Another School Shooting, Another Chance To Claim Gun Owners Do Not Care

Because blaming the 72 million gun owners who had nothing to do with this incident is super helpful...

(For those living under a rock, there was a school shooting yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin at a very small private Christian school. Two victims died and six others were injured, two of those critically. The suspect was a 15 year old female student who killed herself before the cops arrived.)

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Let me just say this, absolutely no one wants kids getting shot & killed. No one!

Gun control proponents scream & blame gun owners for the deaths claiming we don't care. They started doing that the moment news of the incident broke, just like they always do.

Trust me, gun owners, gun rights advocates are parents too. We absolutely care.

The difference is we don't let our emotions rule us. We look at an incident & rather than saying "we have to try something" we ask "what could we have done that could have prevented that?"

Sadly, many times there is nothing the government could have done.

Kids can't legally buy guns. Kids can't legally buy ammo. Kids can't legally carry a concealed handgun. It is illegal to take guns to school. It is illegal to shoot and kill people.

The problem is not a lack of laws.

More often than not in the case of kids killing other kids at school, it is failures on the part of friends & family of the suspect to not address the problems they saw unfolding. Mental health issues often go unaddressed. In some incidents, parents have even allowed their deranged children to have access to guns.

In some cases, schools have refused to address discipline issues for fear of losing government funding. Often, anti-bullying policies backfire & punish the victim for defending themselves, leaving the bullying victim feeling helpless.

Schools are often soft targets and lack even the most basic of security measures.

Yes, there are in fact some things we can do, and none of them involve more gun laws.

Yesterday, as I listened to the Madison, WI police chief Shon Barnes give his initial press conference, something he said really pissed me off. When he was asked if the school had metal detectors, his response was (paraphrasing this from memory) “I don’t know, but schools should not need metal detectors. Schools should be a safe space.”

To be frank, that is the stupidest thing you can say. What is going to keep the school a safe space, some magical bubble that prevents bad things from happening? Metal detectors are one of many things that can be done to help make that school a safer space, but nothing is 100% fool proof.

The fact that gun control proponents refuse to consider any option other than gun laws should, at the very least, make you wonder what their goal really is.