One has to wonder if this shooting would have occurred or even been planned if it were known other guns would be present. Our society disarms citizens to allow mad dogs free reign. The media joked when Florida right to carry went into effect, calling it the “gunshine” state. But with reductions in crime and no “Wild West shootouts as predicted, other states followed suit. It’s time for New Jersey and other states to recognize that more guns actually means less crime and less fatalities in the case of mass shootings.
You're making a common mistake in assuming that NJ politicians want to pass gun control to reduce crime. They couldn't care less about crime. They know that guns don't cause crime. Their goal is and always has been to disarm the law abiding populace so as to ensure that there can be no effective resistance to the most extreme tyranny. They aren't stupid or misguided. They are simply evil.
When Democrats like Pelosi, Schumer, the turd, etc. look at Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia, they aren't horrified by what the government did to their citizens. They think to themselves - "Wow wouldn't it be great if I could exert that level of control of the little people here." Speak a dissident thought and go to jail or worse. It's what every Democrat politician dreams of for the USA. And any fool who thinks "It can't happen here." makes that false assumption that somehow human nature is different in the USA than it is in other countries. Not true.