California cannot ban gun owners from having detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, a federal judge ruled Friday.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez won’t take effect immediately. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, has already filed a notice to appeal the ruling. The ban is likely to remain in effect while the case is still pending.

This is the second time Benitez has struck down California’s law banning certain types of magazines. The first time he struck it down — way back in 2017 — an appeals court ended up reversing his decision.

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      Summarised by Chat GPT:

      The article is an interview with two professors, Jillian Peterson and James Densley, who have conducted a comprehensive study on mass shooters in the US. They have created a database of every mass shooter since 1966 and interviewed some of them, as well as their families and friends. They have also talked to people who planned a mass shooting but changed their mind.

      The main findings of their research are:

      • Mass shooters share four common traits: childhood trauma, social isolation, suicidal thoughts and access to firearms.
      • Mass shooters often have a crisis point that triggers their violent behavior, such as a breakup, a job loss or a humiliation.
      • Mass shooters are not born evil or mentally ill, but rather they are shaped by their life experiences and circumstances.
      • Mass shooters can be prevented if they are identified and treated early, before they reach the point of no return.

      The article also discusses the challenges and implications of their research, such as:

      • The need for more funding and political will to address the root causes of mass shootings, such as mental health, social support and gun control.
      • The importance of changing the narrative and language around mass shooters, such as avoiding terms like “monster” or “lone wolf” that dehumanize them and obscure their motives.
      • The role of the media and the public in reducing the glorification and copycat effect of mass shootings, such as not naming the shooter or showing their manifesto.
      • The potential for using their database and methodology to study other forms of violence, such as domestic terrorism or hate crimes.
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        Mass shooters are the reason cited for most gun laws though. Detachable magazines, full-auto, short-barreled weapons, etc.

        The issue is one party hates social programs but loves guns, and the other party hates guns specifically because the other one loves them.

        I don’t understand the Democrats" hatred of firearms. All their attempts to go after them are ineffective at preventing gun violence.

        Meanwhile, pro-gun people are one of the largest single-issue voting blocks in the county. So all the Dems are really doing is handing votes over to Republicans.

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          Meanwhile, pro-gun people are one of the largest single-issue voting blocks in the county. So all the Dems are really doing is handing votes over to Republicans.

          This is a point that cannot be stressed enough.

          As of 2022, Iowa had a ballot initiative for codifying a strict scrutiny clause on restrictions on the right to bear arms in our state constitution. We have a ~3-way split of Democrat, Republican, and Independent voters. The measure passed with ~66% support.

          On an entirely unrelated note, our Republican governor won her election with ~58% the vote against a Democrat pushing - admittedly mild - restrictions on firearms.

          Blue team isn’t going to lose blue team die-hard votes by dropping these points. They are, however, demonstrably alienating Independents who reject such restrictions.

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        Ah, yes. Both sides.

        Let’s not pretend Blue team is absent of any responsibility or blame here - doing so does them a disservice in withholding the necessary pressures to change and do better, enabling the exact mediocrity and incompetence currently on display.

        It may shock you to realize that one can correctly lay fault at the hands of a party while understanding that party is overall less problematic than its opponent.

        And, of course, the only problem with guns is mass shooters.

        It was, in point of fact, the thing I was responding to.

        I’m not sure if you’d actually read that source let alone much else on the subject - do you believe there is zero overlap between the general pressures toward violence (firearm or otherwise) and the observed pathway to becoming a mass shooter?