 1.40 small firearms per capita in the USA by 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.