That’s How It Is Supposed To Work
City laws can’t override state law. Deal with it.
Shots are fired at a school. A gunman threatens and takes the lives of the young people who represent our future, and adults charged with preparing them for that future.
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare — and every mayor’s, too.
Keeping our people safe is our highest responsibility. If our residents don’t feel safe — safe at school, safe in parks, safe at work, safe at home — nothing else matters.
As mayors, we’re elected to take on big challenges. Infrastructure and public works, water quality and energy efficiency, law enforcement and civil rights, and making our cities competitive in the 21st century economy.
Atop that list should be smart, common-sense local firearms laws that keep guns out of the wrong hands, keep guns out of public spaces, and keep the threat of gun violence and mass shootings at bay.
There’s no doubt about the need for thoughtful new gun ordinances. Mayors across the country are ready to pass them, enhancing public safety in our cities.
But we can’t — because our states have banned us from enacting local gun laws.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.khou.com/article/news/nation-world/mayors-we-want-to-pass-gun-safety-laws-but-the-nra-our-state-legislatures-wont-let-us/532388068
No city should make laws more restrictive than its respective state’s law because every law abiding gun owner would have to know the laws of every city in his state to travel through his own state. Visitors would also be subject to involuntarily violating some city law that was unknown to them because people look to state laws when traveling. Gun laws made by individual cities just makes being a responsible law abiding gun owner too convoluted.
The problems with the OP’s thoughts and wishes are that such laws don’t work. We see it often.
Keep guns out of the wrong hands? Just whose hands are those? We have seen that even those with obvious problems can still get guns legally, because trhe left doesn’t want to follow the laws already in place.
Keep guns out of public spaces? Metal detectors in shopping malls? Really?
“(K)eep the threat of gun violence and mass shootings at bay.” How, exactly? Who watches the watchers?
It becomse obvious that what he really wants is a ban on guns. That worked so well for alcohol and drugs, so let’s do it for guns, too.