The anti-gun voices are all very loud right now. They're going to stay loud after the shooting at a Park Avenue office building. I can't say that I'm surprised, even if it is funny how this shooting made network news, and the armed citizen stopping a mass stabbing in Michigan didn't, really.
Weird.
Anyway, a lot of pro-gun voices are speaking out right now. One of those is the founder of Women for Gun Rights, Dianna Muller, who sent this statement out on Tuesday:
“As we await more details about the senseless and heartbreaking tragedy in New York that left four innocent people— including a law enforcement officer—dead, we are once again met with the predictable and baseless calls from the gun control lobby for more bans, restrictions, and failed policies. From so-called ‘assault weapon’ bans to Red Flag laws and magazine limits, the anti-gun activists are wasting no time pushing their agenda.
“But here’s what we know: criminals—not inanimate objects—are responsible for death and destruction. Focusing on the tools instead of the individual is not just misguided, it’s dangerous.
“We must confront evil at its source and hold violent offenders accountable. At the same time, we must empower law-abiding Americans with the training and tools they need to protect themselves and others. Because when seconds count, you are your own first responder.”
Let's understand that Muller makes a good point here.
While there was an armed police officer in that lobby, there wasn't likely to be another armed individual anywhere in that office. New York state law is hell on armed citizens, which means that after the officer was shot, there was no one left to take him down.
The gun isn't the issue. This was the kind of person who would have found another way to lash out. His was apparently a rage-fueled rampage where he blamed a sports league for his own history of injuries--not necessarily without cause, mind you, but still not enough to justify murder--and when he got off on the wrong floor, he just started killing people.
Allegedly.
That's a broken mind and a broken soul. He'd have found another way to hurt people in the name of his rage.
As Muller points out, the gun control lobby is screaming for regulation, just as they always do. She's more polite than me in discussing it, though, because I find their actions absolutely disgusting. They always use the bodies of the slain as a soapbox, but God forbid we talk about gun rights in the immediate aftermath of anything.
What they don't get is that, at best, they're seeing things with the benefit of hindsight. Nothing they're calling for would necessarily have done anything. Yeah, the guy was suicidal...three years ago. The red flag order likely would have lapsed by now, so claiming that would have stopped this is idiotic, and that is just one of many examples of calls that ignore reality in the name of convenience.
It's a shame that we have to go through this every time there's a mass killing. Gun control wouldn't stop such a thing, of course--Columbine was during the Assault Weapon Ban era, after all--but some people can't let a good crisis go to waste, even if it makes them disgusting human beings.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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