Constitutional Law
Sep. 19, 2025
California's leadership on gun reform is at a sensitive place
The tragic shooting of Charlie Kirk underscores the urgent need for California to expand the "sensitive places" doctrine, using the narrow constitutional path left by the Supreme Court to keep firearms out of civic spaces where democracy and public life depend on safety.
Charlie Kirk was outspoken in his defense of expansive gun rights, even suggesting that the deaths caused by firearms were an acceptable "cost" of protecting the Second Amendment. Last week, in a grim twist of fate, he was shot and killed on a university campus while answering a question about shootings. The tragedy underscores that gun violence is not theoretical. It is an immediate disruption to civic life, and it demands solutio...
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