I get that anti-gun groups are going to be anti-gun.
They have a right to their opinion. They even have the right to try to spin things however they want via their social media accounts. They do that all the time, actually, and earlier this week, I called them out over what all they failed to mention over both the shooting at a bar in Austin and one at a concert venue in Cincinnati.
After all, while they made both out to be some failure of insufficient gun control, they omitted that both were gun-free zones.
Well, the US Department of Justice issued a press release on Tuesday about the arrest of two suspects in that shooting in Cincinnati, and guess what?
Two Cincinnati men previously arrested on local charges related to a shooting on March 1 at Riverfront Live now face federal charges.
Franeek Cobb, 24, and Derrick Long, 29, are each charged federally with illegally possessing a firearm or ammunition as a convicted felon.
“Gun violence in Cincinnati must end,” said U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II. “Our top priority is protecting our communities and holding accountable those who threaten them. If you pull a trigger in an illegal act of violence or otherwise illegally possess a firearm or ammunition, rest assured we will do everything we can to send you to federal prison.”
“I am pleased with the aggressive and expeditious manner in which this offense was investigated. The full force of law enforcement — including the Cincinnati Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI, prosecutors, and the United States Attorney’s Office — worked in close partnership to bring these alleged violent criminals to justice,” said ATF Special Agent in Charge Jorge Rosendo. “This level of coordination and commitment is exactly what makes our communities safer for everyone.”
...As previously convicted felons, Cobb and Long are prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition. Cobb has a 2022 felony conviction of having weapons while under disability. Long has several prior felony convictions, including two separate cases involving trafficking in heroin, trafficking in fentanyl, failure to comply, carrying concealed weapons, arson and receiving stolen property.
Each defendant faces up to 15 years in prison.
So we've got two guys with felony convictions who, somehow, got guns in violation of not just state laws, but federal ones as well, who then went into a gun-free zone and started shooting people for whatever reason.
It should be noted that, as of this writing, Giffords has not addressed this via their X account, plus they still have replies locked so no one can point it out to those who should see the post.
Weird, ain't it?
What we've got here isn't a failure of insufficient gun controls, as there was no way either of these two could lawfully buy a gun in the first place, and one had a history of getting guns when he wasn't supposed to, but a failure of existing gun control laws to actually do what we were told they would do.
It's funny how often that turns out to be the case, isn't it?
Will Giffords address this? Will they remove the post on X? Will they acknowledge that the reason they keep saying we need more gun control is that everything else their side has demanded and gotten didn't work worth a damn?
Of course, they won't. On any of it.
They'd much rather prattle on unchallenged, pretend everything works just the way they say it does, and ignore anything that is inconvenient to their cause.
Yes, they have a right to their opinion and the right to express it as they see fit.
They don't have a right to their own facts, though. That's not how facts work.
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