Stringent gun regulations only way to stanch flow of blood

[SecularMotion]

San Francisco’s last gun shop, the High Bridge Arms, is scheduled to close later this month as a result of strict gun regulations in the city. According to The Guardian, gun dealers in San Francisco are required “to carry liability insurance, report inventory details and keep records of ammunition sales.” These regulations are in addition to the already strict state laws.

The Board of Supervisors passed a new city ordinance Tuesday, mandating the video recording of all gun and ammunition sales in San Francisco. It will also require gun dealers to keep specific records of ammunition sales and gun transfers, among other information, according to the ordinance’s text. Lastly, the recordings would be made available to law enforcement agencies.

San Francisco is taking the necessary preventative action by enforcing stricter gun control. These regulations are crucial barriers to ensure that San Francisco doesn’t succumb to the national threat of mass violence or become another pin in the latest map of our nation’s mass shootings.

A graph created by Slate clearly shows the emphatic correlation between gun control laws and lower rates of gun death. California’s laws were ranked the strongest in the U.S. Other states should take note.

http://goldengatexpress.org/2015/10/31/stringent-gun-regulations-only-way-to-stanch-flow-of-blood/

[Travis_0004]

1. Im guessing people will still buy guns

They will just go to oakland or somewhere else and SF will lose out on the tax revenue.

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. The gun store owners in next-door San Mateo County are no doubt pleased

[TeddyR]

2. San Francisco

Would do better to start complying with federal laws on deportation of criminal foreign nationals so that those people don't kill innocent citizens.

And of course, the graph in the Slate story is completely misleading. Wyoming is ranked highest in "gun deaths" when in fact there are very few murders in that state and the vast majority of "gun deaths" there are suicides. Do you think you are safer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Baltimore or Chicago? That bastion of gun control, Chicago, has the highest murder rates in the country. Los Angeles has the 5th highest, but how can that be true if California's gun laws are so strict?

[Brickbat]

3. "Emphatic correlation."

Is that a technical term?

[Eleanors38]

8. Probably post-beat statistical criticism.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. another dupe of a useless article

:flush:

[Duckhunter935]

5. I guess they will just buy weapons and ammunition

outside of the city limits and the tax revenue will be their benefit.

[Eleanors38]

7. Ruby's, a "restaurant" and liquor store over the Alachua County line in Marion County...

sucked in tons of cash and transferred tax revenue until Alachua Co. went wet in 1962. That old place stood empty for decades after that. May be scraped off, now.

County-line politics at its best!

[ileus]

6. Stringent gun bans only way to stanch flow of blood

Why won't they say what they mean???

Why lie and pretend?

[beevul]

10. Only to people who incorrectly believe its a gun problem.

Practitioners of that faith are few, but they're disproportionately loud.