Another school shooting

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Hippikos

A few large ones, containing major cities, account for a very large percentage of the murders in the United States. As it happens, none of these very large counties have "shall issue" gun control laws.

Not true. Philadelphia County is a case in point...despite the lobbying of the mayor, the state shall-issue law preempts any county statute.

When "shall-issue" laws are passed, they are usually accompanied or preceded by state-level preemption statutes, otherwise the largely Democratically-controlled urban areas would pass their own local law requireing citizens disarm themselves when entering.