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Well, it’s a good thing that we have laws that forbid criminals, especially felons, to possess firearms, magazines and ammunition. Also, I’m sure that these criminals followed California’s State law that forbid them from having any magazines with a capacity of greater than 10 rounds.
Also, being California, I’m sure that all the firearms used was from their firearm’s approval list.
Seriously, I wonder how many of these criminals had previous felonies dropped by the State?
How many were released from prisons way too early or actually never were sent to prison?
How many of these criminals never made it to prison, but only given “supervised” probation?
California doesn't have much tolerance for violent crimes, I'm not sure why you think 'previous felonies are dropped by the state' that just doesn't happen, there are two pathways to get a felony off your record; pardon or expungement and neither are available to most felons. I'm not sure what 'way too early' means for release from prison but you can check the California penal code for sentencing information. I know it's popular to say that California is "soft on crime" but it's really not much different than any other state. I have a friend whose adult son committed a home invasion robbery in South Carolina, he was armed and threatened the occupants, he was sentenced to 5 years and with work credit and good conduct credit he will serve a little over a year.
California seems to be so dangerous these days. So many violent incidents there.
Ok, here is where I totally agree with Middle age Mom. It's definitely nowhere near where it was in the 80-90's.
That being said, most of the posters exposed to the risk (out at 1AM at clubs etc.) weren't out of gradeschool or even born back then so it's *new* to them.
So while it's only 40% as bad as 30 years ago, it's twice as bad as it was three years ago in some parts of the country.
Make your own choices, but let's be transparent about the new levels of violence.
P.S. BLM...a raging success. I'd point this out to their leadership but, there is no one at this time. Apparently people don't want to be near the epicenter of that evolving felony tax and embezzelment case.
Homicides back in the early 90's were about 23k a year.
That decreased to more like 15-16k in recent years and then went up to 21.5k in 2020 and 22.5k in 2021.
We can talk about population ratios all we want but that's an "extra" 5-6k killings a year and many times that number shot and trying to move on with life despite injury.
As of this morning at least 2 suspects still at large, a stolen handgun recovered, they acknowledge a fight took place prior and the club had started closing at 1:30am
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I'd point this out to their leadership but, there is no one at this time. Apparently people don't want to be near the epicenter of that evolving felony tax and embezzelment case.
