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Since this thread has become a catch-all for a lot of cases, I'll share this here: For those who don't know Jim Miller (the Miller in Miller v. Bonta AW lawsuit) is a member of a local (to me in San Diego) school district. He's also a board member of SDCGO which is the genesis of a lot of these...

It never ceases to amaze me how far the state will go to defend a lost cause. In spite of the more absurd side of those oral arguments, these people aren't stupid. It must feel weird to have to throw basic reasoning to the wind to come up with some of this stuff. It's not much to assume they...

Only because none of these politicians are writing novel legislation. They're copying the language used by other states, and even the prior Federal AWB which carved out lot's of room for the same rifles. It's a function of that plagiarism.

I assume you're referencing my post since I'm the only one who mentioned the penalties in the proposal. However I didn't say "just a misdemeanor" anywhere. I was merely pointing out that Colorado's copy & paste of California's own decades of anti-gun laws, stopped short of making violations of...

More like it's politically expedient to support trash legislation like this. That's the real reason these bills can advance in the current environment. Someone elsewhere posted a canned reply from their state rep in regard to their opposition to this and it's clear that the motivation isn't so...

According to RMGO, there's a rally at the capitol on the 19th, so there is something "we can do to stop it". The bill seems to borrow heavily from our (CA) three decades of amended AWBs. But it looks like the authors stopped short of toothy penalties since it appears violating it would be a...

True, but that's the nature of all nonbinding resolutions. The reason I asked about crime deterrence is because it's not specifically mentioned in the text of the resolution itself. I suppose an imaginary defendant in an imaginary prosecution could as a means of justifying a defensive shooting...

If this was the Brady group (whatever they call themselves these days) defending their own internal impropriety, wouldn't we be beating them up to clean their own house, etc? The longer the NRA fights this, the longer it lingers in the press. That pleases our detractors to no end.

From the article: Cotton is a Texas attorney who has served as the NRA’s Audit Committee Chairman for over the past decade. ... During sworn testimony in the NRA’s failed bankruptcy case and the current New York lawsuit against the NRA, Cotton admitted that he had never reviewed New York laws...

How much violent crime would one reasonably need to deter in a 25k sq mile area with a population of barely 100k people? That's my take-away from the story. (Full disclosure: never been to Alaska although it's on my bucket list)

By design, the president is too far removed from lawmaking for the question to be valid. Examining the number of "pro-gun" bills which get introduced into congress each session might be a better place to start. And how many times (in theory at least) is the introduction of such bills politically...

So there's already a paid armed security position that exists in each school in Alaska? If that's so and I'm understanding it correctly, wouldn't this proposal be a bit redundant? It makes way more sense to have that be a standalone job.

Just as small point of reference here too, the vast majority of incidents in the schools where I work, which required summoning LE, have been ones that involved unruly parents --not students or outside parties. I'm not opposed to people being armed on a campus but realistically speaking, most...

But would you agree all of those in bold are the biggest stakeholders in this, particularly parents? Because I do. A better bill would be to just carve out a new position, which the state itself funds, that assigns a qualified security officer to each school. I don't know how many individual...

General classroom management (i.e. discipline) definitely isn't a job that school resource/police officers do. Nor should they. If something rises to the level of needing to handcuff or use a firearm in a classroom, something went wrong twenty steps back in the equation. I work in education and...

Right away the article conflates "gun violence" with general homicide/violent crime which renders the data instantly suspect. Even where such data focuses solely on crimes committed with guns, any conclusion should be taken with a giant grain of salt. That is, unless you believe the (anti-gun)...

Too little too late. And remember, there are people out there celebrating alongside us simply because it's a blow to the organization and the cause, *and* they hate guns.

Don't invest too much thought into the words of a murderer, particularly with respect to any self evaluation. There isn't a deeper layer to it. Nor is there a learning opportunity for preventative use. Tons of research indicates there is no "red flag" to be found in any of these cases...

To add to that, those tactics don't work well on the up and coming generations. The survival of the gun rights movement depends on young people and a lot of what might resonate with me (someone on that boomer/gen x cusp) is an alien entity to kids coming of age right now. That's a big problem...

For ease of reading, here's the original link to the story. To the point of the thread, I wouldn't have picked that piece to make it but whatever. It's also worth noting that Propublica is mission-based journalism and this was intended as an expose of Dyke more than anything else. To what end, I...