More gun laws wrong response to massacre

This editorial appeared in The Orange County Register, Dec. 27, 2015.

Almost all mass murders committed with guns prompt calls for tougher gun laws. The problem is, in pretty much every recent mass shooting in America, any newly proposed gun control law would not have stopped the crime, even if perfectly enforced.

In this month’s horrific attack in San Bernardino, the guns were legally purchased, then illegally transferred and altered. California’s gun laws already encompass most of the supposed “commonsense gun safety” laws President Obama and his party call for nationally.

The state already...