2y ago

A California law banning the carrying of firearms in most public places is blocked again

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places was once again blocked from taking effect Saturday as a court case challenging it continues.

A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel dissolved a temporary hold on a lower court injunction blocking the law. The hold was issued by a different 9th Circuit panel and had allowed the law to go into effect Jan. 1.

Saturday’s decision keeps in place a Dec. 20 ruling by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney blocking the law. Carney said that it violates the Second Amendment and that gun rights groups would likely prevail in proving it unconstitutional.

The law, signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, prohibits people from carrying concealed guns in 26 types of places including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos. The ban applies regardless of whether a person has a concealed carry permit.

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2y ago

A California law banning the carrying of firearms in most public places is blocked again

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Why is it that states have nearly absolute power when it's something a Republican wants but if it's something a Democrat wants the state is a tyrant?
- Shhh, they don't understand nuance, you might hurt their brain with the knowledge that gun control started as a racist thing (and often still is bigoted, look at republicans whining about pride events arming up after that nightclub shooting a few months ago)
  
  Modern gun laws were never designed to be used against white people and some people wonder how we keep hearing how white conservatives shooters get guns legally despite flags like psych holds on their record.
- Probably because carrying and owning firearms is a right, turns out it's pretty hard to restrict people's rights.
  The same law would get blocked if it banned free speech in public
  
  I mean, it isn't. You name the right, I'll name how it's restricted.
  To go with your example, these are examples of illegal speech, i.e. restrictions on free speech in public:
  Fraud
  Defamation
  Threats
  
  That's ridiculous and you know it. The second amendment wasn't meant for cosplaying in the first place. You can tell if you actually read it.
- This is a specifically enshrined Constitutional right. That's literally the purpose of the Bill of Rights and states don't get to ignore them.
  
  Which well regulated militia are you in?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places was once again blocked from taking effect Saturday as a court case challenging it continues.
Saturday’s decision keeps in place a Dec. 20 ruling by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney blocking the law.
Carney said that it violates the Second Amendment and that gun rights groups would likely prevail in proving it unconstitutional.
Gavin Newsom, prohibits people from carrying concealed guns in 26 types of places including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos.
Following Saturday’s ruling his office issued a statement saying, “this dangerous decision puts the lives of Californians on the line.”
The president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, which sued to block the law, countered that “the politicians’ ploy to get around the Second Amendment has been stopped for now.”
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Good. It was a dumb law. It would stop no one from having or obtaining a gun. It wouldn't stop anyone who would possibly be thinking of doing harm with a gun from still having one in any of those areas. Its not like there's a controlled area at a park where you have to go through a metal detector and get frisked to go in it. At best it would mean anyone who was a "bad guy" with a gun would try extra hard to flee from police or shoot at a cop in order to get away if they were in one of the places where they're banned and about to be stopped and searched for anything else. It's not a law that would curb gun violence.

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