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My name is Susan Orphanos. My son was to tell her, we lost him last night at the borderline shooting.

My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn't come home last night and I don't want prayers.

I don't want thoughts. I want gun control and I hope to God. Nobody else sends me any more prayers. I want gun control.

No more guns. Thank you.

It depends on who you ask, but California is generally considered to have the strongest gun loss in the country.

It has some of the most comprehensive background checks. It has really strong child access prevention laws.

It also restricts concealed carry permitting and it has strict rules around domestic violence.

And then they have a very strong extreme risk protection order law, which is traditionally called a red flag law.

And these are laws where family members or police can essentially petition to have somebody's guns taken away.

Sometimes temporarily because they're posing some sort of risk. This can be a risk of suicide or risk of any kind of violence.

And then finally they have pretty strict laws around assault weapons and military style weaponry.

Hermann Lopez, you cover guns at Vox. You've covered a lot of mass shootings. Why weren't all of these laws enough to stop the shooter in 1000 Oaks last week?

So I think there are a couple of things. One is that California is still in the United States. And that means that there are a ton of guns out there.

So even if you put all these strict gun laws in place, these guns can flow from other states. The US currently has more guns than people.

The second thing is that the laws that are in place often aren't enforced as well as you would expect them to be or want them to be.

So I think one key example here is the extreme protection order, like these red flag laws. California has one in place.

And what we know about this guy who carried out this shooting, he had some red flags in place.

We've had several contacts with Mr. Long over the years. He was a victim of a battery at a local bar in 2015.

In April of this year, deputies were called to his house for a subject disturbing. He was somewhat irate, acting a little irrationally.

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