Case: 19-56004, 06/02/2020, ID: 11708752, DktEntry: 43, Page 1 of 40 No. 19-56004 IN THE United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit STEVEN RUPP, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. XAVIER BECERRA, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of California, Defendant-Appellee. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California No. 8:17-cv-00746 (Staton, J.) BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE BRADY IN SUPPORT OF APPELLEE XAVIER BECERRA AND AFFIRMANCE Rukesh A. Korde Isaac D. 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CHAPUT Counsel for Amicus Curiae Brady June 2, 2020 i Case: 19-56004, 06/02/2020, ID: 11708752, DktEntry: 43, Page 4 of 40 TABLE OF CONTENTS CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT .................................................. i TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................. ii TABLE OF AUTHORITIES .......................................................................... iii INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE .................................................................. 1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT .................................. 2 ARGUMENT .................................................................................................. 6 I. Assault Weapons Make Mass Shootings Much Worse. ....................... 6 II. Mass Shootings Impose Vast Public Health Burdens. ......................... 8 A. Survivors and Victims’ Loved Ones Commit Suicide. ................ 9 B. Mass Shootings Cause Many Kinds of Mental Health Traumas. .................................................................................... 11 C. The Victimization of Children Exacerbates the Effects of Mass Shootings. ......................................................................... 17 D. Mass Shootings Severely Harm Communities. ........................ 20 III. Mass Shootings Impose Significant Social and Economic Burdens. ............................................................................................. 22 A. Mass Shootings Severely Damage the Finances of All Victims and Communities. ....................................................... 22 B. Mass Shootings Force Taxpayers to Spend Millions. ............... 25 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 29 ii Case: 19-56004, 06/02/2020, ID: 11708752, DktEntry: 43, Page 5 of 40 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Page(s) Cases English v. State, 35 Tex. 473 (1871) ..................................................................................... 4 Gallinger v. Becerra, 898 F.3d 1012 (9th Cir. 2018)................................................................... 4 Heller v. Dist. of Columbia, 670 F.3d 1244 (D.C. Cir. 2011) ................................................................. 7 Hill v. Colorado, 530 U.S. 703 (2000) ................................................................................. 5 Hill v. State of Ga., 53 Ga. 472 (1874) ...................................................................................... 4 Other Authorities Dave Altimari, Sandy Hook Two Years Later: Where Is the Aid Going, courant.com (Dec. 14, 2014), https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-sandy- hook-shooting-two-years-later-20141214-story.html ............................ 28 Louis-Philippe Beland & Dongwoo Kim, The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance, 38 Educ. Evaluation & Pol’y Anal. 113 (Mar. 2016) ........................... 18, 19 C.J. Chivers, et al., With AR-15s, Mass Shooters Attack With the Rifle Firepower Typically Used by Infantry Troops, nytimes.com (Feb. 28, 2018), https://nyti.ms/2CNr0dx. ........................ 6 Attorney General Holder Announces 1.5 Million Reimbursement Support Efforts to Victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, U.S. Dep’t of Justice (Dec. 17, 2013), https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney- general-holder-announces-15-million-reimburse-support- efforts-victims-sandy-hook .................................................................... 26 - iii - Case: 19-56004, 06/02/2020, ID: 11708752, DktEntry: 43, Page 6 of 40 A Nation of Survivors: The Toll of Gun Violence in America, Everytown for Gun Safety (Feb. 1, 2019) .......................................... 23, 24 Ten Years of Mass Shootings in the United States, Everytown for Gun Safety (Nov. 21, 2019) ........................................................ 2, 7, 17 Manny Fernandez and Sarah Mervosh, Soccer Coach in El Paso Shooting Dies 9 Months Later, nytimes.com (Apr. 27, 2020), https://nyti.ms/2KEWSHG ........................................... 6 Ashley Fetters, Lasting Grief After a Mass Shooting, theatlantic.com (Mar. 28, 2019), https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/g rief-school-shootings-suicide/585865/ .................................................... 9 Mark Follman, How the Aurora Mass Shooting Cost More Than $100 Million, motherjones.com (Apr. 2015), https://www.motherjones.com/kevin- drum/2015/04/aurora-mass-shooting-cost-more-than-100- million/ ................................................................................................... 28 Mark Follman, et al., The True Cost of Gun Violence in America, motherjones.com (Apr. 15, 2015), https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost- of-gun-violence-in-america/ ............................................................ 27, 28 Gaby Galvin, Las Vegas Shooting Will Likely Cost Millions, usnews.com (Oct. 5, 2017), https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-10-05/las- vegas-shooting-victims-facing-millions-of-dollars-in- medical-expenses.............................................................................. 24, 25 Faiz Gani, et al., Emergency Department Visits for Firearm- Related Injuries In The United States, 2006-14, 36 Health Aff. 10, 1729 (2017). ............................................................... 23 Financial Toll of the Las Vegas Massacre, Giffords Law Center ................ 25 Emily Goldmann & Sandro Galea, Mental Health Consequences of Disasters, 35 Ann. Rev. Pub. Health 169 (2014) .........................passim Anthony Green & Donna Cooper, Auditing the Cost of the Virginia Tech Massacre, Ctr. for Am. Progress (Apr. 2012) ............ 26, 27 - iv - Case: 19-56004, 06/02/2020, ID: 11708752, DktEntry: 43, Page 7 of 40 William Hudenko, et al., The Relationship Between PTSD and Suicide, U.S. Dep’t of Veterans Aff., Nat’l Ctr. for PTSD, https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/cooccurring/sui cide_ptsd.asp .......................................................................................... 10 Gina Kolata, Surgeons Labored to Save the Wounded in El Paso Mass Shooting, nytimes.com (Aug. 9, 2019), https://nyti.ms/2YUGiMt ........................................................................ 8 Heather Littleton, et al., Longitudinal evaluation of the relationship between maladaptive trauma coping and distress: examination following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, 24 Anxiety Stress Coping 3 (May 2011) ..................... 15, 18 Sarah R. Lowe & Sandro Galea, The Mental Health Consequences of Mass Shootings, 18 Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 62 (2017). .................................... 18, 20, 21 Jonathan Lowy & Kelly Sampson, The Right Not to Be Shot: Public Safety, Private Guns, and the Constellation of Constitutional Liberties, 14 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 187 (2016). ....................................................... 11 Gary Martin, Feds Will Reimburse Nevada $2M for Las Vegas Shooting Costs, reviewjournal.com (Jun. 25, 2018), https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/feds-will- reimburse-nevada-2m-for-las-vegas-shooting-costs/ ............................ 26 Patricia Mazzei & Miriam Jordan, ‘You Can’t Put It Behind You’: School Shootings Leave Long Trail of Trauma, nytimes.com (Mar. 28, 2019), https://nyti.ms/2UYsb3C .......................16 Leah Mills, Twenty years after Columbine, mass shooting survivors help others heal, Reuters.com (April 17, 2019), https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-columbine- survivors-widerimage/twenty-years-after-columbine-mass- shooting-survivors-help-others-heal-idUSKCN1RT21X ........................ 20 Lynsey R. Miron, et al., Differential Predictors of Transient Stress Versus Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Evaluating Risk Following Targeted Mass Violence, 45 Behav. Therapy 791 (2014) ...................................................... 12, 14, 21 - v - Case: 19-56004, 06/02/2020, ID: 11708752, DktEntry: 43, Page 8 of 40 Steve Mirsky, The Federal Government Makes It Ridiculously Hard to Study Gun Violence and Medical Marijuana, scientificamerican.com