Van Hollen says changing gun law unnecessary after Brookfield shooting(WI)

MADISON - The Wisconsin Attorney General says there is no need to change gun laws because of the killing spree at a spa in Brookfield this past week.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says changing the law would be too hard to enforce.

"Who is to draw the line between, 'I sold you a firearm, I loaned you a firearm, I've given you a firearm, you've taken the firearm from me?' " asked Van Hollen.

"Not to mention, you could try to close every presumed loophole you can, and people who want to do these things are going to find a way to do it."

The concept that the government could or should only “allow” certain people to buy guns stands the very concept of American jurisprudence on its head. It presumes that the government knows all, controls all, and should be doing so. It is wrong and ineffective. It is the opposite of preventing criminals from possessing guns.

It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns. This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.

The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.

If you bother to read the news stories on this shooting, you will see that this terrible tragedy happened because the local cops were totally incompetent and/or derelict in their duty.

The shooter had committed several very serious breech of the peace incidents and should have been jailed.

The cops knocked on the door in one instance, and walked away because he would not answer it.

Passing another gun law would have made no difference, but even so there were many serious warning signs that he was dangerous.

All ignored by the cops.

This was not a failure of the laws, it was a failure on the part of the cops and someone should be fired for it.

I am sure they will pay a heavy civil court settlement.

If you bother to read the news stories on this shooting, you will see that this terrible tragedy happened because the local cops were totally incompetent and/or derelict in their duty.

No, though the cops were incompetent, it happened because there actually are people evil enough to kill other people in this world.

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