Senate leader Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) also urged approval of the gun bills. “If Florida had what we have in California, a gun violence restraining order, people could have acted,” Ting said. Democratic Assemblymen Rob Bonta of Oakland and David Chiu of San Francisco also said the Orlando mass shooting shows that action is overdue. On the eve of key votes on a package of 11 gun control bills, California lawmakers on Monday cited the Orlando massacre as a call for approval of the measures, and opponents of the measures accused the legislators of exploiting a tragedy. Gavin Newsom, who has proposed a gun control initiative for November, said the Orlando attack that killed 49 people and December’s terrorist shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 are brutal evidence that existing gun laws are not working.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 14, 2016 00:59 UTC