As I've said a fair bit throughout the day, I know that the aftermath of mass shootings results in calls for gun control. What happened in Minneapolis doesn't even really rise to the typical standard of a mass shooting, but two kids are dead and 17 other people were wounded, which means it's bad enough that I won't get into semantics right now.
But it would be nice for there to be something approaching sensibility in the calls for gun control. There's no such thing as "common sense" gun-grabbing, as I noted earlier today, but there should be at least some attempt that looks like addressing the shooting.
Or, you could be Ilhan Omar and go in a completely different direction.
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar cited today’s school shooting— committed by a Minnesota resident — and used it to demand federal gun control, even though the facts contradict her warning about outsiders bringing guns into the state.
A shooter opened fire during morning Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday while kindergarten through eighth-grade students attended, officials and news reports said. During an appearance on ” The Weeknight,” Omar used the tragedy to argue that Minnesota’s strict gun laws mean little without federal action, warning that residents from neighboring states could bring firearms across state lines and endanger her constituents.
“In Minnesota, we have strong gun laws, but Indiana is not that far away from us. And so we have to recognize as, you know, people who live in the United States, you know, a community like Minneapolis or just the state of Minnesota taking action does not prevent our neighbor from coming and harming one of our community members,” Omar said.
That's right. It doesn't really matter what Minnesota does because Indiana won't do what Minnesota wants it to do.
These are the same people who tend to claim that the issue with preemption is that it doesn't let local governments decide what works for them, yet here they are saying that every state needs to conform, regardless of what works for them.
Yeah, my days of taking Omar seriously are...well, they're not even close to reaching a middle, actually.
The killer in this case didn't come from out of state. He lived there. His mother worked for that school, for crying out loud. He was raised right there in Minnesota, from what we can tell as of this writing.
To make the claim that we need federal legislation because of something that happened exclusively within the borders of Minnesota, which showed that Minnesota's current gun laws failed to stop a mass shooting, is especially stupid of her.
And that's saying something.
Even if you did somehow pass national gun control laws, the truth is that criminals will bypass them because they're criminals. Luigi Mangione is accused of building a gun and a suppressor and killing a guy. He could have bought a gun legally before his arrest, but he didn't, because criminals don't.
Plus, there are tons of massacres that have happened over the years that didn't involve firearms at all, and that always gets missed or willfully ignored. With Omar, it could go either way.
This is the dumbest argument I've seen from an anti-gunner, and we'll see it again. That's the truly stupid thing here.
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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