The Jacksonville shooting in perspective


The well-written and well thought out op-ed I have linked below points out what the gun control crowd are getting wrong. They are steering their part of the debate in an unproductive direction. They are oblivious to the problems with society's first lines of defense, strict legal requirements that still fail sometimes to keep unsuitable persons from buying guns. They are hostile toward any use of that last line of defense a homicidal shooter must cross. If any of the potential victims is armed, you see, he (or she) turns from victim to a possible victor. The situation ceases to be a hopeless one. I'll take those odds.

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Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter. It Left Them Defenseless.


Amy Swearer /  /  /

. . . Court documents reveal that the suspected shooter was involuntarily committed to mental health facilities on six different occasions as a teenager, spent 97 days at a Utah facility for youth with behavioral health problems, and routinely had the police called on him by his mother. Under both Maryland and federal law, the involuntary commitments were enough to disqualify him from legally purchasing or possessing firearms. . . 
Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/28/existing-law-didnt-protect-victims-from-the-jacksonville-shooter-it-left-them-defenseless/ 


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