A leader in gun control efforts, California confronts its limits

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : But Republicans nationally have become far more resistant to gun-control efforts in the decades since, blocking most proposed federal legislation as an infringement on Second Amendment rights.
50% : "Swanson said the state gun laws that exist could be bolstered by more federal assistance.
49% : [California authorities waited 5 hours to warn public that dance hall shooter was on the run]"We just have so many guns in circulation in this country that it is very difficult to prevent someone in crisis from getting access to one," said Allison Anderman, senior counsel at the Giffords Law Center, a nonprofit organization that advocates for stricter gun laws.
49% : there's some role for federal regulation," he said.
48% :"The boundaries between states with different gun laws are open," Swanson said.
48% : The gun that the attacker was wielding when he went to a second dance studio appeared to be outfitted with a suppressor, said Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA School of Law and an expert on the Second Amendment who reviewed a screenshot of security footage from that location.
46% : While some policies, such as banning large-capacity magazines, can be done with no real costs for law enforcement, that is not the case for establishing a licensing process, he said, given the personnel and work required.
44% : "You might have strict gun laws on the books in Chicago, but Indiana has different gun laws.
37% : In Chicago, police and city officials said in a 2017 report that most "crime guns" came from outside Illinois, a state with strict gun laws.
26% :"Very determined people, even in a state with strong gun laws, can often find a way to get guns to commit acts of violence," said Daniel Webster, a professor with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

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