Here we go again. Executive summary: asshole loser shoots three people dead for no reason other than, apparently, their race. Doubleplusungood: with an AR-15. Tripleplusungood: AR-15 had swastikas painted on it.
Before the Weepies and Gun-Fearing Wussies get going with “Ban all eeeevil assault rifles NOW!”, let’s just face a couple facts.
- Said scumbag was 21, so no age ban would have affected him.
- The AR-15 was legally purchased (as was the Glock the asshole was carrying).
- Had the AR-15 been banned, and assuming he couldn’t get his hands on one illegally, he could have used the (legally-purchased) Glock to do the same job.
- Had he preferred to use a non-AR-type semi-auto rifle instead of a Glock, he could have used one of these (which would never be included in an AR-style ban) because hunting rifles (as evidenced by the wooden stock):
…but which function identically to the AR-15.
Listen, I don’t want to downplay this tragedy. Society has no place for scumbags like this, and had I been there and in a position to intervene, I would have shot this little cunt in the back of the head without a second thought, before he had a chance to off himself.
Maybe his parents (with whom he was still living) could have done something ahead of time to prevent this, and maybe they couldn’t. There’s not much a parent can do with grown kids — they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do.
Sadly, freedom does not come without its abuse, and the Second Amendment is no different. But nothing we do can prevent them being abused, and that’s just the tragedy of it.
And just to be clear on the topic: there neither is nor could be any new law which would have prevented this. Random assholes will always find a way to do their evil deeds, and that’s the truth of it.
