The media wants to convince America’s > 100 million law-abiding gun owners that they're to blame for murders. They need to stop blaming gun owners for criminal acts and the mentally ill that murder.
The other is the criminal culture that thrives in the places where government restricts gun rights.
How about the gun culture on the south and west sides of Chicago? Why do we seldom hear the liberals decry the gun violence in our ghettos? Why do we seldom hear them condemn the youth gangs who have laid waste to large sections of many major cities?
does anyone care, that far more innocents are killed by the youth gangs in Chicago and other cities, than get killed by school shootings?
Does anyone care, that sadly, passing more and more laws will not stop the criminal element, which by definition don’t obey laws?
Does anyone care, that this shooter, and others, were already in violation of numerous gun laws even before they started their shooting rampages?
As long as the political/media class keep clinging to their 1960s era anti gun jihad, nothing will be done. The problem is trying to “mainstream” the dangerously mentally ill. Currently the political/media class is busy arguing over which band aid to put on a sucking chest wound
Like the point I made to someone on FB: law abiding persons in places like Vermont, Texas, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Arizona, and elsewhere like that live under very casual firearms laws (particularly Vermont) and simply are not committing crimes and certainly not violent ones. The violent criminals, be it in Chicago, DC, Detroit, Cleveland, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta, New York City, etc are by their very nature as criminals committing the violent offences regardless of how strict (particularly DC, Chicago, and New York) the firearms laws are.
The media very seldom if ever discuss the above and also seldom discuss what does takes place in the inner city areas like corrupt political systems, drug abuse, illiteracy, and generations of welfare mothers and poverty. Confronting these things would far more effectively deal with the violent criminal culture in places ranging from New York City and DC to Atlanta and New Orleans than the silly gesture politics of ineffective gun control.
THE PLAN
Step 1 - Take guns away from law abiding gun owners to stop criminals
Step 2 - Take cars away from sober people to stop drunk drivers
Step 3 - Take prescription medications away from sick people to stop drug abusers
As much as some don’t want to acknowledge, there are 2 gun “cultures” : black vs white.