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In 1989, America's first mass school shooting took place when a troubled Sacramento youth walked onto a playground in Stockton and shot 34 small children, killing five. 25 years later, these once-unthinkable tragedies have become terrifyingly familiar.
California is appealing a decision that overturned the state’s ban on assault weapons, first implemented after a 1989 mass shooting at a Stockton school.
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For more than 30 years, California has banned the ownership of assault weapons and the transfer of certain types of semiautomatic firearms, such as the AR-15 style rifle, with detachable magazines.
When was the last time you heard about an assault weapon wreaking havoc in California? How about two weeks ago in San Jose when nine innocent lives were lost when they were shot and killed by a disgruntled white male who had a problem with diversity. Technically, the weapon used wasn’t an assault rifle, but a 9mm pistol jacked up with a high capacity magazine. Still, it’s illegal in California. The point is, there are laws and there are loopholes. But it’s no reason to get rid of California’s assault weapons ban, the first such law in the nation.