Of course, never mind that this is actually another data point showing that guns save lives, as school resource officers stopped the shooting. Never mind that even without something like a mandatory storage law, there was at least something prosecutors could find to charge the father with for allowing his son access to a firearm, especially after the son had been investigated for threatening a school shooting.

But nope.

They're pushing gun control.

Following a mass shooting at Apalachee High, where four people were killed and several others were injured, some Georgia politicians are calling for gun reform.

On Friday, Democrats at the State Capitol building urged Gov. Brian Kemp to call a special session of the legislature to enact new gun laws.

"How could a 14-year-old get access to this gun?" asked state Rep. Michelle Au (D-Johns Creek), who sponsored the Pediatric Safe Storage Act that failed to get a vote in the GOP-led legislature.  "I think safe storage in a very obvious, easy-to-understand way could have prevented this tragedy. I think there were a lot of missed opportunities here."

Why? We have a father who is accused of buying his son an AR-15 after being told by investigators that his son was believed to have threatened a school shooting. What in the world makes anyone think he'd have followed a mandatory storage law in the first place? He specifically told those investigators that he only had some hunting rifles and that his son didn't have access to them. He knew the right thing to do and still allegedly bought his son an AR-15 and didn't keep it out of the kid's hands.

All a mandatory storage law would do is give prosecutors something else to charge him with, but since he's facing murder charges, I think they found enough.

Gov. Kemp has already said the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting is not the time for politics, and he repeated it in a statement Friday. 

But, Democrats say there’s no better time, who have tried for years to rein in Georgia's gun laws.

Instead, Republicans led by Govs. Nathan Deal and Brian Kemp have expanded gun rights over the last decade – culminating with Kemp’s signing of a bill eliminating the permit requirement to carry a concealed firearm.

"Is there a convenient time to point out that the policy changes that you ignored over and over again could have prevented this tragedy from occurring?" asked state Rep. Saira Draper (D-Atlanta). 

If that were true, Draper might have a point. It's not, though.

First, as I noted, a mandatory storage law was unlikely to do anything because there's no evidence this kid's father would have followed it. None at all, especially considering the totality of circumstances leading up to the shooting.

The above-linked report argues that there have been 34 gun bills introduced in the last two years and the only one that passed was a GOP-led bill to ban discrimination against the gun industry. Yet again, there's no evidence to suggest that any of them would have stopped what happened.

That's the thing about both Democrats and the media, though I repeat myself. They constantly act like the laws they want to pass will not just be universally followed, as if someone planning a mass murder won't break other laws in the process. Let's not forget that the mother of the Sandy Hook shooter kept her guns locked up. He murdered her first to gain access to those guns, then took innocent lives at an elementary school.

Other mass murderers have followed gun control laws to the letter and still not been thwarted, such as the Lewiston killer or the Virginia Tech killer who wasn't deterred by Virginia's gun rationing law.

Democrats are seizing on the opportunity because they know they live in a pro-gun state and are praying they can change that. They know if they can't do it now, they'll likely never get the change again.

It didn't work after the Atlanta massage parlor shootings and it's unlikely to work now.