Let's start with the Biden administration, which started calling for universal background checks and assault weapon bans from the jump.

Of course, let's keep in mind that this was carried out by a 14-year-old kid who is already too young to buy a gun. What's more, there's no way someone would sell a gun to someone that age believing it to be a lawful sale.

But let's not get too carried away here. After all, it wasn't just the Biden administration calling for gun control.

Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock also didn't miss an opportunity to make a similar call.

In a post to X, Warnock wrote, “Until we center the people and start a serious, bipartisan conversation in Washington & state capitols across the country to advance popular, commonsense gun safety reforms, the sad truth is it’s only a matter of time before this kind of tragedy comes knocking on your door.”

He used another post to say, “Mass shootings as routine aren’t the cost of freedom, they’re the cost of blind obstinance. We don’t have to live this way. If we refuse to act while our children are dying, and in a moment when no one is safe from rampant gun violence, then shame on us.”

These posts came before we knew pretty much anything about the shooting. It was just a blanket pronouncement that gun control was needed because, to the modern Democrats in office, guns are the only thing that can ever be responsible.

Now, I've addressed the stupidity of thinking universal background checks, or the lack thereof, had anything to do with this incident.

Let's talk about the assault weapon ban. I'm pretty sure Warnock was thinking about this and we know the Biden administration was. In this case, we know the killer did use an AR-style rifle, the kind of firearm that would be covered under any assault weapon ban proposal. However, I'm forced to ask, "So what?"

Does anyone think that if the killer couldn't have gotten one of those he'd have just given up his plan? Or would he have used another type of firearm?

"But AR-15s are particularly dangerous. You can kill so many more people with a gun like that."

Then why is it that the worst school shooting in American history is still Virginia Tech, where the killer used a couple of handguns? Or why is it that the Columbine, a name that still brings up feelings of sorrow and anguish for many, didn't have a single rifle used anywhere in that incident?

Mass murderers use AR-15s because the media has pushed this idea that they're the ideal murder-death-kill machine, that you can slaughter so many more innocent people with them than with a handgun, even though that's not inherently true.

But anti-gunners hate the AR-15 because it's an impediment to their overall desire, which is eventually civilian disarmament. Even then, though, these events will still happen. We've seen them happen in countries with far more extensive gun control laws than we have and we'll continue to see them in those places.

This is a sickness of the mind. This is a situation we need to look at what makes people do this and how we can avoid it.

But anti-gunners will never let a good crisis go to waste, and a mass shooting in Georgia is just too good for them to pass up.