'California has arguably the nation’s toughest gun laws. What else is needed? 'We need other states to catch up to California,' Becerra says. Other states should start by following Mara Elliott’s red flag.' From columnist LATimesSkelton:
Mara Elliott was dropping her two boys off at school when she heard every parent’s worst nightmare over the car radio. Students her children’s age had been massacred by a crazed shooter in Connecticut.At the time — December 2012 — Elliott was a San Diego deputy city attorney specializing in finance and contracts. “Guns were not in my lane.”
Elliott, a UC Santa Barbara graduate with cherished memories of her college life, also was motivated by the 2014 killing of seven people and wounding of 13 by a young mentally ill misfit in the campus community of Isla Vista. Elliott was the first to create a restraining order program. So far, she has obtained roughly 300 orders and 400 firearms have been seized, including roughly 40 assault weapons.
Another told family members he was going to kill Muslims. He also hated administrators at the school he attended and wanted to “kill them all.” “The poster child was Parkland,” Wintemute adds , referring to last year’s killing of 17 at a Florida high school by an expelled student firing an assault weapon. “An acquaintance of the shooter went to the FBI and said, ‘I think this guy is going to shoot up the school.’ Nothing got done and he shot up the school.”
“We’re trying to get guns out of the hands of bad people,” says the author, Assemblyman Phil Ting . “It makes sense that people have a right to go to work or school without getting killed.”
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