Hee Hee! Good one. You are right. Stopping immigration won’t stop shootings. Some things you just can’t predict or prevent. That’s why the gun control falasy is so attractive to people—the desire to prevent anything bad from happening.
Even if there had been someone armed there (and I wish there were, or someone who would have tried to take him down with a chair, a well-aimed cell phone to the crotch . . .) who was armed, he could only have stopped the guy in the act, not prevented it.
As hard as it may seem, there are some things that just can’t be prevented except by luck or a hunch. There isn’t going to be a satisfactory answer for something like this, and that’s why people hope it was something concrete, like terrorism. People generally can’t accept the fact that evil wins its share of battles, regardless of what we do.
This will be politicized without a doubt. It’s an impossibility to identify and tranquilize every lunatic out there. We can’t read their minds, and even if we can predict some of their actions, we still have a Bill of Rights which prevents us from arresting “potential” criminals. The supreme tragedy is that, in the end, there’s probably no answer to “why”. Instead of blaming people, we, as a country, should rally around the families of those who died and are wounded. There’s no silver lining to something like this.
Since immigrants and illegal aliens have such high rates of homicide and gang membership (in my area Asian and Hispanic gangs are running amok), cutting down on both would save American lives.
We can only reduce the rates of homicide, but there is no way to eliminate it.