So much this…
The FSU shooting is a little closer to home than I’d like. I’m about an hour and a half from Tallahassee and have been there many times, including a few trips to the FSU campus.
And right now, a lot of people are using this awful tragedy to justify gun control and call for more of it, but that crumbles in the face of what happened.
See, Florida may be fairly pro-gun, especially when compared to states like California or New York, but it’s also what I call the most restrictive pro-gun state in the nation. They have more gun control laws on the books than most pro-gun states ever would.
And none of them did a thing to stop the alleged killer.
In fact, this shooting is actually proof that gun control doesn’t stop these things from happening.
Full article, HERE from Town Hall.
Every law Florida has in place, even though it is a CCW state, did not prevent the tragedy at FSU.
Why???
Simple…because criminals will not obey laws.
And to my mind, one of the most egregious laws is the gun free zone law. This prevents licensed conceal carriers from carrying in those zones, preventing a quick response to a criminal bent on killing someone(s).
The Luby’s shooting in KiIleen HERE, and Suzanna Hupp’s campaign, along with George Bush becoming governor was what FINALLY got Texas to pass CCW.
Sadly, Texas has gun free zones too…
Funny how it’s always the ‘gun’ that gets the press, and the left/Dems/et al love dancing in the blood of the victims while they spout the ‘evils’ of guns…but you never hear them talk about the criminals that commit the crimes- Witness the lengths the groups in Tenn have gone to keep the writings/manifesto of The Covenant School in Nashville in 2023, HERE.
Or how often the ethnicity of the shooter plays into the amount of ‘coverage’ a story gets…
How many times have we heard “They were on (insert law enforcement agency here) radar… AFTER the shooting…
I don’t have a good answer, but Tom’s article just reenforced my belief that I should carry every day, and NOT visit gun free zones. Which is why I haven’t been to a movie theater in years, no great loss, and I’ve saved a bunch of money, too!
It also plays into places I will or won’t visit, including entire states and any blue city. I also try to not be where people are doing stupid things, and I’m too old to stay up long enough to get in trouble after midnight either.
Just putting this out here for thought. Who knows, maybe somebody will read this and rethink some things they are doing or not doing and modify their behavior… or not…
Hey Old NFO,
I have noticed..if the shooter is a straight white male, that will dominate the news cycle because *eevil patriarchy* if the shooter is a non white male or transgender, the gun gets blamed and the shooter ID vanished faster than a bag of dope down the crapper during a police raid.
You’re preaching to the choir, I’m afraid… but you are absolutely correct. What’s always fascinated me about the squishy liberal types (I’m not taking about the power-hungry Socialist types here — The Squad and Bernie and Vladimir and Zelensky and Xi and the like — that’s quite different) is their astonishing capability to completely overlook reaiity, not just for guns, but crime in general and even more widely, poverty, energy supply, what have you. Really amazing…
One thing in Texas that disappoints me is the strictness of their gun free zones.
Many states have little or no penalty for violating it- in Texas it’s a felony with large penalties.
I assume this was a “compromise” to get the legislation through.
I’m curious, have you see data on how much they are actually enforced? As in, how often complaints are made and how often charges are brought, and how many convictions actually result from those complaints?
When I lived in Ohio, most prosecutors wouldn’t even listen to complaints unless it was a school or courthouse…
It will be interesting to hear what the speakers at the firearms law seminar this coming Friday in Atlanta have to say about this event in Florida – probably much the same as your thoughts. I’ll also be interested in getting an update on the court fights regarding 2A rights.
From published reports, it seems the kids life was a train wreck tug of war between his divorced parents. How he wasn’t on someone’s radar is puzzling.
Bob- Yep!
Ian- Agreed!
Jon- That it was. And as far as ‘I’ know it is enforced.
Tom- You and me both!
Mike- I’m betting he was on multiple ‘radars’…
I ignore “gun free zones”. Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.
Any business that posts no guns will never have my business.
Kids mother was/is a sheriff deputy. He used her gun. Yeah, let’s disarm all law enforcement . . . That’ll stop this.