Opinion
California – -(AmmoLand.com)- Thursday’s murderous attack with a handgun by a disturbed 16-year-old student at a high school in Santa Clarita was terrible.
As a father, I grieve, as all good gun owners and humans do, whenever madmen or violent criminals kill innocents. As I think about how much I love my young sons, I cannot begin to imagine the grief the families are experiencing. It’s heartbreaking and terrifying.
But just minutes after the tragedy, before having all the facts and before the ink could dry on the police reports, the gun control zealots exploited the tragedy and started their usual rally cry: “this is why we need more gun control laws!”
Wait… what?
A 16-year-old cannot legally buy a handgun in California – or anywhere in the United States. That’s it. And yet this boy got his hands on one. No doubt we’ll find out how in the upcoming days. Regardless, law-abiding gun owners are (once again) being blamed for the law’s failures, which are all too predictable. Time and again, California’s over 800+ gun laws inevitably fail to make us safe.
I may be criticized for responding to this tragedy so soon, and for calling out the gun ban lobby because THEY immediately made the murders political. But the hypocritical and biassed media doesn’t want our side expressed. If we respond quickly and point of how gun laws failed we are accused of exploiting the tragedy. If we don’t respond quickly we are accused of being insensitive to the victims and conceding the issue. We can’t win with them.
Look, we may have different ideas about how to identify and help people with mental problems or why they occur in the first place. But blaming and shaming law-abiding gun owners and enacting more useless gun control laws in California doesn’t make us safer. As a former prosecutor, I often held the hands of gun violence victims outside the California courtrooms where gun laws and the legal system (I hesitate to call it the ”justice” system) failed them.
CRPA is fighting back against Gavin Newsom’s new gun laws that recently piled more burdensome restrictions on law-abiding gun owners but do nothing to make anyone safer or prevent murders like the tragedy in Santa Clarita. We’re fighting in the courts, at rallies, and anywhere else we can be to show that we are NOT the bad guys! And we are providing training to school and church leaders to prevent attacks.
Right now, we need to raise funds for our Rapid Response fund, to beef up our School and Church Shield programs, and to prepare for the attacks that are going to come from the Left in Sacramento and in court.
Can you help CRPA get this done? We fight best when you stand with us.
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I am sincerely hoping and praying for Santa Clarita
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Sorry, California, but as long as you keep electing Democrats you are contributing to your own demise under a Dictatorship.
Well of course the anti-gun crowd seized on the moment to shout for more gun control. Never mind that the shooter had to break some laws to obtain the gun, break some more to enter the event and break some more to assault with a deadly weapon, murder etc. No amount of laws will ever be able to stop evil. Gun control freaks will never accept that fact, and continue with the help of the MSM to prey upon the emotions of those foolish enough to believe it.
I’m pretty much convinced that Bill Cooper paid with his life for writing that book.
@USA, Couldn’t you just give us a three sentence synopsis? And maybe some of Bill Cooper’s creds why we should read his book.
Another failure of gun control.
“The Committee of Three Hundred”, by John Coleman (ex-MI6) is another really good read. Lots of information that most won’t want to see.
Most gun control people are people who can’t think for themselves, they have to have an agitator lead them around so they can bark the same way as the agitator. Nor can they be accused of having common sense, they wouldn’t be led around by the nose if they did. When it comes to intelligence, being led around by the nose by an agitator speaks for that. The quote “The laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes,” says a lot about the mindset of what is going on… Read more »
The left would rather more children die as fodder for their cause — gun control — than to simply harden the schools with a double door security system. Take the focus off the issue of a long drawn out gun control measure by any means necessary, and make about the left’s unwillingness to protect our schools with immediately available fixes, and you will have won this fight.
I read an article in the Sunday Star Ledger, edition for Sunday November 17,2019 under the Nation & World page about this tragic shooting, The article was picked up by the wire services, and it is about how detectives are probing to see how this teen got the gun he used. The article further mentions that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s dept. is working with the BATFE to determine whether the gun was made from parts purchased separately them assembled , law enforcement sources told the L A times that such weapons don’t have serial numbers and can be manufactured… Read more »
Laws that make everyone defenseless encourages violence. California and school shootings have proved this over and over again. Just so everyone knows these shootings only happen at PUBLIC schools covered by the No Gun Zone law. Private schools are not covered by the law, have their own armed security and there have been NO shootings. Repeal this law!