The most predictable response by the gun lobby and its political mouthpieces to calls for stricter gun laws in the wake of mass shootings is that tough laws don't work.
You've probably heard all the arguments: That we already have tough laws on the books, that the problem is they aren't enforced. Or that the legislation most often proposed wouldn't have stopped the latest perpetrator of the latest gun-related horror, such as Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos.
None of that is true, and California, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, is the proof.
