A lot of people read the headlines of a news story and don't delve any further. We don't have much of an attention span these days, and few of us have the ADHD to justify it.

But the trick these days isn't to inform people but to get them to click the article. Granted, you can't fit everything in a headline, otherwise there wouldn't be an article in the first place. The internet can't handle such a thing anyway.

When looking for stories today, I came across several about a Florida man selling guns to kids. There's absolutely no wonder why multiple outlets picked the story up, even if it doesn't hit the same sensationalism of a mass shooting. An adult selling firearms to kids is terrifying. What kind of a monster does that.

Needless to say, some saw the headline and used it to reinforce their belief that Florida needs more gun control.

But facts are missing from that headline that are kind of important.

A Florida man is wanted after a 13-year-old boy was shot last month, according to the Port Orange Police Department.

The shooting happened off Creekwater Boulevard on July 27. According to investigators, the shooting appeared to be an accident.

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In the aftermath, investigators discovered that the man — identified as Skylar Snyder, 18 — had sold two firearms to the minors involved in the shooting, one of which was used in the shooting of the 13-year-old, a police news release shows.

All three firearms are handguns.

Now, let's boil this down a bit to touch on some relevant facts that aren't in the article, which is really just straight news anyway.

First, all of the firearms involved are handguns. Federal law prohibits the sale of handguns to people under the age of 21.

Moreover, Florida law prohibits the sale of even long guns to anyone under 21.

So how did Snyder allegedly get the guns in the first place? He couldn't lawfully purchase them, which meant he had to use some other means, likely unlawful.

At this point, we don't know how he got the guns, but we do know that he's accused of selling them to children. No one believes a 13-year-old presented as a 21-year-old adult, which means Snyder knew what he was doing if he did, in fact, sell the guns to the kids in the first place. 

And that's the problem here, especially as many look at this as a reason for gun control.

There's already a ton of gun control laws being broken in this as it stands. Why in the world would one or two more laws suddenly change everything? If Snyder did in fact sell guns to kids, would universal background checks suddenly make him pause? Only a complete idiot would believe they would. He already knew he was (allegedly) breaking the law and did it anyway. Another law isn't even a bump in the road for someone who would do that.

So while the headlines miss these important facts, it's important that we remember them as we go forward. We're likely to see this example brought up in our debates on gun rights in the future, so be prepared.