Gun safety ballot measure could lead to reduced bloodshed throughout California.
All of California’s gun control laws couldn’t save Jose Hernandez III, one of the nine victims of the Valley Transportation Authority mass shooting. Despite our best efforts to achieve gun safety, there is still a catastrophic cost. It is a bill we all must pay.
If our gun laws are so strict, why is there still so much bloodshed? As a district attorney, I know that many well-meaning people have written well-meaning laws. However, many of those laws have been blunted by the bitter politics of gun control — leaving us with only futility and funerals. Another way to prevent gun violence is by raising awareness about the basics of gun safety. GVPA will make it the law that gun owners must take at least four hours of gun safety training and pass an in-person test. That’s roughly equivalent to what we require of every registered car owner in California.
As Silicon Valley’s DA, I believe in and practice innovation. For instance, my office is a national leader in the prompt testing of rape kits. We achieved that level of justice and safety by implementing state-of-the-art technology and dogged efficiency. We can have the same results by testing all firearms and all shell casings recovered from crime scenes.
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