The gun laws of California[3][4] are some of the most restrictive in the United States. A Handgun Safety Certificate—now a Firearm Safety Certificate—obtained by passing a written test, is required for handgun purchases, although there are exemptions to this requirement.[5] (This requirement was extended to long guns on January 1, 2014.)[6] Handguns sold by dealers must be "California legal" by being listed on the state's Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale.[7] This roster, which requires handgun manufacturers to pay a fee and submit specific models for safety testing, has become progressively more stringent over time and is currently the subject of a federal civil rights lawsuit on the basis that it is a de facto ban on new handgun models.[8] Private sales of firearms must be done through a licensed dealer. All firearm sales are recorded by the state, and have a ten-day waiting period. Unlike most other states, California has no provision in its state constitution that explicitly guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.[1] The California Supreme Court has maintained that most of California's restrictive gun laws are constitutional, based on the fact that the state's constitution does not explicitly guarantee private citizens the right to purchase, possess, or carry firearms. However, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions of Heller (2008) and McDonald (2010) established that the Second Amendment applies to all states within the Union, and many of California's gun laws are now being challenged in the federal courts.[9]

California Penal Code §12031 defines what constitutes a loaded weapon).

Semi-automatic firearms that the state has classified as assault weapons, .50 BMG caliber rifles, and magazines that can hold more than ten rounds of ammunition may not be sold in California. Possession of automatic firearms, and of short-barreled shotguns and rifles, is generally prohibited.

California is a "may issue" state for permits to carry concealed guns. The willingness of issuing authorities in California ranges from No Issue in most urban areas to Shall Issue in rural counties. Additionally, the issuing authority can also impose restrictions on the CCW permit-holder, such as limiting concealed carry only to the purposes listed on the approved CCW permit application. However, concealed carry permits are valid statewide, regardless of where they were issued. This creates a situation where residents in presumptively No Issue locations such as Los Angeles and San Francisco cannot lawfully carry a concealed firearm, but residents from other counties with more permissive CCW issuance policies can lawfully carry within these same jurisdictions. California does not recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states, and non-residents are generally forbidden from obtaining a California concealed carry permit.

Just saying

Going for the record.

I wonder if Wayne LaPierre will miss out on his school shooting bonus.

They give 24/7 coverage to one shooter, then all the other crazies looking for their 15 minutes of fame decide to do copycat crimes.

The media needs to stop telling the names of these people in their reports, and limit the amount of airtime given to those reports. Make these losers realize that they won't gain notoriety and fame by shooting up a school. It's been an epidemic ever since Columbine.

Read the "manifestos" of these psychos...every time, it's somebody looking to get their name in the news. Or, as they too often say on the internet, they want to "Beat Cho's high score" (i.e., the Virginia Tech shooter).

There's simply no realistic way we'll ever get rid of hundreds of millions of guns, even if guns were banned tomorrow. It's no more feasible than the neo-cons' idea of deporting all the illegal immigrants. So taking away the "glory" aspect of these crimes would be one way of making mass shootings less desirable to fame seekers.

And--while I do NOT think kindergarten teachers should be packing heat--I do believe we need to have armed, well-trained security guards at our schools. Large amounts of money are protected by armed guards; our students' lives are far more priceless, and deserving of that level of protection. If it's good enough for Sasha and Malia, it's good enough for the rest of our kids.

Many of us have faith that by one way or another those nasty, evil, murderous guns are going to disappear, in time. Maybe they aren't nasty, evil, murderous themselves, but their owners are.

We need room for good people on this planet.

You also hit on the main problem; theres no way youre going to get rid of 300M weapons. Not to mention that criminals wont turn theirs in anyway

The media should put it on page B3 next to a story about a traffic accident?

And while we're at it, let's censor those nasty song lyrics and video games and books with depictions of violent acts (Let's ban In Cold Blood).

No. Hell. No.

Not "why?" We already know that: Most of our politicians are gutless cowards!

These three attacks got mentioned because our attention is still heightened following the UCC shooting. But even a cursory look at the reports, which must be taken as preliminary and subject to error, suggests that these 3 incidents are not much like the UCC shooting.

This is an attack of a daughter on her mother... little information has been provided, but it was a pellet gun, not a firearm.

The Texas attack involved an attack of 3 men on two men... there is a suggestion that this shooting was motivated by another shooting days earlier near the same location that had caused only minor injuries.

The Northern Arizona U attack followed a confrontation between two groups, with the shooter acting out a revenge for an alleged beating by the shooting victims.

Three attacks aren't anything from which to make sweeping generalizations. But they do suggest multiple exceptions to the stereotypes that recently drove public comments and suggested policy making that scapegoat all these school shootings on the mentally ill are too narrow to address many of these violence acts

Here's where any sane person would begin the discussion of gun violence:

Zero guns = Zero gun deaths.

You want "some" guns, then decide how many gun deaths you're willing to live with. We already know how many people will die, the statistical evidence is public knowledge. Just decide how many deaths is okeydoke with you.