California is the state most hostile toward the right to keep and bear arms in the entire nation. Many want those laws enacted on the national stage. Some of those who want that don't even know how extensive those laws actually are. Granted, they may not care, but still...

However, as I noted earlier today, gun laws don't mean that people necessarily follow them.

Criminals, for example, violate the laws as a matter of their nature. That includes gun laws.

Football fans got a rather stark reminder recently of just how little bad guys care about gun laws.

California has more gun control than any state and a 17-year-old in custody over the Saturday shooting of San Francisco 49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall.

NBC Bay Area reporter Gia Vang noted, “49ers Ricky Pearsall has been shot in Union Square in an attempted robbery.

According to Sup. Peskin’s office, the suspect is in custody and Ricky is in stable condition. His office has been in touch with Central Command.”

She added, “Suspect is a 17-year-old male from Tracy, CA.”

Now, the question remains whether or not Pearsall will ever be able to play football again. Considering he just signed a $12.5 million contract, not being able to play would likely be costly, to say the least. Obviously, if it comes down to surviving and not playing versus the alternative of not surviving, I think we know which Pearsall would prefer.

Yet again, California has tons of gun control. They have universal background checks. They have mandatory storage laws. They've made it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy a firearm of any kind. It's illegal federally for anyone under the age of 18 to buy any guns and for anyone under 21 to buy a handgun.

Despite all of those laws and many more, this twerp was still have to get a firearm and shoot Pearsall in the chest.

Why is that?

Well, we know. Anti-gunners will blame the proliferation of firearms throughout the rest of the nation, claiming that California's laws work just fine, but with guns elsewhere in the nation, people like the shooter here can obtain firearms illegally.

Yet that's the rub, isn't it? Gun control laws are supposed to prevent just that. They're supposed to keep guns out of criminal hands. This idea that guns can only come from other states ignores the stacks of contraband coming into the country each and every day. Why would anyone believe guns wouldn't come in? If there's a market for it, someone will provide the goods to fill that need so long as they exist.

And guns most definitely exist.

What happened to Pearsall is terrible and I hope he can recover and return to the field. However, the gun control laws we're told would prevent this did nothing to stop a teenage child from getting a gun and shooting someone.

They never stop criminals from getting guns, really. At best, they delay it.

This one made headlines because the person shot was an NFL player, a first-round draft pick that everyone expected great things from. A lot more regular folks are shot in spite of the proliferation of gun control in the Golden State, and anti-gun advocates ignore those incidents or try to pretend the laws they advocate didn't fail spectacularly.