Guns don’t kill people, people kill people

American Thinker.com ^ | October 4, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

[Kaslin]

One of the implied promises behind the Democrats’ endless (and escalating) efforts to destroy the Second Amendment and disarm Americans is the promise that murder will become a thing of the past—and, if not all murders, at least mass murders, involving more than one victim. However, in Florida, one man managed to kill three people with a baseball bat and a knife, as well as seriously injured another victim. The problem wasn’t the weapons; it was that a man angry after a fight with his supervisor started killing innocents with the weapons he had at hand.

If you look at the picture of Shaun Runyon that the Polk County Sheriff’s Office released, he looks like a nice man: Well-groomed, with graying, dark, curly hair, sparkling eyes, and an open smile. The construction workers and their families sharing a dwelling with him never knew that he “reportedly has a prior criminal history that includes out of state charges of strangulation, endangering welfare of a child, terroristic threats, DUI and more.”

Runyon’s criminal history may explain why, when he decided to kill, he didn’t have a gun. Instead, after a fight with his supervisor at the construction site, he returned to the home he shared with seven people (fellow construction workers and their families, including at least one child) and, with a knife and a bat, started slaughtering people:

[systemjim]

You know WHY they want to take your guns? It is because they are planning to do things you would shoot them for.

[glimmerman70]

This happened not to far from me. Was very strange that he was able to kill and injure so many without them waking up and taking him down. He even chased someone down the road with the bat.