The timing is good for them because emotions are still raw over their attempted exploitation of the Newtown shootings and because there weren’t as many killed and they weren’t the proper kind of victims or something..
But one thing occurred to me in regards to this latest ‘serious crisis’
{Y’all will have to excuse whilst I wander a little off-topic}
Why is it that these ‘serious crisis’ are always an opportunity for the gun grabbers to push their civilian disarmament agenda?
But similar stories that point to the positive uses of firearms never seem to be a rallying point push back on people control?
We’ve all seen the reports of law-abiding citizens using guns to save lives and stop crimes – WHY CAN’T WE USE THOSE REPORTS TO PUSH BACK ON PEOPLE CONTROL? (sorry for ‘yelling’ but this is starting to really tick me off)
Those of us on the Pro-liberty side of the equation have to sit back and wait for the inevitable calls for People control after each mass shooting and the accompanying incremental lose of more freedom with incident.
Well, I say we should push back against this tyranny from the gun-grabbers.
We should be out that pushing for the elimination of previous infringements on our right of self-defense (from tyrants and criminals) with each incident that shows that guns saves lives!
If an innocent citizen saves lives or stops a crime with a gun, we should be touting that as a reason to loosen restrictions on guns.
I’m sick and tired of this constant grinding away at our freedom from the authoritarian states from the Left with each ‘crisis’ they exploit – it’s time we push back on our own.
The other can of worms the Left doesn’t want to open is that this guy was reportedly mentally ill and thus a “prohibited person” under both Federal and California law. The law was supposed to “prevent” him from getting the guns in the first place. Obviously, it didn’t. Of course, we know that it couldn’t have done so anyway; laws are reactive, not proactive. But the Left advertises their gun laws as preventative measures. They really don’t want to explore stories that demonstrate the failures of the policies they pushed that couldn’t have worked anyway.
The gun used was banned in 1989.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberti-Roos_Assault_Weapons_Control_Act_of_1989
The term assault weapon means the following designated semiautomatic firearms as defined by Penal Code section 30510:
(a) All of the following specified rifles:
(1) All AK series including, but not limited to, the models identified as follows:
(A) Made in China AK, AKM, AKS, AK47, AK47S, 56, 56S, 84S, and 86S.
(B) Norinco 56, 56S, 84S, and 86S.
(C) Poly Technologies AKS and AK47.
(D) MAADI AK47 and ARM.
(2) IMI UZI and Galil.
(3) Beretta AR-70.
(4) CETME Sporter.
(5) Colt AR-15 series.
He was YET ANOTHER crazy person who got a gun. Crazy!