'Repugnant': Federal judge blocks new California law that would bar guns in many public places

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : In his decision to block the law Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney wrote that the law's "coverage is sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.
47% : Democrats had championed the law as a workaround to the Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn.
45% : "The law would have precluded licensed gun carriers from having their guns on public transportation, at public gatherings and special events, in parks and at playgrounds, in stadiums and arenas and casinos, in medical facilities, religious institutions or financial institutions, anywhere where liquor is sold and consumed, in all other private commercial spaces where the owner has not explicitly posted a sign to the contrary, and in many parking areas, among other places.
44% : He said an injunction against the law taking effect as litigation in the case continues was warranted because those suing the state over the measure are likely to win their case and would suffer "irreparable harm" if they weren't allowed to carry their firearms in the meantime.
42% : "The challenged SB2 provisions unconstitutionally deprive this group of their constitutional right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense.
40% : vs. Bruen last year, which held that sweeping restrictions on licensed gun holders to carry their weapons in public were unconstitutional, in part because they stripped those people of their constitutional right to self-defense.
39% : "This law was an attempt to make permits to carry a firearm to defend yourself or your family useless because permit holders wouldn't be able to drive across town without passing through a prohibited area and breaking the law.

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