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“Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and
homeland defense equipment,” US District Judge Roger T. Benitez wrote.
In another section, he downplayed the risk of an assault rifle being used in a mass shooting as an “infinitesimally rare event.” He added: “More people have died from the Covid-19 vaccine than mass shootings in California.”
Benitez has consistently ruled against California’s gun control laws by using these sorts of attention-grabbing analogies. In a March 2019 ruling against the state’s limits on large-capacity magazines, Benitez opened with the dramatic stories of three women who ran out of ammo while shooting home intruders none of which took place in California. In a page 5 footnote, he cited Kristallnacht, the 1938 night of anti-Semitic violence in Nazi Germany.
US District Judge Roger T. Benitez has consistently ruled against California's gun control laws by using eye-opening analogies. So who is the 70-year-old man behind these rulings?
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Speaking to France24, Ramaphosa said SA was ready for a new wave of infections, should it come.
“We’ve been seeing the emergence of what we think could be a third wave coming through,” he said.
“We are watching it very closely. If it comes, we are ready. We are gearing up a whole number of measures. The issue of a lockdown is something that will only be looked at, depending on the severity of the third wave.”
Proposed measures
The SA Alcohol Policy Alliance (Saapa) has proposed 10 measures for the government to avoid a complete ban.
The measures include restricting access to alcohol, banning all alcohol advertisements except at point of sale, banning special reduced price offers for alcoholic beverages, and reducing the number of people at gatherings to 50 indoors and 100 outdoors.