According to the latest statistics from the FBI, the Golden State also ranked number one in 2023 for active shooter incidents. It tallied eight such instances out of the 48 recorded last year in 26 U.S. states.
According to federal officials, these occurrences killed 105 and injured 139.
California’s tally doubled the next two closest states, Texas and Washington, which each recorded four.
By the FBI’s official definition, an active shooter situation is one where a single or multiple individuals are “engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Studies show these frightening scenes are most likely to develop in open areas such as roads, parks, neighborhoods and outdoor facilities.
This dubious honor is hardly a first for California, which also led the nation in 2021 with six active shooter incidents.
The unavoidable irony is that the state is firmly in the grasp of anti-gun activists and boasts perhaps the most stringent infringements on Second Amendment rights to be found. California sets the example for several other states, and laws suppressing gun rights that originate on the West Coast tend to reappear further in the East.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) makes much political hay by attempting to export what he considers to be successful gun policy across the nation. He went so far as to propose a constitutional amendment that would enshrine his state’s statutes to govern all Americans.
Of course, it has zero chances of passage in the foreseeable future, but that hardly deterred the ambitious governor from patting himself on the back.
Meanwhile, the most recent FBI numbers proved that piling meaningless restrictions on law-abiding gun owners does nothing to stop the criminal element from doing what it does.
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