Trying To Keep California's Assault Weapons Ban From Falling to the Crazies

An eternal battle against the Gun Nuts:

The deaths were the most at any elementary school in the U.S. to that point.

The tragedy prompted the California Legislature to pass the nation’s first assault weapons ban, an effort to keep something of that magnitude from happening again.

Five years later, the federal government would, temporarily, instate a similar ban. Seven other states eventually followed California’s lead.

Now, a decision by a federal judge in San Diego threatens to undo the landmark law California passed in response to the deaths of young Rathanar Or, Ram Chun, Sokhim An, Oeun Lim and Thuy Tran. 

For those who saw what happened on the cold Tuesday morning in 1989, it was one more reminder of gun brutality that never seems to end.